Electronic Wallet for Multi-Card Fund Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for managing stored-value cards lack a convenient and user-friendly approach for consumers to access and manage funds across multiple reloadable and reload cards, especially in redeeming promotions and transferring funds between cards.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system for secure digital fund management, which establishes a user account for storing value, allows association of multiple value products, and enables the use of funds from one value product in single or multiple transactions, with a specially programmed server managing user accounts and facilitating transactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If current systems for managing stored-value cards are used, then basic transaction processing is maintained, but consumer convenience and ease of managing funds across multiple cards deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an electronic wallet as an intermediary layer between consumers and multiple stored-value cards. The electronic wallet stores account information, card numbers, and security codes for multiple cards, allowing consumers to manage all cards through a single interface. This mediator handles the complexity of coordinating funds across multiple cards while presenting a simplified user experience.
Solution Approach 2:
The electronic wallet system provides universal functionality for managing diverse types of stored-value cards (gift cards, loyalty cards, prepaid cards) through a single platform. It enables multiple operations including fund transfers between cards, balance inquiries, transaction history access, and promotion redemption across different card types, eliminating the need for separate management systems for each card.
2Productivity
If manual management of multiple stored-value cards is used, then individual card control is maintained, but time efficiency and productivity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically tracking balances, monitoring transaction statuses, and pre-processing fund transfers across multiple cards before the consumer needs to access the information. When a consumer initiates a fund transfer, the system has already prepared the necessary data and can execute the transfer immediately without manual intervention for each card.
Solution Approach 2:
The electronic wallet enables self-service functionality where the system automatically manages fund allocations, transfers, and tracking across multiple cards without requiring consumer intervention. The system autonomously handles balance reconciliations, transaction routing, and promotion applications, significantly reducing the time consumers would otherwise spend manually managing each card.
3Adaptability or versatility
If traditional card redemption systems are used, then basic redemption functionality is maintained, but flexibility in redeeming promotions and transferring funds deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic wallet provides dynamic fund management where consumers can flexibly allocate funds between multiple cards based on real-time needs. The system dynamically routes transfers, applies promotions, and adjusts fund allocations across cards. Consumers can initiate transfers at any time, and the system adapts the routing and execution based on current balances, card eligibility, and promotional opportunities, rather than following rigid predetermined rules.
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AI summary
System and methods for managing value products such as stored value cards are provided. A computer-implemented system comprising: a first value product, wherein a first value product package identifier requires that all of the first value product's digital funds be redeemed in a single transaction; a second value product; and a specially programmed computer server, the methods and system allowing a user to use a portion of the first value product's digital funds in a first transaction and a remainder of the first value product's digital funds in one or more subsequent transactions.