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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2020
Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd., Grand Cayman, KY;
Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd., Grand Cayman, KY;
Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for paying transportation fare. One of the methods includes: communicating to a toll terminal based on near field communication (NFC) technology, for paying a fare of using a transport system associated with the toll terminal; deducting, through a user account, the fare from an account balance associated with the user account; recording a remaining account balance associated with the user account after the fare is deducted; determining that the remaining account balance is less than a predetermined threshold; and providing the remaining account balance to a second mobile device over the NFC in response to determining that the remaining account balance is less than a predetermined threshold to trigger a request from the second mobile device to a transaction server to add balance to the user account.