G06Q 20/28
Pre-payment schemes
Official title: Pre-payment schemes, e.g. "pay before"
G06Q20/28 (Pre-payment schemes) appears on 1,153 US grants and 1,768 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06Q- Granted patents
- 1,153
- Published applications
- 1,768
- Assignees
- 586
- Inventors
- 2,604
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 9 | 24 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Product release system, method and device having a customizable prepurchase function4 Aug 2026US 12,700,030 B2Draft2Digital, LLC
- Product release system, method and device having a customizable prepurchase function28 Jul 2026US 12,694,440 B2Draft2Digital, LLC
- Real-time provisioning of targeted digital content based on decomposed structured messaging data and peer data2 Jun 2026US 12,646,059 B2The Toronto-Dominion Bank
- Computer-implemented method for data processing in a filtered spend program12 May 2026US 12,626,236 B2Fidelity Information Services, LLC
- Methods, systems, and devices for loading currency into an electronic wallet21 Apr 2026US 12,608,701 B2Wayne Fueling Systems LLC
- Computer-implemented method for data processing in a filtered spend program20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245062 A1Fidelity Information Services, LLC
- Digital Currency-Based Prepayment Fund Management Method, Apparatus and System20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245066 A1Digital Currency Institute , the People’s Bank of China
- Vehicle treatment arch with pressure differential indication system and tool engagement system2 Jul 2026US 2026/0188072 A1Vacuum Technologies, LLC
- Combinable gift card components18 Jun 2026US 2026/0170482 A1Target Brands, Inc.
- Image forming apparatus, method for controlling image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program28 May 2026US 2026/0149782 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Cashless gaming apparatus and method931US 5,265,874 AInternational Game Technology (IGT) · 1993
- Payment and transactions in electronic commerce system793US 6,029,150 ACertCo LLC · 2000
- Credit card system and method734US 6,636,833 B1Obis Patents Ltd. · 2003
- Preset amount electronic funds transfer system for gaming machines654US 5,902,983 AInternational Game Technology · 1999
- System, method and article of manufacture for the use of payment instrument holders and payment instruments in network electronic commerce640US 5,963,924 AVeriFone, Inc. · 1999