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| Summary / Description | The S7SC Customer Activated Smart Card PIN Pad is designed to read information from both today's generation of credit and debit cards, which use a magnetic stripe to store information, and the burgeoning category of smart cards, which use a microchip to store data. |
| Type of Prior Art | Online Publication |
| URL | http://findarticles.com/p/artic... |
| Author/Creator | Business Wire |
| Title | Hypercom releases customer activated Smart Card/magnetic card reader PIN Pad; Easy-to-use peripheral |
| Publication Date | November 30, 1994 |
| Publisher | Business Wire |
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| Notes | While the disclosed invention does not pertain to gaming systems, it appears to be the same exact technology. |
Excerpt Hypercom Inc., a leading U.S.-based manufacturer of point-of-sale (POS) products, Wednesday announced the availability of its S7SC, a Secure Smart Card Reader/PIN Pad that supports both microcontroller and memory IC cards, as well as magnetic stripe encoded credit and debit cards.The S7SC Customer Activated Smart Card PIN Pad is designed to read information from both today's generation of credit and debit cards, which use a magnetic stripe to store information, and the burgeoning category of smart cards, which use a microchip to store data. The S7SC fulfills another of Hypercom's commitments made to the growing number of organizations who have purchased T7 terminals during the last three years. We met our obligation to manufacture a smart card reading peripheral that would work with both existing T7 terminals and new models in the series. |
A method of processing a user data card comprising: determining that a user data card comprising a non-compatible smart card has been entered into a card reader; obtaining a user identifier from a magnetic stripe of the user data card; and processing the user identifier to obtain data from a user record to enable further processing in respect of the user data card.
| Relevance | The S7SC is capable of reading the "non-compatible" magnetic stripe of a card to identify a user. |
A method of processing user transactions comprising: conducting transactions for a user by retrieving data from a user record using a user identifier obtained from a magnetic stripe of a hybrid data card while the user has a hybrid data card comprising a non-compatible smart card; and switching to processing from a compatible smart card once it is detected that a user has a user data card comprising a valid smart card.
| Relevance | The S7SC is a hybrid card reader that may read both integrated circuits (it is a smart card) and magnetic stripes. |
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