US Patent:
20060261154, Nov 23, 2006
Inventors:
Steven Arthur - Castle Rock CO, US
Bret Esslinger - Weston FL, US
Assignee:
First Data Corporation - Englewood CO
International Classification:
G06K 5/00
Abstract:
According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of activating a plurality of gift cards utilizes a package of multiple presentation instruments. Each presentation instrument includes a unique presentation instrument identifier used to associate funds with the presentation instrument. Also, the package includes a package identifier. In one step, the package identifier is read from the package and is transmitted over an electronic network to a host computer system which evaluates the package identifier to determine whether the package identifier is valid. If so, each of the presentation instruments in the package is activated for a certain activation amount.