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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2019
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Grand Cayman, KY;
Lei Guo, Hangzhou, CN;
Xuan Jiang, Beijing, CN;
Jun Ma, Beijing, CN;
Shumin Lin, Beijing, CN;
Ting Wang, Beijing, CN;
Advanced New Technologies Co., LTD, George Town, KY;
Abstract
One embodiment described herein provides a payment-processing apparatus. The payment-processing apparatus can include a facial-information-collection module configured to collect facial information of a customer, a first communication interface configured to communicate with a point-of-sale (POS) terminal, and a second communication interface configured to communicate with a remote computing device and send the collected facial information to the remote computing device, thereby allowing the remote computing device to identify a customer account based on the collected facial information.