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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2002
Jorge M. Fernandes, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Mohammad A. Khan, San Jose, CA (US);
Kerry D. Brown, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Jorge M. Fernandes, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Mohammad A. Khan, San Jose, CA (US);
Kerry D. Brown, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
VIVOtech, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An adaptor allows a magnetic stripe card reader to receive information from other media such as wireless proximity chip cards while maintaining the ability to receive a magnetic stripe card. In accordance with one embodiment, the adaptor includes a simulacrum structure of sufficiently narrow width to fit substantially permanently within the slot of the magnetic stripe reading device, while providing sufficient room for a magnetic stripe card to also be concurrently accommodated within the slot and read by the reader head. The simulacrum structure may be in electronic communication with one or more transceivers of wireless communications such as RF and IR.