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US 12,626,240 B2Granted
Wireless proximity facilitated mobile transactions
AssigneePaypal, Inc.
InventorsSatish Narayan Govindarajan, John Hastings Granbery
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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 execute instructions to cause the system to:
- receive a handshake request from a mobile device with a wireless device communicatively coupled to the system, wherein the handshake request is responsive to a first wireless signal broadcasted by the wireless device for a wireless pairing;
- process the handshake request for the wireless pairing with the mobile device;
- authorize, based on processing the handshake request, one or more uses of a user account associated with the mobile device at a location associated with the wireless device, wherein the user account is provided by a service provider in communication with the system for processing of a transaction with the mobile device at the location;
- broadcast, via one of the wireless device or a secondary wireless device communicatively coupled to the system, a second wireless signal in a first proximity range to a point of sale (POS) device within the location, wherein the second wireless signal enables the POS device to detect the mobile device based on at least the handshake request processed;
- detect the mobile device in the first proximity range to the POS device based on the second wireless signal;
- determine data associated with the transaction, wherein the data is associated with a checkout process at the POS device for a payment for the transaction;
- and
- communicate the data to the mobile device at the POS device via the one of the wireless device or the secondary wireless device.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, from a mobile device, a request to wirelessly pair the mobile device with a wireless device, wherein the request is responsive to a broadcasted signal by the wireless device;
- pairing the wireless device with the mobile device;
- authorizing, based on the pairing, one or more uses of a user account associated with the mobile device at a location associated with the wireless device, wherein the user account is associated with a service provider that processes transactions on behalf of the mobile device using the user account;
- broadcasting, via a secondary wireless device, wireless signals in a first proximity range to a point of sale (POS) device within the location, wherein the wireless signals enable the POS device to detect the mobile device based on at least the request;
- detecting the mobile device in the first proximity range to the POS device based on the wireless signals;
- receiving a request for a transaction from the mobile device via the wireless signals exchanged between the mobile device and the secondary wireless device, wherein the request is associated with a checkout process for the transaction;
- and
- processing the transaction with the service provider based on the request.
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A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:
- detecting a handshake request by a mobile device with a first wireless device communicatively coupled to a computing device associated with a location, wherein the handshake request is responsive to a first wireless signal broadcasted by the first wireless device at the location for wirelessly connecting with the computing device;
- processing the handshake request to wirelessly connect the mobile device with the computing device via the first wireless device;
- establishing an acknowledgement that the mobile device is present at the location based on processing the handshake request, wherein the acknowledgement is usable to provide one or more services to the mobile device at the location;
- broadcasting, via the first wireless device or a second wireless device, a second wireless signal in a first proximity range to a point of sale (POS) device within the location, wherein the second wireless signal enables the POS device to detect the mobile device based on at least the handshake request processed;
- detecting the mobile device in the first proximity range to the POS device based on the second wireless signal;
- determining, based on the acknowledgement and one or more activities associated with the mobile device performed at the location, data usable by the mobile device while the mobile device is at the location, wherein the data is usable with a checkout process for a transaction processable at the POS device;
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- communicating the data to the mobile device at the location after processing the handshake request.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.