Inventor · San Francisco, CA, US

William Henderson

44Patents
18h-index
13Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 26, 2008 → Nov 6, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9576289B2 Authorization of cardless payment transactions Physics 168 Active
US8615445B2 Method for conducting financial transactions Physics 120 Active
US9373112B1 Ranking of merchants for cardless payment transactions Physics 88 Active
US8612352B2 Decoding systems with a decoding engine running on a mobile device and coupled to a payment system that includes identifying information of second parties qualified to conduct business with the payment system Physics 74 Active
US8701997B2 Decoding systems with a decoding engine running on a mobile device and using financial transaction card information to create a send funds application on the mobile device Physics 73 Active
US8662389B2 Payment methods with a payment service and tabs selected by a first party and opened by a second party at any geographic location of the first party's mobile device Physics 64 Active
US8640953B2 Decoding system running on a mobile device and coupled to a payment system that includes at least one of, a user database, a product database and a transaction database Physics 59 Active
US8571989B2 Decoding systems with a decoding engine running on a mobile device and coupled to a social network Physics 58 Active
US8573489B2 Decoding systems with a decoding engine running on a mobile device with a touch screen Physics 57 Active
US8701996B2 Cost effective card reader and methods to be configured to be coupled to a mobile device Physics 57 Active
US8678277B2 Decoding system coupled to a payment system that includes a cryptographic key Physics 57 Active
US8602305B2 Decoding systems with a decoding engine running on a mobile device configured to be coupled and decoupled to a card reader with wake-up electronics Physics 57 Active
US9351114B2 Generating geofences Physics 41 Active
US8965406B2 Generating geofences Electricity 33 Active
US9135618B1 Decoding systems with a decoding engine running on a mobile device and using financial transaction card information to create a send funds application on the mobile device Physics 32 Active
US8180063B2 Audio signal processing system for live music performance Physics 20 Active
US9805366B1 Associating payment information from a payment transaction with a user account Physics 18 Active
US10185958B2 Cardless payment transactions Physics 18 Active
US9589269B2 Cardless payment transactions Physics 18 Active
US9741045B1 Ranking of merchants for cardless payment transactions Physics 14 Active
US9633352B2 Authorization of cardless payment transactions Physics 12 Active
US9436955B2 Methods for transferring funds using a payment service where financial account information is only entered once with a payment service and need not be re-entered for future transfers Physics 10 Active
US10229412B1 Using card present transaction data to generate payment transaction account Physics 10 Active
US9922321B2 Proxy for multiple payment mechanisms Physics 8 Active
US9824350B2 Decoding systems with a decoding engine running on a mobile device and coupled to a payment system Physics 7 Active

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