Apple Inc.

Square, Inc.

Block, Inc.

Mattel, Inc.

Interval Research Corporation

Vulcan Patents LLC

Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

Interval Licensing LLC

Squre, Inc.

Interval Research Group

Jesse Lee Dorogusker

Emily Clark Schubert

Anthony Michael Fadell

Jeffrey J Terlizzi

Lawrence G Bolton

Donald Joseph Novotney

Emery Artemus Sanford

Stephen Paul Zadesky

Ruben Caballero

Stephan Vincent Schell

Thomas Templeton

Scott Peter Krueger

Gregory Thomas Lydon

Amish Rajesh Babu

Andrew Bart Hodge

Kartik Lamba

Donald Ginsburg

Mitchell David Adler

Matthew H Maibach

Timothy Michael Johnson

Wendell B Sander

Robert E Borchers

Brian Jonathan Conner

Brian Sander

Douglas M Farrar

David Tupman

Joakim Linde

Brian J Tucker

Troy J Edwards

Stephen John Chick

Lukas Skoog

Jeremy Wade

Mihnea Calin Pacurariu

Randall Hayes Ubillos

Victor Manuel Tiscareno

John Wesley Archibald

James H Boyden

Michael C Lamfalusi

Glenn Gregory Gilley

S Joy Mountford

Sarah A Brody

Thomas J Dougherty

Stephen Nicholas Weiss

Jonathan Jake Rubinstein

John Benjamin Filson

Afshin Rezayee

Nitin Ganatra

Elliot Sather

Emad Bidari

Brygg A Ullmer

John Gee Tang

Andrew Bert Hodge

Paul Holden

Joseph T Moll

Daniel E Cummings

David Vincent Helmlinger

Paul Aaron

Stanley Rabu

Shyam S Toprani

Joseph R Fisher, Jr

Martha Evans Hankey

Gregory N Christie

Thomas M Alsina

Sigrid G Moeslinger

Nicholas Robert Kalayjian

John Meron Ananny

Max Joseph Guise

William E Bull

Yenliang Chen

Oliver Thomas Bayley

Leonard R Clark, Jr

Steve Saro Gedikian

Terry L Tikalsky

Nathan Spindel

Christopher D McKillop

Justin M Discoe

Debby Hindus

Jay S Laefer

LaVonne E Strand

Rodion Steshenko

Sean Michael White

Dan Post

Richard P Howarth

Ronald Keryuan Huang

Erik L Wang

Brian Grassadonia

Policarpo Bonilla Wood

Jahan C Minoo

Wey-Jiun Lin

Phil M Hobson

James M McKelvey

Greg Marriott

Michael Dustin Moring

Andrew Borovsky

Paul-Phillip Holden

Isreal Blagdan

Brian Clemens

Christopher J Brooks

Allen Paul Haughay, Jr

James Eric Mason

A method and system for multi-account payment processing are described. An example method includes: 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; determining, at the computing system and 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 include 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 determined one or more accounts.

Associating an account with a card

A wearable device, such as a finger ring worn by a user, communicates information about a user to a reader that uses the information in order to perform a transaction. Such wearable device may be conveniently carried by and accessible to the user such that utilization of the device for the transaction is less burdensome for the user, thereby encouraging use of the device for particular transactions. Indeed, in some cases, such as when the device is implemented as a finger ring or other type of jewelry, the user may be encouraged to carry the device in an exposed manner such that it is readily available for the transaction without the user having to search in a wallet, pocket, or purse for the device.

Systems and methods for performing transactions

The present technology pertains to managing a sample of a media item using a non-fungible token (NFT) and an associated smart contract. The present technology includes identifying a portion of the media item as a sample, and creating an NFT referencing assignment of a right associated with the sample of the media item. The NFT has an associated smart contract defining a condition upon satisfaction of which the right associated with the sample will be assigned. The present technology may also include identifying market data of the media item, where the market data includes at least one of a list price and historical sales volume for the media item, and identifying charts data, critical review scores, and social media interaction with the media items. The market data can be used to determine a spot price for the sample of the media item.

Non-fungible tokens for media item samples

The present technology pertains to providing a live playback stream by a multi-media platform. During a live playback stream, the client device controls public playback of media items and is a source of live media during the live playback stream. The live playback stream can be made up of at least two streams between the client device and the multi-media platform. One stream is a playback control channel for transmitting data regarding playback controls pertaining to playback of recorded media content and another stream is a live media stream for transmitting data encoding live media. The multi-media platforms can transmit at least a portion of the data from the playback control channel and the live media stream to an audience member client device.

Live playback streams

The present technology pertains to artist and audience engagement interfaces and differentiated experiences determining a first segment of user accounts, determining a second segment of user accounts, providing media content to the first segment of user accounts and the second segment of user accounts, monitoring engagement of a user account included in the first segment of user accounts with the media content, based on the engagement of the user account transferring the user account from the first segment of user accounts to the second segment of user accounts and providing additional engagement options to the user account, receiving a communication from the user account included in the second segment of user accounts over a communication channel with the artist, and surfacing the received communication to the first segment of user accounts and the second segment of user accounts.

Audience and artist engagement interfaces

The present technology pertains to a penannular slider in a user interface. The penannular slider can accept an input to drag an indicator about the penannular slider to a location between a first terminal end of the penannular slider representing a first input source, and a second terminal end of the penannular slider representing input audio from playback of a media item. The location of the indicator can control a mixing of audio from the first input source and the input audio, and generating a mix includes first audio from the first input source at a first volume level and second audio from the input audio at a second volume level based on the location of the indicator about the penannular slider.

Media mixing user interface

Electronic storage device

A system for performing payment transactions includes a wearable payment device, such as a finger ring worn by a user, that communicates payment data to a payment reader that uses the payment data in order to request a payment transaction. The system also includes a mobile communication device that receives an input associated with the payment transaction from the user and wirelessly transmits information to the wearable payment device based on the input. The wearable payment device can use the information from the mobile communication device for performing the payment transaction and transmit at least a portion of the information from the mobile communication device to the payment reader during the payment transaction.

Systems and methods for performing payment transactions

A wearable payment device, such as a finger ring worn by a user, communicates payment data via an antenna to a payment reader that uses the payment data in order to request a payment transaction. The wearable payment device can tune the antenna to enhance performance of the antenna. The wearable payment device can measure a characteristic of the antenna and perform an assessment of the performance of the antenna based on the measured characteristic. The antenna can be tuned, such as by changing the impedance of the antenna, based on the assessed performance of the antenna.

Wearable payment device with tunable antenna

A wearable payment device, such as a finger ring worn by a user, communicates payment data to a payment reader that uses the payment data in order to request a payment transaction. Such wearable payment device may be conveniently carried by and accessible to the user such that utilization of the payment device for the payment transaction is less burdensome for the user, thereby encouraging use of the payment device for payments. Indeed, in some cases, such as when the payment device is implemented as a finger ring or other type of jewelry, the user may be encouraged to carry the payment device in an exposed manner such that it is readily available for the payment transaction without the user having to search in a wallet, pocket, or purse.

This invention is directed to an electronic device with an embedded authentication system for restricting access to device resources. The authentication system may include one or more sensors operative to detect biometric information of a user. The sensors may be positioned in the device such that the sensors may detect appropriate biometric information as the user operates the device, without requiring the user to perform a step for providing the biometric information (e.g., embedding a fingerprint sensor in an input mechanism instead of providing a fingerprint sensor in a separate part of the device housing). In some embodiments, the authentication system may be operative to detect a visual or temporal pattern of inputs to authenticate a user. In response to authenticating, a user may access restricted files, applications (e.g., applications purchased by the user), or settings (e.g., application settings such as contacts or saved game profile).

Embedded authentication systems in an electronic device

In some examples, methods and systems may process one or more payment transactions between a merchant and a customer by obtaining at least one payment proxy having a syntax including a monetary currency indicator preceding an alphanumeric character. The payment proxy may be transmitted by a transmitter component of a payment beacon device. The method includes generating, through an application accessed through the customer device, a message by identifying the payment proxy in a message and a money transfer amount in the message; parsing the payment proxy to identify the merchant associated with the payment proxy in the message; identifying a merchant financial account associated with the identified merchant, based on a stored association between the merchant financial account and the identified merchant; and initiating, by the payment processing system, a transfer of funds indicative of the money transfer amount from a financial account of the customer to a financial account of the merchant.

Apparatuses, methods, and systems for transmitting payment proxy information

In some examples, methods and systems may process one or more payment transactions between a merchant and a customer by registering, by a biometric sensor of a payment object reader or a mobile device, a biometric characteristic as a biometric payment instrument, for example by obtaining data corresponding to a biometric characteristic of the customer. The data is converted into a digital signature of the biometric characteristic and compared with a registered biometric instrument at the time of transaction. If a match is obtained, the customer effects payments through the registered biometric instrument.

Biometric payment technology

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Jesse Lee Dorogusker