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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2019
Stripe, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Jonathan Wall, San Francisco, CA (US);
Devesh Senapati, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nate Barnett, San Francisco, CA (US);
STRIPE, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for reader device registration, activation, and use are described. The method may include receiving, by a commerce platform, a registration request generated by a reader device, wherein the registration request comprises at least identification data for the reader device. The method may also include transmitting, to the reader device, a registration code. The method may also include receiving, by the commerce platform from a merchant system, a second registration code purported to be the registration code transmitted to the reader device. The method may also include generating an encryption key associated with the reader device and transmitting the encryption key to the merchant system, wherein the encryption key is provided by merchant system to the reader device for use by the reader device when communicating with the commerce platform during merchant transactions.