Campus Cards, College and University Identification and Security

JSA receives patent on web-revalue technology as talks of license fees spread through campus card community

Friday, March 17, 2006


by Chris Corum, Executive Editor, AVISIAN Publications

A newly-issued patent covering the movement of funds between accounts via the web is hitting close to home with campus card systems. No surprise as the patent was originally conceived to cover these transfers from a bank account to a campus card account.

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