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AssigneeMastercard International Incorporated
InventorsPatrick Smets, Eddy Lodewijk Hortensia Van De Velde, Duncan Garrett
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A system and method for enhancing functional interoperability of contactless payment devices that are used for conducting electronic payment transactions between consumers and merchants. The contactless payment devices include RFID-embedded cards issued to consumers and proximity coupling devices such as RFID-enabled readers deployed by merchants. The system and method involve use of a reference card and a reference reader to establish acceptable specifications for issued cards and deployed readers, respectively. The reference card and reference reader are cross-calibrated to link the operational specifications for the cards and the readers. A suitable selection of overlapping specification ranges or tolerances for proper card and reader functions, the enhances the interoperability of the issued cards with a deployed reader, and also the interoperability of deployed readers with an issued card.
A system of contactless payment devices such as card and reader devices, wherein in operation of the devices, the reader devices transmit signals which are received by counterpart card devices, and the card devices transmit signals which are received by counterpart reader devices, the system comprising:
In an electronic payment system based on payment devices such as contactless cards and readers each of which has mutual signal transmitting and receiving functions, a method for enhancing interoperability of a transmitting payment device with a set of different receiving devices and conversely for enhancing step of interoperability of a receiving device with a set of different transmitting payment devices, the method comprising:
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