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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2012
Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert von Behren, San Francisco, CA (US);
Oliver S. Quigley, San Francisco, CA (US);
SQUARE, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of securely conducting a financial transaction includes receiving, at a card reader, a first plurality of messages from a smart card; identifying, using the reader, one or more sensitive messages in the first plurality of messages, where the first plurality of messages conforms to a protocol of the financial transaction; encrypting, using the reader, the one or more sensitive messages using a cryptographic key of the reader to generate encrypted messages; formatting, using the reader, a second plurality of messages according to the protocol to send to a mobile device, where the second plurality of messages includes the encrypted messages and messages in the first plurality of messages that are not sensitive; determining, using a mobile device, action steps according to the protocol, where the action steps are determined from the second plurality of messages; and executing the action steps.