US 11,720,957 B2
Merchant issued payment vehicles linked to preexisting financial accounts
Bryan T. Bailey, Florence, KY (US)
Assigned to Worldpay, LLC, Symmes Township, OH (US)
Filed by Worldpay, LLC, Symmes Township, OH (US)
Filed on Jan. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/149,177.
Application 17/149,177 is a continuation of application No. 16/552,563, filed on Aug. 27, 2019, granted, now 10,922,750.
Application 16/552,563 is a continuation of application No. 15/891,611, filed on Feb. 8, 2018, granted, now 10,438,283, issued on Oct. 8, 2019.
Application 15/891,611 is a continuation of application No. 14/609,542, filed on Jan. 30, 2015, granted, now 9,922,371, issued on Mar. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0133865 A1, May 6, 2021
Int. Cl. G06Q 40/00 (2023.01); G06Q 20/00 (2012.01); G06Q 40/02 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0226 (2023.01); G06Q 20/40 (2012.01); G06Q 20/38 (2012.01); G06Q 20/22 (2012.01)
CPC G06Q 40/02 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/227 (2013.01); G06Q 20/387 (2013.01); G06Q 20/4012 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0226 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
linking, in a database of an acquirer processor by a payment processing computing system of the acquirer processor, a customer loyalty account number associated with a customer loyalty program to a merchant issued (MI) payment vehicle account number; and
subsequent to linking the customer loyalty account number to the MI payment vehicle account number, upon receipt of an updated account number associated with the customer loyalty program at the payment processing computing system of the acquirer processor from a merchant computing device associated with a merchant, changing, in the database of the acquirer processor by the payment processing computing system of the acquirer processor, the customer loyalty account number linked to the MI payment vehicle account number to the updated customer loyalty account number.