FIELD: methods and devices for executing financial transactions.
SUBSTANCE: device has multifunction card and portable terminal; card has programmable memory and magnetic strip thereon. Programmable memory is used to save characters corresponding to account data entered in memory by terminal that reads magnetic strip data out of plurality of commonly used magnetic-strip cards. Programmable memory also has data on value of cash resources and also instructions, prompting messages, and icons submitted in transactions being executed. Methods describing operation of device are given in description of invention.
EFFECT: enlarged functional capabilities.
39 cl, 95 dwg
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Dates
2004-07-10—Published
1999-03-17—Filed