Patent 8973819 was granted and assigned to BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION on March, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for splitting a gift card. An exemplary apparatus is configured to: receive information associated with a gift card, the gift card being associated with a merchant; associate the gift card with an account; and enable selection of an option to split the gift card into a first portion (e.g., a first new gift card) and a second portion (e.g., a second new gift card).