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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2017
Applicant:
Tabletop Media Llc, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Vernon Franklin, Midlothian, TX (US);
Viren R. Balar, Allen, TX (US);
Assignee:
Tabletop Media LLC, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/087 (2013.01);
Abstract
A user terminal comprising: i) a display module comprising a display screen and an interface circuitry for receiving a user input; and ii) a magnetic stripe reader configured to detect a magnetic secure transmission (MST) signal received by the user terminal and, in response to the detection, to launch a real-time application in the user terminal. In one embodiment, the real-time application displays a message on the display module of the user terminal. In another embodiment, the real-time application transmits data to a third-party vendor associated with the MST signal.