US 11,669,826 B2
Transaction processing by multiple devices
Edward Ruder, San Jose, CA (US); James Puls, San Francisco, CA (US); Mehdi Mulani, San Francisco, CA (US); Shawn Morel, San Francisco, CA (US); Grace Huey Chen, San Francisco, CA (US); Christopher Clark, San Francisco, CA (US); J. Bryan Scott, San Francisco, CA (US); and Eric Monti, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Block, Inc., Oakland, CA (US)
Filed by Block, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/900,690.
Application 17/900,690 is a continuation of application No. 16/681,217, filed on Nov. 12, 2019, granted, now 11,475,431.
Application 16/681,217 is a continuation of application No. 13/797,390, filed on Mar. 12, 2013, granted, now 10,496,977, issued on Dec. 3, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/672,228, filed on Jul. 16, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2022/0414635 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/32 (2012.01); G06Q 20/40 (2012.01); G06Q 20/12 (2012.01)
CPC G06Q 20/322 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/12 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3223 (2013.01); G06Q 20/4016 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A payment system comprising:
a first device of a customer that is configured with a first application that is provided by a payment service system and that is executable on an operating system of the first device to (i) display information to the customer and (ii) receive first input from the customer, wherein the first device includes a payment reader; and
a second device of a merchant that is configured with a second application that is provided by the payment service system and is executable on an operating system of the second device to (i) display information to the merchant and (ii) receive second input from the merchant,
wherein the first application and the second application are different applications executing on different devices and are associated with a same merchant account associated with the payment service system, and wherein:
the first device and the second device communicate to generate transaction data associated with a transaction between the customer and the merchant, wherein the transaction data includes payment data; and
at least the second device communicates with the payment service system via an external network for processing payment for the transaction.