Managing devices associated with a digital wallet account

US10127533B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Google LLC · US

Inventors

• Mark William Andrews · Grosse Pointe Park, US
• Peter Malcolm Gwinn · San Francisco, US
• Erick John Armbrust · San Francisco, US
• Petra Cross · San Francisco, US
• Christopher M. Petersen · New Canaan, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 30, 2012
• Grant date: Nov 13, 2018
• Expiry date: Oct 19, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/00
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Managing user devices associated with a digital wallet account comprises associating, using one or more computing devices, one or more user computing devices with a digital wallet account of a user, each of the associated one or more user computing devices being activated to conduct financial transactions with a merchant utilizing the digital wallet account; presenting the associated user computing devices in a list of associated user computing devices; receiving a request to deactivate a particular user computing device from the list of associated user computing devices; deactivating the particular user computing device, the deactivation being sufficient to prevent the user computing device from conducting transactions with a merchant utilizing the digital wallet account; and presenting a deactivated status of the particular user computing device.