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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2020
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mark William Andrews, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard Tsuwen Hung, Los Altos, CA (US);
Robin Dua, San Franisco, CA (US);
Marcus Quintana Mitchell, New York, NY (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Using identifiers on user payment instruments to identify user loyalty accounts comprises a method to store a loyalty account list associated with a user, the loyalty account list comprising one or more user loyalty accounts; associate an identifier with the loyalty account list; receive information identifying a user loyalty account associated with a merchant, the information comprising an account number for the user loyalty account and an identity of the merchant; associate the user loyalty account with the loyalty account list; receive a request for information identifying a user loyalty account associated with a merchant, the request comprising the identifier received by the merchant from a user payment instrument and an identity of the merchant; determine the user loyalty account associated with the merchant; and provide the information identifying a user loyalty account associated with a merchant.