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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2020
Kishore Swaminathan, Willowbrook, IL (US);
Kishore Swaminathan, Willowbrook, IL (US);
Abstract
An open framework for mobile payments to vending machines (VM) comprises a namespace and a payment bus: the namespace provides unique IDs for VMs, and the payment bus enables payers to pay any VM through any payment service of their choice. Embodiments describe how this invention caters to online VMs with a wide-area data connection and offline VMs with no data connection. Described herein is a VM module that enables traditional VMs to be retrofitted. The twin goals of our invention are (a) to give customers and vending machine operators a universal payment platform and (b) to enable vending machine operators to reduce their capital and operational costs.