Wireless dongle facilitated mobile transactions
AssigneePaypal, Inc.
InventorsSatish Narayan Govindarajan, John Hastings Granbery
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Computing systems and methods for facilitating mobile transactions are disclosed. An example method includes: detecting, via a hardware communication interface, a user check-in request based at least on a communication exchange between a user device and a signaling device at a location. The communication exchange corresponds to a proximity of the user device to the signaling device. The method further includes: determining a user identifier associated with the user device based at least on the user check-in request; and transmitting one or more promotional items to the user device based at least on the user identifier.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a non-transitory memory;
- and
- one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations comprising:
- broadcasting, by a wireless communication device communicatively coupled to the system over a proximity range, wireless signals for a wireless pairing with the system, wherein the wireless signals comprise a universally unique identifier (UUID) from a service provider for the system;
- receiving, from a mobile communication device, a handshake request with the wireless communication device, wherein the handshake request requests the wireless pairing with the mobile communication device based on the UUID;
- initiating, upon a completion of a handshake process corresponding to the handshake request, a check-in of a user account associated with the mobile communication device with the system, wherein the check-in is initiated with the service provider;
- receiving a request for a transaction from the checked-in mobile communication device;
- and
- processing the transaction with the service provider based on the request.
A method comprising:
- transmitting, by a wireless communication device over a proximity range, wireless signals for a wireless pairing with the wireless communication device, wherein the wireless signals comprise a universally unique identifier (UUID) from a service provider;
- receiving, from a mobile communication device, a handshake request associated with the broadcasted UUID, wherein the handshake request requests the wireless pairing with the mobile communication device based on the UUID;
- initiating, upon a completion of a handshake process corresponding the handshake request, a check-in of a user account associated with the mobile communication device, wherein the check-in is initiated with the service provider;
- receiving a request for a transaction from the checked-in mobile communication device;
- and
- processing the transaction with the service provider based on the request.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:
- transmitting, using a wireless communication device over a proximity range, wireless signals for a wireless pairing with the wireless communication device, wherein the wireless signals comprise a universally unique identifier (UUID) from a service provider;
- receiving, from a mobile communication device, a handshake request associated with the broadcasted UUID, wherein the handshake request requests the wireless pairing with the mobile communication device based on the UUID;
- initiating, upon a completion of a handshake process corresponding to the handshake request, a check-in of a user account associated with the mobile communication device, wherein the check-in is initiated with the service provider;
- receiving a request for a transaction from the checked-in mobile communication device;
- and
- processing the transaction with the service provider based on the request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.