EP 1145165 A3 20020206 - SUPPLYING GREETING CARDS AND GIFT CARDS OVER A GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORK
Title (en)
SUPPLYING GREETING CARDS AND GIFT CARDS OVER A GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORK
Title (de)
AUSGEBEN VON GRUSSKARTEN UND GESCHENKKARTEN ÜBER EIN WELTWEITES COMPUTER-NETZWERK
Title (fr)
ACHEMINEMENT DE CARTES DE VOEUX ET DE CARTES-PRIMES A TRAVERS UN RESEAU INFORMATIQUE MONDIAL
Publication
Application
Priority
- US 0012036 W 20000504
- US 31010499 A 19990512
- US 41987499 A 19991015
Abstract (en)
[origin: WO0070517A2] A wide range (e.g. global) computer network provides for the ordering of greeting cards from a plurality of remote terminals each including a monitor and selector. When access to a central server is obtained using the remote terminals, options for selection by the accessing terminals are displayed on the terminal monitors including greeting card image, message, card personalization, recipient address, payment, gift card, and like options. In response to selections made by the accessing terminal a plurality of multi-color physical greeting cards, with imaged graphics and text, are printed at a central imaging facility and the greeting cards are physically transmitted (e.g. mailed) to the appropriate respective recipient addresses that were selected. Production of the greeting card, and a selected accompanying gift card, is preferably made utilizing a continuous web of paper, or sheet, by merging variable templates with variable text data and ripped graphic images, in a continuous process in which layouts, graphic images, and texts change independently from card to card as the plurality of cards are sequentially produced in the same continuous process. The gift cards may be paper, plastic, personalized, and/or with magnetic strip and RF technology encoded data/information, typically with one or both faces of a paper card laminated with transparent plastic.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
B42D 15/02 (2006.01); B42D 15/10 (2006.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01); G07B 1/00 (2006.01); G07G 1/12 (2006.01); G07G 1/14 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP)
G06Q 30/06 (2013.01)
Citation (search report)
See references of WO 0070517A2
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 0070517 A2 20001123; WO 0070517 A8 20011108; AU 4695600 A 20001205; BR 0006125 A 20010327; CA 2337528 A1 20001123; EP 1145165 A2 20011017; EP 1145165 A3 20020206; JP 2003530615 A 20031014
DOCDB simple family (application)
US 0012036 W 20000504; AU 4695600 A 20000504; BR 0006125 A 20000504; CA 2337528 A 20000504; EP 00928774 A 20000504; JP 2000618890 A 20000504