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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Jack Dorsey, San Francisco, CA (US);
William Henderson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian Grassadonia, San Francisco, CA (US);
James M. McKelvey, Pensacola, FL (US);
Xuancong Wen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A decoding system runs on a mobile device and is coupled to a payment system. The decoding engine decodes signals produced from a read of a first party's financial transaction card. A transaction engine runs on the mobile device and is coupled to the decoding engine. The transaction engine receives as its input decoded first party's financial transaction card information from the decoding engine. A payment system, in communication with the transaction engine, includes at least one of, a user database, a product database, and transaction database.