Patent ID: 7980479

Claim:
A data storage card having an optical data storage region and a magnetic data storage region, and formed to cooperatively engage with a drive mechanism of a magnetic stripe reader and with a rotatable drive mechanism of an optical data reader, the card comprising: a card body defining first and second opposed generally planar surfaces; an aperture formed in the card body; an annular optical data region centered on the aperture and disposed on or readable from one of the first and second surfaces of the card body; a magnetic linear data region disposed on one of the first and second surfaces; and a unitary insert structure fabricated of an elastic material, said unitary insert structure disposed in said aperture and configured to engage with a rotatable drive mechanism of the optical data reader in an optical data reading mode, and to engage with the drive mechanism of the magnetic stripe reader in a magnetic data reading mode, said insert structure deformable in a direction transverse to the first and second opposed generally planar surfaces, said deformation of the insert structure in response to engagement of the insert structure with the rotatable drive mechanism of the optical data reader, the insert structure configured to resume or conform to a generally planar condition with the card body after disengagement of the insert structure from the rotatable drive mechanism of the optical data reader.