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US 2023/0131028 A1Published application
Cryptocurrency transactions with synchronized images
AssigneeThe Code Corporation
InventorTed LIVINGSTON
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Abstract
A value is exchanged between accounts held by users of two portable electronic devices. The devices synchronize disappearance of the image at the sending device and appearance of the image at the receiving device to give the impression that a physical object representative of the value has been exchanged (e.g., handed) between the users.
Claims12
A portable electronic device comprising:
- a display device;
- a camera;
- a communications interface;
- and
- a processor connected to the display device, the camera, and the communications interface, the processor to operate in a value-sending mode and a value-receiving mode;
- wherein, in the value-sending mode, the processor is to:
- control the display device to display an image representative of a value to be sent from an account associated with the portable electronic device to an account associated with another portable electronic device that is in the value-receiving mode;
- control the communications interface to participate in a transfer of the value to be sent between the accounts in response to the other portable electronic device capturing the image with its camera;
- and
- synchronize disappearance of the image from the display device with appearance of the image at the other portable electronic device;
- wherein, in the value-receiving mode, the processor is to:
- control the camera to capture an image representative of a value to be received by the account associated with the portable electronic device from the account associated with the other portable electronic device that is in the value-sending mode, wherein the image is captured while displayed by the other portable electronic device;
- control the communications interface to participate in a transfer of the value to be received in response to capture of the image;
- and
- synchronize appearance of the image on the display device with disappearance of the image from the other portable electronic device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.