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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2015
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Thomas Ko, Monroe Township, NJ (US);

Assignee:

SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/06 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 20/10 (2012.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06Q 20/40 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/0655 (2013.01); G06Q 20/10 (2013.01); G06Q 20/204 (2013.01); G06Q 20/4014 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0215 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0226 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0227 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various aspects of a method and system for processing a monetary transaction are disclosed herein. The method includes registration, at a server, of a first virtual currency instrument that corresponds to a first account and one or more other virtual currency instruments that corresponds to one or more other accounts. The registered first virtual currency instrument is associated with a first value. The method further includes reception, at the server, of a redemption request of the registered first virtual currency instrument to process the monetary transaction. The received redemption request is higher than the first value associated with the registered first virtual currency instrument by an excess value. The method further includes redemption, at the server, the first value associated with the registered first virtual currency instrument and at least portions of one or more other values associated with the registered one or more other virtual currency instruments that correspond to the excess value, to process the monetary transaction.


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