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

US8612352B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• INC SQUARE, CO., LTD · JP

Inventors

• Jack Dorsey · San Francisco, US
• William Henderson · San Francisco, US
• Brian Grassadonia · San Francisco, US
• James M. McKelvey · Miami, US
• Xuancong Wen · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 14, 2013
• Grant date: Dec 17, 2013
• Expiry date: Mar 14, 2033

Classification

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

Abstract

A decoding system with a decoding engine running on a mobile device The decoding engine decodes signals produced from a read of a buyer's financial transaction card, accepts and initializes incoming signals from a read of a buyer's financial transaction card until the signals reach a steady state, detects the read of the buyer's financial transaction card once the incoming signals are in a steady stat, identifies peaks in the incoming signals and digitizes the identified peaks in the incoming signals into bits. A transaction engine runs on the mobile device and is coupled to the decoding engine. A payment system is in communication with the transaction engine and with a buyer's financial transaction card institution or a first party's financial account. The payment system includes identifying information of second parties qualified by the payment system to conduct business with the payment system.