Mercedes-Benz Group Ag

Mark Gerban

Michael Engel

Marco Zunino

Benjamin Lange

A method is provided for determining a starting point between entities. The locations of the entities are determined in a map, a circle enclosing all entities is determined and an optimum position of the starting point is determined iteratively. The starting point initially coincides with a center point of the circle enclosing the entities. To find an optimum position of the starting point for each entity, a route is determined between the respective location and the starting point. In order to shift the position of the starting point, a sum of all of the temporal or physical distances of the routes between entities and the starting point falls below a defined maximum distance, and/or a temporal or physical distance difference between a shortest and a longest route falls below a specified maximum difference.

Method and system for determining a starting point between entities

A method for performing a payment process involves receiving registration information from the user and transmitting the registration information to a card network of the payment system. The card network generates a payment token dependent on the at least one registration information and a corresponding cryptogram for the payment token. The payment token is received from the card network and stored. Payment data is generated using at least the payment token and omitting the cryptogram. The payment data is transmitted to a merchant usable to conduct a transaction with the merchant by the electronic computing device of the user.

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Hamburg, Germany

Mark Gerban