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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2014
Groupon, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Christopher Dwyer Watson, New York, NY (US);
Benjamin Pierce McKean, New York, NY (US);
Sean Nicholas Harper, Evanston, IL (US);
Josh Krall, San Francisco, CA (US);
Qi Li, San Francisco, CA (US);
GROUPON, INC., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Systems and related methods facilitating secure payments are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a system including a payment gateway server, a tokenizer server and a detokenizer server. The payment gateway server may receive payment card data from a merchant device and provide the payment data the tokenizer server. The tokenizer server may be configured to generate one or more tokens based on the payment data and provide the one or more tokens to the payment gateway server. During payment processing, the payment gateway server may be configured to provide the one or more tokens to the detokenizer server configured to determine the payment data based on the one or more tokens to facilitate completion of a financial transaction. In some embodiments, the one or more tokens may be stored for subsequent payments. Furthermore, some embodiments may provide for secure promotion redemptions in addition or alternative to payments.