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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2011
Jim Mckelvey, Pensacola, FL (US);
Jim McKelvey, Pensacola, FL (US);
Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An integrated read head system includes a mobile device with an audio jack and at least one microphone input port. A read head is physically coupled to the mobile device. The read head has a slot for swiping a magnetic stripe of a financial transaction card to enable a financial transaction between a buyer and seller. The read head reads data on the magnetic stripe and produces a signal indicative of data stored on the magnetic stripe. The read head has an output jack that physically connects the read head to at least one of the audio jack or microphone port of the mobile device. The read head provides the signal to the mobile device. The signal is decoded at the mobile device. The decoding includes determining pulses in the signal and converting at least some of the pulses to characters.