US 12,223,495 B2
Value added services polling
Ahmer Ali Khan, Milpitas, CA (US); Brian J. Tucker, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Ho Cheung Chung, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Joakim Linde, Palo Alto, CA (US); Zachary A. Rosen, San Francisco, CA (US); and Gordon Y. Scott, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/806,466.
Application 17/806,466 is a continuation of application No. 15/170,724, filed on Jun. 1, 2016, granted, now 11,373,168.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/171,851, filed on Jun. 5, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0374868 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2023.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06Q 20/32 (2012.01); G06Q 20/34 (2012.01); G06Q 30/0226 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 20/353 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/204 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3278 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0226 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a portable communication device, the method comprising:
based on receiving a first wake-up command from a payment terminal, waiting, for a threshold period of time, to receive a value-added services (VAS) command from the payment terminal;
based on receiving the VAS command within the threshold period of time:
providing, to the payment terminal, a response to the VAS command to initiate a VAS protocol,
receiving, from the payment terminal, a merchant identifier associated with a merchant,
obtaining loyalty card information based on the merchant identifier, and
providing, to the payment terminal, the loyalty card information to cause the payment terminal to perform a VAS transaction based on the loyalty card information; and
based on receiving a second wake-up command from the payment terminal, providing payment card information to cause the payment terminal to perform a payment transaction using the payment card information.