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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:
Nov. 06, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2004
Applicant:
Jai Shin, Brentwood, MD (US);
Inventor:
Jai Shin, Brentwood, MD (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
To personalize a value-bearing instrument, such as a gift card (), a user-operated station () is provided. The user provides funds to the gift card () via a fund receiving module (). The user then selects a set of merchants for which the funds are to be used via a user-interface. The user then authors a graphic arrangement on a template () presented on a display () of the user interface. When the graphic arrangement is to the user's liking, it is printed on an indicia carrier () by an instrument printer (). The completed gift card is dispensed to the user via an instrument dispenser ().