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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2013
Visa U.s.a. Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Phil Dixon, San Diego, CA (US);
Ayman Hammad, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Khalid El-Awady, Mt. View, CA (US);
Visa U.S.A. Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
At each of a plurality of point of sale terminals (POS) of a transit system, for each of a plurality of riders, where each rider seeks access into a facility of the transit facility by using a payment device issued by an issuer in a payment system, data is read from the payment device. The data can include an identifier for an account issued by an issuer. For each such access, a communication including the account is addressed to a network address of a system remote from the payment processing system and remote from each of POS terminals. A response to the communication is received that includes information as to the validation of the access based upon the account being on a list keep by remote system. When the received information contains the validation of the access, the rider is permitted access to the facility of the transit system and the payment device is unchanged for the fare of the access to the facility of the transit system.