Automated card customization machine

US7896241B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SANDISK IL LTD. · IL

Inventors

• Eyal Bychkov · Hod HaSharon, IL
• Yohan Cohen · Hod HaSharon, IL
• Itzhak Pomerantz · Kfar Sava, IL
• Avraham Meir · Rishon LeZion, IL

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 2, 2007
• Grant date: Mar 1, 2011
• Expiry date: Jan 2, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F17/26
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A card vending machine includes a storage area, wherein each of a plurality of memory cards to be issued by a respective one of at least two different issuers are stored. A security mechanism conditions access of each issuer to only a respective portion of the storage area upon authorization of this issuer. An interface mechanism is operated by a user to define a purchasing transaction and a controller is operative, in accordance with the interface mechanism, to customize a memory card at least in part according to the purchasing transaction.