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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2005
David B. Sutton, Monroe, MI (US);
Douglas E. Blasiman, Bowling Green, OH (US);
David B. Sutton, Monroe, MI (US);
Douglas E. Blasiman, Bowling Green, OH (US);
PrivaCash, Inc., Monroe, MI (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for transacting a purchase using a non-personalized purchase card which is distributed to a number of purchase card outlet each purchase card being a bearer instrument having a non-personalized card holder name without any perspective card holder data thereon. The card is sold at the purchase card outlet and the purchase cardholder can use the card to make a purchase at an unrelated retailer with the transaction cleared over a network connection using a software implemented application that transmits the card issuer without transmitting any user specific information.