US 12,248,922 B1
Associating an account with a card
Kartik Lamba, Berkeley, CA (US); Rodion Steshenko, Union City, CA (US); and Jesse Dorogusker, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Assigned to Block, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Block, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/523,329.
Application 17/523,329 is a continuation of application No. 15/436,478, filed on Feb. 17, 2017, granted, now 11,238,426.
Application 15/436,478 is a continuation of application No. 14/225,338, filed on Mar. 25, 2014, granted, now 9,619,792, issued on Apr. 11, 2017.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06Q 20/22 (2012.01); G06Q 20/32 (2012.01); G06Q 30/0226 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 20/204 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/227 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3224 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0226 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for multi-account payment processing comprising:
receiving, at a computing system and for a payment transaction involving one or more items, information associated with a purchaser, wherein the information is associated with a plurality of accounts, and wherein each of the plurality of accounts is associated with distinct account information;
selecting, using circuitry of the computing system based on one or more account selection criteria, one or more accounts of the plurality of accounts to use for processing the payment transaction, wherein the one or more account selection criteria comprise at least one of merchant type or available funds in the plurality of accounts; and
processing, at the computing system, a respective aspect of the payment transaction corresponding to a respective item of the one or more items using a respective account of the selected one or more accounts.