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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2023
Block, Inc., Oakland, CA (US);
Edward Ruder, San Jose, CA (US);
James Puls, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mehdi Mulani, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shawn Morel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Grace Huey Chen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher Clark, San Francisco, CA (US);
J. Bryan Scott, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric Monti, San Francisco, CA (US);
Block, Inc., Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
In an example, a method can include receiving, at a merchant-facing portion of a payment system, data from a customer-facing portion of the payment system indicating a payment transaction between a merchant and a customer, wherein there is a physical connection between the portions; determining that the payment system is unable to access a remote payment service system via an external network; determining that the payment transaction is not preapproved for payment by the remote payment service system; storing the payment transaction on the merchant-facing portion even though the payment transaction is not preapproved; determining that the payment system is able to access the remote payment service system via the external network; and transmitting transaction information including the stored payment transaction to the remote payment service system, via the external network, for processing the stored payment transaction.