Patent ID: 7770788

Claim:
A method for providing a card to a recipient, said method comprising: creating an initial electronic card destined for a recipient; identifying a plurality of potential signers of the electronic card; transmitting the electronic card to each of the potential signers; receiving personal messages for the electronic card from a plurality of the potential signers; determining, by a server machine, whether any of the plurality of the potential signers have provided a gift for the recipient, the gift being a donation to a charitable organization; modifying, by the server machine, the electronic card to include (i) the personal messages and (ii) indicators identifying those of the potential signers that have been determined to have provided gifts; providing the modified electronic card, or a printed version thereof, to the recipient, whereby the recipient is provided with the personal messages as well as the indicators identifying those of the potential signers that have been determined to have provided gifts; and providing a donation receipt to the signers that have made a donation.