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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2011
Amish Rajesh Babu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jim Mckelvey, Pensacola, CA (US);
Sam Wen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jack Dorsey, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amish Rajesh Babu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jim McKelvey, Pensacola, CA (US);
Sam Wen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jack Dorsey, San Francisco, CA (US);
Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A card reader device is provided with a housing having a slot for swiping a magnetic stripe of a card to complete a financial transaction between a buyer and seller. A read head is in the housing reads data stored on the magnetic stripe and produces a signal indicative of data stored on the magnetic stripe. An output jack is adapted to be inserted into a microphone input associated with a mobile device for provides the signal indicative of data stored on the magnetic stripe to the mobile device. A sourcing power device couples to an audio jack of the mobile device and sources power from the mobile device through the audio jack.