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US 2021/0065154 A1Published application
Alternative Service Access
AssigneePaypal, Inc.
InventorPankaj Sarin
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Abstract
Alternative service access with operations including determining that a system has met a plurality of criteria, including the system having a battery level below a threshold, identifying a merchant, generating an authentication token for authorizing a payment using a payment provider, and sending the authentication token to the payment provider.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A system, comprising:
- receiving, from a user device, a first authentication token;
- determining a merchant associated with the first authentication token;
- placing the first authentication token into a queue of tokens for the merchant;
- receiving an authenticator from a merchant device;
- matching the authenticator with a second authentication token in the queue of tokens;
- authorizing a payment to the merchant from an account associated with the second authentication token;
- receiving an indication that the user device is turned on;
- and
- in response to receiving the indication that the user device is turned on, revoking the first authentication token.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, from a user device, a first authentication token;
- determining a merchant associated with the first authentication token;
- placing the first authentication token into a queue of tokens for the merchant;
- receiving an authenticator from a merchant device;
- matching the authenticator with a second authentication token in the queue of tokens;
- authorizing a payment to the merchant from an account associated with the second authentication token;
- receiving an indication that the user device has exited a geo-fenced area;
- and
- in response to receiving the indication that the user device has exited the geo-fenced area, revoking the first authentication token.
6 more elements
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a system to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, from a user device, a first authentication token;
- determining a merchant associated with the first authentication token;
- placing the first authentication token into a queue of tokens for the merchant;
- receiving an authenticator from a merchant device;
- matching the authenticator with a second authentication token in the queue of tokens;
- authorizing a payment to the merchant from an account associated with the second authentication token;
- receiving an indication that the user device is turned on;
- and
- in response to receiving the indication that the user device is turned on, revoking the first authentication token.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.