United Services Automobile Association (usaa)

Vidya Nagarajan

Ruthie D Lyle

Ravi Durairaj

David M Jones, Jr

Jon Daniel McEachron

Brennen Michael Ricks

Jeff Calusinski

Sharonda Phillips

The present disclosure relates to a mobile computing device that is configured to secure a purchase transaction between a customer and merchant, and facilitate self-checkout between the user and any of several merchants. The system provides a payment processing network that achieves secure transactions free from fraud, while also having low fees. The system is based on establishing a relationship between a merchant's bank and a customer's bank, prior to a purchase transaction by the customer. The customer may then authorize their own bank to push funds to the merchant's bank in order to purchase goods or services using their smartphone, without the need to share any financial information between the user and merchant themselves. The smartphone is further configured to draw from multiple merchant product databases so that the customer may self-checkout, without the need to use a merchant-specific app, all within one app-linked system for payment and shopping.

Smartphone application for securing purchase transactions between a customer and a merchant with self-checkout

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Frisco, TX, United States of America

Vidya Nagarajan