Patent ID: 7058603

Claim:
A transaction system including at least one terminal and at least one card-type server which form a communication network for registering an impersonal card-identifier at the server and issue an impersonal card at the terminal, said system for executing a card-type registration, comprising: (a) means to receive an unissued card-type in the terminal; (b) means to originate an impersonal card-identifier in the terminal; (c) means to write an encrypted registration code on the unissued card-type in the terminal; (d) means to transmit the impersonal card-identifier to a card-type server; (e) means to create a discrete datafile record to register the impersonal card-identifier in the database of the card-type server; and (f) means to transmit an instruction from the server to authorize the card-type transaction at the terminal.