Transaction processing by multiple devices

US11475431B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Block, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Edward Ruder · San Jose, US
• James Puls · San Francisco, US
• Mehdi Mulani · San Francisco, US
• Shawn Morel · San Francisco, US
• Grace Huey Chen · San Francisco, US
• Christopher Rolland Clark · Jefferson City, US
• J. Bryan Scott · San Francisco, US
• Eric Monti · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 12, 2019
• Grant date: Oct 18, 2022
• Expiry date: Nov 12, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q20/4016
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques associated with a customer-facing device and a merchant-facing device are described herein. In an example, a system can include a customer-facing device configured with a customer application that is executable on an operating system of the customer-facing device to (i) display information to a customer and (ii) receive input from the customer, wherein the customer-facing device includes a payment reader to read payment data from a payment instrument in association with a payment transaction between the customer and a merchant, and a merchant-facing device configured with a merchant application that is executable on an operating system of the merchant-facing device to (i) display information to the merchant and (ii) receive input from the merchant. In at least one example, the customer-facing device and the merchant-facing device can communicate to process, at least in part, the payment transaction associated with the payment instrument via a remote payment service system.