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Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 26, 2017
Applicant:

Visa International Service Association, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventor:

Thomas Bellenger, San Mateo, CA (US);

Assignee:

Visa International Service Association, San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/023 (2013.01); H04W 4/025 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 76/14 (2018.02);
Abstract

A method is disclosed. The method includes establishing, by a first device, a wireless connection to a second device; transmitting a request, by the first device and to the second device, for location data indicative of a location of the second device; receiving, by the first device and from the second device, the location data indicative of the location of the second device; determining, by the first device, a distance between the first device and the second device based at least in part on the received location data; generating, by the first device, an altered value based on the received location data and the determined distance; and transmitting, by the first device and to the second device, the altered value and an account identifier associated with a user of the first device.


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