US 6,981,646 B2
Chip embedded trading card, recording and/or reproducing apparatus therefor, and message building method
Kang-hun Lee, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Wan-sun Hong, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); and Kyung-woo Ko, Incheon Metropolitan (Korea, Republic of)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si (Korea, Republic of)
Filed on May 31, 2001, as Appl. No. 9/867,697.
Claims priority of application No. 2000-31837 (KR), filed on Jun. 09, 2000.
Prior Publication US 2002/0015027 A1, Feb. 07, 2002
Int. Cl. G06K 7/10 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 235—486 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A trading card communicating with a recording and/or reproducing unit to receive messages from a subject printed on the card, the trading card comprising:
a data storage unit receiving a recording command from the recording and/or reproducing unit to record and store the subject-related data stored in the recording and/or reproducing unit from the subject; and
a housing unit containing and protecting the data storage unit, wherein the housing unit comprises a serial number identifying the trading card, and the messages are based on recorded user-related information and are built by implementing the user-related data into the subject-related data.