Magnet information cards

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1995-05-31

1997-05-06

Hajec, Donald T.

Registers

Coded record sensors

Particular sensor structure

235493, G06K 708, G06K 1906

Patent

active

056273576

ABSTRACT:
Magnetic cards are provided with unique card signatures which include a number of bits, some of which have intermediate magnetic levels. As a result a card reader allocates randomly either a one or a zero to the intermediate level bits. The random allocation provides a test for the genuineness of the card. The intermediate level bits are formed as a result of inherent inconsistencies in the characteristic of a normal magnetic stripe along its length. It is not possible therefore to readily, if at all, reproduce patterns of intermediate level bits in a duplicate because the stripe on the duplicate will have differently arranged inconsistencies along its length.

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