US 12,475,433 B2
Provisioning temporary functionality to user devices
Claudia Ng, San Bruno, CA (US); and John Lewis, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Block, Inc., Oakland, CA (US)
Filed by Block, Inc., Oakland, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/463,130.
Application 18/463,130 is a continuation of application No. 17/020,547, filed on Sep. 14, 2020, granted, now 11,790,316.
Application 17/020,547 is a continuation of application No. 15/454,892, filed on Mar. 9, 2017, granted, now 10,803,418, issued on Oct. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0005272 A1, Jan. 4, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/00 (2023.01); G06F 8/60 (2018.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC G06Q 10/087 (2013.01) [G06F 8/60 (2013.01); G06Q 10/00 (2013.01); G06Q 20/203 (2013.01); H04L 63/083 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, via an application executing on a computing device of an entity associated with a service provider, information from one or more instances of the application executing on one or more user computing devices operated by one or more users associated with the entity, wherein the application is provided by the service provider to the entity, and wherein an instance of the application configures a user computing device to generate and transmit the information to the computing device of the entity;
based at least in part on the information, provisioning, by the computing device of the entity, access to a functionality associated with the application to a user computing device, of the one or more user computing devices, of a user, wherein the access enables the user computing device to independently implement, via an instance of the application, the functionality;
receiving, by the computing device of the entity and from the user computing device, data corresponding to usage of the functionality through the user computing device; and
sending, from the computing device of the entity and via the application, the data to one or more server computing devices of the service provider to cause the one or more server computing devices to update one or more databases associated with the functionality.