Methods and apparatus for authorizing and providing of services

A method for a system includes:

• beginning receiving in a smart device transit data comprising a transit identifier and a nonce;
• transmitting from the smart device to an authorization server, an identifier associated with a user, the transit data;
• receiving from the authorization server in the smart device authorization data, wherein the authorization data is determined in response to the identifier associated with the user, the transit data;
• outputting from the smart device to a transit terminal the authorization data;
• wherein the transit terminal authorizes the user to enter a transit system associated with the transit terminal in response to the authorization data;
• beginning receiving in the smart device additional transit data comprising another transit identifier and another nonce;
• transmitting from the smart device to the authorization server, the identifier associated with the user, the additional transit data;
• receiving from the authorization server in the smart device additional authorization data, wherein the additional authorization data is determined in response to the identifier associated with the user, the additional transit data;
• and
• outputting from the smart device to the other transit terminal the additional authorization data;
• wherein the other transit terminal authorizes the user to exit the transit system in response to the additional authorization data;
• transmitting from the authorization server to a payment server, the identifier associated with the user, the transit data and the additional transit data;
• receiving in the authorization server from the payment server an approved condition when the payment server determines existence of an account in response the identifier associated with the user, and in response to the transit data and the additional transit data;
• and
• determining in the authorization server the authorization data in response to the transit data and the approved condition.