Mobile payments integrated with a booking system

US10157380B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Opentable, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Rohan Angrish · Redwood City, US
• Rishi Deshpande · Mountain View, US
• Kashyap Deorah · Mumbai, IN
• Tapan Pandita · Mumbai, IN
• Ulhas Mandrawadkar · Mumbai, IN
• Keshav Krity · Mumbai, IN
• Sanjay Dalsania · Mumbai, IN
• Abhay Kumar · Chapra, IN
• Dave Arthurs · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 2, 2014
• Grant date: Dec 18, 2018
• Expiry date: Apr 15, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/12
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Mobile payments integrated with a booking system. In one embodiment, for example, a method in a service provider computer system is performed. The service provider computer system is communicatively coupled to a computing device of a user and a merchant point-of-sale computer by one or more data networks. The method comprises: receiving a request from the computing device of the user to pay a ticket open at the merchant point-of-sale computer; obtaining a current total ticket amount for the ticket from the merchant point-of-sale computer; determining an estimated total ticket amount based at least in part on the current total ticket amount; authorizing but not capturing payment of the estimated total ticket amount with a payment network gateway computer; after the ticket is closed at the merchant point-of-sale computer, obtaining a final total ticket amount for the ticket from the merchant point-of-sale computer; and capturing payment of the final total ticket amount with the payment network gateway computer.