Apple patent involves gift card carriers
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
May 22, 2008 at 7:02am
An Apple patent (number 20080116088) for gift card carriers has appeared at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. The invention pertains to improved gift card carriers.
More particularly, a first aspect pertains to a gift card carrier that also operates as a greeting card. In a first folded configuration, the gift card carrier presents the gift card for purchase. In a second folded configuration, the gift card carrier acts like a greeting card that encloses the gift card, and possibly supplies a greeting or message.
A second aspect pertains to a gift card carrier with a depression for receiving a gift card therein. The depression may make the gift card appear as if its flush mounted within a panel of the gift card carrier. A third aspect pertains to a gift card carrier with an image of hardware device that includes a display, and a gift card that includes an image associated with the hardware device.
The gift card is positioned over the display region of the hardware device image making it appear as if the gift card is the display, and the image thereon is being displayed. In one particular embodiment, content that can be purchased and played on the hardware device as for example media items such as audio and video is disposed on the gift card.
The inventor is Jamie Roberts.
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