Electronic chip cards and smart cards; magnetic encodable cards; digital card readers; digital card reader heads; computers and computer peripherals; operating system software for smart cards and card readers; application software using smart cards in the fields of retailing, finance, entertainment, health, medicine, security, transport, and telecommunications, namely, software used for customer preferences and profiles, consumer awards programs, sales coupon schemes, metering, e.g., measurin...

cards using microcircuits, devices for the reading of cards using microcircuits, communications network terminals, bank and data base terminals comprising such reading devices