Multiple-service card system
CA 2397722 C · Owner: Fitzmaurice, Mary Ann · Inventors: Nanton, Jason; Fitzmaurice, Mary Ann; Freud, Aliza
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A system and method for providing a multiple-service card is disclosed. As a result, a card member (108) is provided with a single card that serves as both a credit card and a club membership card for access to the service partner's exclusive club. This multiple-service card may have the traditional credit card data on one side of the card, including for example, the account number, name of the account holder and the expiration date. The other side of the card may include a magnetic stripe that contains the account information in machine readable form as well as membership information suitable to permit entry into a service partner's facility. In the system the primary party and , …
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- Filed January 18, 2001 and granted May 20, 2014. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 18, 2021.
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