Real time splitting of payments for travel
AssigneeMastercard International Incorporated
InventorsRosa Maria Rodriguez, Anjum Rahber, Shannon Grehan, Ricardo Carretero, Aashna Shroff
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Abstract
An apparatus, medium, and method including receiving transaction details related to a purchase transaction from a first user, the transaction details including at least a purchase amount; receiving a request to split the purchase amount between multiple users, the multiple users including the first user; dividing the purchase amount between the multiple users; and completing the purchase transaction directly with the multiple users in accordance with the purchase amount divided between the multiple users and a payment account device associated with each of the multiple users.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- receiving transaction details related to a purchase transaction from a first user, the transaction details including at least a purchase amount;
- receiving a request to split the purchase amount between multiple users, the multiple users including the first user;
- dividing the purchase amount between the multiple users;
- and
- completing the purchase transaction directly with the multiple users in accordance with the purchase amount divided between the multiple users and a payment account device associated with each of the multiple users.
An apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory in communication with the processor, the memory storing executable program instructions, the processor operative with the program instructions to:
- receive transaction details related to a purchase transaction from a first user, the transaction details including at least a purchase amount;
- receive a request to split the purchase amount between multiple users, the multiple users including the first user;
- divide the purchase amount between the multiple users;
- and
- complete the purchase transaction directly with the multiple users in accordance with the purchase amount divided between the multiple users and a payment account device associated with each of the multiple users.
A medium having processor-executable program instructions stored
- thereon, the medium comprising:
- program instructions to receive transaction details related to a purchase transaction from a first user, the transaction details including at least a purchase amount;
- program instructions to receive a request to split the purchase amount between multiple users, the multiple users including the first user;
- program instructions to divide the purchase amount between the multiple users;
- and
- program instructions to complete the purchase transaction directly with the multiple users in accordance with the purchase amount divided between the multiple users and a payment account device associated with each of the multiple users.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.