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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2018
Opentable, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Rohan Angrish, Mumbai, IN;
Rishi Deshpande, Mumbai, IN;
Kashyap Deorah, Mumbai, IN;
Tapan Pandita, Mumbai, IN;
Ulhas Mandrawadkar, Mumbai, IN;
Keshav Krity, Mumbai, IN;
Sanjay Dalsania, Mumbai, IN;
Abhay Kumar, Mumbai, IN;
Dave Arthurs, San Francisco, CA (US);
OpenTable, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Mobile payments integrated with a booking system. In one embodiment, for example, a method in a service provider computer system is performed. The service provider computer system is communicatively coupled to a computing device of a user and a merchant point-of-sale computer by one or more data networks. The method comprises: receiving a request from the computing device of the user to pay a ticket open at the merchant point-of-sale computer; obtaining a current total ticket amount for the ticket from the merchant point-of-sale computer; determining an estimated total ticket amount based at least in part on the current total ticket amount; authorizing but not capturing payment of the estimated total ticket amount with a payment network gateway computer; after the ticket is closed at the merchant point-of-sale computer, obtaining a final total ticket amount for the ticket from the merchant point-of-sale computer; and capturing payment of the final total ticket amount with the payment network gateway computer.