Techniques for providing an electronic representation of a card

摘要

Techniques for making electronic cards that can be displayed on a mobile phone. The techniques permit making an electronic card based on an arbitrary SMS message and making an electronic card (eCard) that corresponds to a pre-existing non-electronic privilege card such as a loyalty card. In the latter case, the system on which the card is being made obtains information about the user and the issuer and uses the information to determine whether to issue the eCard and also to make use validity information which is associated with the card and is used to determine the validity of the card as it is used.

主权项

1. A method of making an electronic version of a previously-issued non-electronic version of a privilege card for a user having a device, the previously-issued non-electronic version of the privilege card having been issued with a card identifier by a card issuer and the method comprising the steps, performed in a processor remote from the user's device and not operated by the card issuer, of:
receiving, from the user and not via the card issuer, issue validation information at the processor remote from the user's device for the electronic version including at least the card identifier for the previously-issued non-electronic version of the privilege card; using the issue validation information and additional information of the card issuer to determine whether the electronic version of the previously-issued non-electronic version of the privilege card should issue; and on validation, making the electronic version of the previously-issued non-electronic version of privilege card available through the user's device.