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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2015
Cubic Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Philip B. Dixon, San Diego, CA (US);
Timothy Cook, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Pradip Mistry, San Diego, CA (US);
Janet Koenig, Cardiff by the Sea, CA (US);
David L. deKozan, San Diego, CA (US);
CUBIC CORPORATION, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for concurrent distribution of reloadable prepaid cards and enablement of the reloadable prepaid cards for use at access control points of a transit system. Techniques of enabling of the reloadable prepaid cards for use at access control points of the transit system can include obtaining user information, payment, and communicating card information to a card issuer for activation of the first reloadable prepaid card. A transit user account for managing transactional information of the user of the transit system is also created, reloadable prepaid card is enabled for use as fare media at access control points of the transit system. Thus, once distributed, the prepaid reloadable cards may be used as fare media in the transit system as payment for transit fare, as well as for purchases at locations outside the transit system.