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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2002
Margaret Morgan Weichert, San Carlos, CA (US);
John Joseph Mascavage, Iii, San Mateo, CA (US);
David L. Hansen, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);
Mark D. Baumgart, Larkspur, CO (US);
Peter M. Karas, Lakewood, CO (US);
Richard G. Wilber, Denver, CO (US);
Margaret Morgan Weichert, San Carlos, CA (US);
John Joseph Mascavage, III, San Mateo, CA (US);
David L. Hansen, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);
Mark D. Baumgart, Larkspur, CO (US);
Peter M. Karas, Lakewood, CO (US);
Richard G. Wilber, Denver, CO (US);
First Data Corporation, Greenwood Village, CO (US);
The Western Union Company, Englewood, CO (US);
Abstract
A method for facilitating the sale of goods or services comprises receiving at an ordering system payment information relating to a payment instrument that is being used to purchase a good or a service from a merchant. The ordering system transmits a message to the merchant that includes information on the good or service being purchased to permit the merchant to provide the good or service. Funds are collected from an account associated with the payment instrument, and the ordering system transmits to a money transfer computer system information useable by the money transfer computer system to provide a cash payment to the merchant.