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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 05, 2013
Applicant:

Mastercard International Incorporated, Purchase, NY (US);

Inventors:

Patrik Smets, Nijlen, BE;

Patrick Mestre, Namur, BE;

Eddy Van de Velde, Leuven, BE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 5/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06Q 20/34 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/208 (2013.01); G06Q 20/354 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3552 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3563 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for operating a payment terminal, the method including receiving a list of eligible applications from a payment device; generating a candidate list including applications from the list of eligible applications received that are supported by the payment terminal; determining a reduced candidate list, the reduced candidate list including applications from the candidate list that match merchant-specified network preference criteria; determining a final selection of an application based on the reduced candidate list; and providing an indication of the final selection application.


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