Patent ID: 7243842

Claim:
A computer system for generating a representation of an image-customized computer-based value-bearing item, said computer system comprising: a first set of computer program instructions, that when executed by a first computer, cause the first computer to generate a client request for generic value-bearing item indicia data; a second set of computer program instructions, that when executed by a second computer, cause the computer to receive the client request for generic value-bearing item indicia data, and generate a set of generic computer-based value-bearing item indicia data, wherein said set of generic computer-based value-bearing item indicia data comprises a digital signature; a third set of computer program instructions, that when executed by the first computer, cause the first computer to receive the set of generic computer-based value-bearing item indicia data; and a fourth set of computer program instructions, that when executed by the first computer, cause the first computer to generate a set of image-customized computer-based value-bearing item indicia data for an image-customized value-bearing item, wherein said set of image-customized computer-based value-bearing item indicia data is generated using a subset of the set of generic computer-based value-bearing item indicia data.