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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2013
Valuelink, Llc, Greenwood Village, CO (US);
Douglas P. Dwyre, Castle Rock, CO (US);
Steven E. Arthur, Castle Rock, CO (US);
Christopher L. Toomer, Parker, CO (US);
Kenneth Algiene, Greenwood Village, CO (US);
VALUELINK, LLC, Greenwood Village, CO (US);
Abstract
According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of activating a plurality of disparate stored value accounts utilizes a set of multiple presentation instruments redeemable at different merchants. Each presentation instrument includes a unique presentation instrument identifier used to associate value with the presentation instrument. Also, the set includes a set identifier, which may be included on a package that secures the presentation instruments together. In one embodiment, the set identifier is received over an electronic network, a list of the presentation instruments in the set is accessed from a computer database, and each of the presentation instruments is activated.