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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2016
Bank of America Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US);
David M. Grigg, Rock Hill, SC (US);
Bank of America Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention include systems, methods, and computer-program products for a clearing house for creating and directing readable indicia to/from merchants, users, and/or vendors. As such, merchants, users, and vendors may all be able to recognize, read, and complete transactions using a created universal readable indicia, irrespective of the entities associated with the transaction. The invention may create and provide a universal readable indicia that may be read and/or scanned by any of a user, merchant, or vendor. Subsequently, upon scanning, the system may recognize the appropriate vendor associated with the scan, based on information about the user or merchant derived from the scan. As such, the invention may be able to convert the universal readable indicia to one or more indicia accepted by a vendor that may complete the transaction with the user and/or merchant.