| US 7,593,896 B1 | ||
| Credit card system and method | ||
| Daniel I. Flitcroft, Sandycove (Ireland); and Graham O'Donnell, Sandycove (Ireland) | ||
| Assigned to Orbis Patents Ltd., County Dublin (Ireland) | ||
| Filed on Oct. 19, 2000, as Appl. No. 9/691,175. | ||
| Application 09/691175 is a division of application No. 09/235836, filed on Jan. 22, 1999, granted, now 6,636,833. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/099614, filed on Sep. 09, 1998. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/098175, filed on Aug. 26, 1998. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/092500, filed on Jul. 13, 1998. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. S980223 (IE), filed on Mar. 25, 1998; application No. S980346 (IE), filed on May 07, 1998; and application No. S980458 (IE), filed on Jun. 15, 1998. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06Q 40/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 705—39 [705/38; 705/36; 705/35] | 34 Claims |
| 1. A method for implementing a limited-use credit card system, the method comprising:
allocating in a computer system a limited-use credit card number constituting a different number than a customer account number
of a user and functioning as an authorized substitute for the customer account number;
associating in the computer system the limited-use credit card number with the customer account number and a set of conditions
defined by the user, wherein the customer account number is not limited to said user defined set of conditions;
issuing the limited-use credit card number;
detecting in the computer system a transaction using the limited-use credit card number;
processing in the computer system the transaction in accordance with the set of conditions associated with limited-use credit
card number;
processing in the computer system the transaction against the customer account number; and
authorizing or not authorizing the transaction based on a result of said processing of both the limited-use credit card number
and the customer account number in the computer system.
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