US 8,949,142 B1 · Mobile payments integrated with a booking system

Abstract

In an embodiment, a data processing method comprises, using a merchant booking computer, associating a reservation record with a location identifier, wherein the reservation record comprises a user identifier; using a service provider computer system, matching a transaction ticket stored in a point-of-sale (POS) computer of a merchant to the location identifier of the reservation record, based upon obtaining one or more POS data values from the POS computer, and obtaining ticket data specifying one or more items in the transaction ticket; based upon the user identifier and a user account that associates the user identifier with a mobile computing device identifier, communicating the ticket data to a mobile computing device; receiving, from the mobile computing device, a request to pay a payment amount based upon the ticket data; requesting a payment gateway computer to initiate a payment transaction in which user payment account data associated with the user account identified as payer and in which a merchant account associated with the merchant is identified as beneficiary.

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Dependent claims

A data processing method comprising:

using a merchant booking computer, associating a reservation record with a location identifier, wherein the reservation record comprises a user identifier;
using a service provider computer system, obtaining the location identifier, matching a transaction ticket stored in a point-of-sale (POS) computer of a merchant to the location identifier of the reservation record, based upon obtaining one or more POS data values from the POS computer, and obtaining ticket data specifying one or more items in the transaction ticket;
based upon the user identifier and a user account that associates the user identifier with a mobile computing device identifier, communicating the ticket data to a mobile computing device using the service provider computer system;
receiving, from the mobile computing device, a request to pay a payment amount based upon the ticket data;
requesting a payment gateway computer to initiate a payment transaction in which user payment account data associated with the user account identified as payer and in which a merchant account associated with the merchant is identified as beneficiary.

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A data processing method comprising:

using a booking application at a service provider computer system, receiving a reservation confirmation message from a mobile computing device that confirms a reservation request for a restaurant reservation that comprised a restaurant name, date, time, and party size;
using an electronic reservation book (ERB) computer, receiving from the service provider computer system the date, time and party size of the restaurant reservation;
storing the date, time and party size in association with a reservation record;
using the ERB computer, associating a reservation record with a table number, wherein the reservation record comprises a user identifier;
communicating, to the service provider computer system, the location identifier in association with the user identifier;
using the service provider computer system, matching a dining transaction ticket stored in a point-of-sale (POS) computer of a restaurant to the table number of the reservation record, based upon obtaining one or more POS data values from the POS computer, and obtaining ticket data specifying one or more items in the transaction ticket, by requesting the POS computer to provide ticket data for a transaction ticket of the POS computer having a POS table number that matches the location identifier in the reservation record;
based upon the user identifier and a user account that associates the user identifier with a mobile computing device identifier, communicating the ticket data to a mobile computing device using the service provider computer system;
receiving, from the mobile computing device, a request to pay a payment amount based upon the ticket data;
requesting a payment gateway computer to initiate a payment transaction in which user payment account data associated with the user account identified as payer and in which a merchant account associated with the merchant is identified as beneficiary.

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One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform a method comprising:

using a merchant booking computer, associating a reservation record with a location identifier, wherein the reservation record comprises a user identifier;
using a service provider computer system, obtaining the location identifier, matching a transaction ticket stored in a point-of-sale (POS) computer of a merchant to the location identifier of the reservation record, based upon obtaining one or more POS data values from the POS computer, and obtaining ticket data specifying one or more items in the transaction ticket;
based upon the user identifier and a user account that associates the user identifier with a mobile computing device identifier, communicating the ticket data to a mobile computing device using the service provider computer system;
receiving, from the mobile computing device, a request to pay a payment amount based upon the ticket data;
requesting a payment gateway computer to initiate a payment transaction in which user payment account data associated with the user account identified as payer and in which a merchant account associated with the merchant is identified as beneficiary.