
US Patent No: 6,944,621
Number of patents in Portfolio can not be more than 2000
System, method and article of manufacture for updating content stored on a portable storage medium
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Sep 13, 2005
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Jan 3, 2000
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09/476,190
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Abstract
A system, method, and article of manufacture is provided for updating content stored on a portable storage medium. Upon input of a portable storage medium into a machine by a user, the content stored on the portable storage medium is read. After reading the content of the portable storage medium, a separate storage medium is accessed and content is received therefrom. The content from the separate storage medium is an update of the content of the portable storage medium. This content of the separate storage medium is then displayed.
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