Patent ID: 7555467

Claim:
A method of distributing a Unit of Information of Value (UIV) from a remote data center having a processor to an information of value processing device having a unique ID and a plurality of UIV memory locations, each UIV memory location having a memory slot identifier at a user location comprising: receiving a UIV request at the remote data center processor, wherein the UIV request includes an available memory slot identifier; obtaining an available memory slot identifier from a data center UIV state table associated with the information of value processing device using the processor; determining a UIV ID including the unique device ID and the available memory slot identifier using the processor; generating a unique UIV in response to the UIV request including UIV data, the UIV ID and a digital signature of at least the UIV data and the UIV ID using the processor, assigning an initial use state to the unique UIV using the processor; sending the unique UIV in response to the UIV request without determining if the UIV request is a duplicate request using the processor; verifying that the UIV request corresponds to an expected memory slot identifier using the processor; and; updating the data center UIV state table associated with the unique UIV to reflect the initial use state using the processor.