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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2020
Mastercard International Incorporated, Purchase, NY (US);
Joseph Hayes, Montclair, NJ (US);
Marek Kurylko, Bloomfield, NJ (US);
Eugene Reda, Little Falls, NJ (US);
MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED, Purchase, NY (US);
Abstract
Through a missing entity process any point of sale (POS) terminal can be used to help a missing entity contact find a missing entity. A missing entity system can receive a request that includes at least missing entity account information and merchant information as transmitted from the POS terminal. The request may be a missing entity service request (an API call) requesting a missing entity alert or a conventional transaction request, such as an authorization request or a preauthorization request. Upon receipt of the request, the missing entity system can obtain contact information for a missing entity contact associated with the missing entity account information and communicate, via a messaging application, the missing entity alert to the missing entity contact using the obtained contact information. The missing entity alert notifies the missing entity contact of the location of the missing entity as indicated by the merchant information.