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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 23, 1996
Scott R Novis, Tempe, AZ (US);
William E Carns, Forest Lakes, AZ (US);
Karen E Jachimowicz, Laveen, AZ (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A smart card device (10) including a portable housing (11) with a viewing aperture (25) and a virtual image display (30) positioned to provide an image at the aperture (25) of information contained on a smart card (13) as well as transactions processed in response to data transmitted by a transceiver (17) between a host database (96) and the smart card device (10). A sensor (15) in the housing (11) constructed to have the smart card (13) with data stored thereon positioned adjacent thereto in data sensing juxtaposition and electronics (16) mounted in the housing (11) and connected to the sensor (15) for processing data between the host database (96) and the smart card device (10), the electronics (16) further connected to the sensing structure (15) for reading and writing data thereto, the communications transceiver (17) for transmitting and receiving data between the smart card device (10) and the host database (96), and the virtual image display (30) for supplying image data.