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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2016
Applicant:
Visa U.s.a. Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Zack Fuerstenberg, Toronto, CA;
Ayman Hammad, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Brian Triplett, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Christopher M. Renton, Oakville, CA;
Michael Stephenson, Toronto, CA;
Assignee:
VISA U.S.A. INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/10 (2012.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06Q 20/32 (2012.01); G06Q 20/34 (2012.01); G06K 19/07 (2006.01); G06Q 20/40 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/102 (2013.01); G06K 19/07 (2013.01); G06Q 20/20 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3223 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3278 (2013.01); G06Q 20/341 (2013.01); G06Q 20/40 (2013.01); G06Q 2220/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A beverage holder apparatus includes a chip unit attached to a beverage holder and adapted to communicate with a chip unit reader to perform a payment transaction to purchase the beverage. The chip unit stores an account identifier associated with a financial account, and transmits the stored account identifier to the chip unit reader to perform the payment transaction.