Mobile merchant user interface
AssigneeCingular Wireless II, LLC
InventorsMichael Alton Smith, Max Glenn Faulkner, Charles M. Link
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Abstract
A merchant is provided the ability to receive and process wireless financial transactions through interaction with a mobile device. The merchant can be authenticated with an account-based service through various techniques including biometric techniques. The merchant can receive a customer's payment information for a sales transaction and input such payment information into the mobile device through various interfaces, such as a keypad, voice recognition, pattern recognition. The mobile device can also include a card reader that can automate entry of the payment information from a credit card, debit card or other identification card.
Claims20
A user interface to collect and manage a plurality of monetary transactions, comprising:
- an authentication receiver component that accepts user authentication information;
- a financial receiver component that receives payment information;
- and
- an interface component that communicates the authentication information and the payment information to a remote server.
A method of processing financial transactions with a remote device;
- receiving a data input relating to a financial transaction;
- transmitting the received data input to a server;
- receiving a communication from the server in response to the transmitted data input;
- and
- presenting a transaction prompt to structure the order of the data input
A graphical user interface program, comprising:
- means for receiving a communication initiation request;
- means for accepting authentication information;
- means for receiving financial information;
- and
- means for communicating at least one of the communication initiation request, authentication information or financial information to an account-based server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.