IP Library Granted Patent US 10,726,399
Granted Patent B2
US 10,726,399 · App. 15/582,300 · Granted Jul 28, 2020

Item-level information collection for interactive payment experience

Inventors: Paul Aaron (San Francisco, CA); Zachary Brock (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee: Square, Inc.
G06Q20/0453G06Q20/04G06Q20/12G06Q20/202G06Q20/204G06Q20/322G06Q20/40G06Q20/42
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Patent No.
US 10,726,399
App. No.
15/582,300
Granted
Jul 28, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a technology for collecting item-level transaction information for interactive payment experience. According to one embodiment, a merchant server can maintain a database including the information of financial accounts having a particular classification. The classification indicates that these financial accounts are associated with a payment service system. When the merchant server determines a requested financial transaction involves a financial account classified in the database, the merchant server transmits the item-level transaction information to the payment service system. The payment service system receives the item-level transaction information in real-time or near real-time and generates an interactive digital transaction receipt for a consumer.

Claims (24)

1. A method comprising:

maintaining, at a first computer system of a merchant, a database identifying financial accounts associated with an interactive payment experience service;

receiving, from a second computer system of the interactive payment experience service, first data representing an update to the database, the first data indicating that a financial account of a user is associated with the interactive payment experience service;

receiving, at the first computer system, a first request to initiate a payment transaction associated with the financial account;

sending, from the first computer system to the second computer system, second data indicating that the payment transaction has been initiated;

generating transaction information associated with the payment transaction;

sending the transaction information from the first computer system to a third computer system of a card payment network system, wherein sending the transaction information is part of a payment transaction message flow between the merchant and the card payment network system;

receiving, at the first computer system, an indication that the payment transaction is authorized;

generating, based at least in part on the financial account being associated with the interactive payment experience and receiving the indication, item-level information about at least one of good or services associated with the payment transaction;

sending the item-level information from the first computer system to the second computer system;

receiving, at the second computer system and from the first computer system, the item-level information;

generating a second request for a digital transaction receipt that indicates the at least one of the goods or the services;

sending the second request from the first computer system to the second computer system;

generating, at the second computer system and based at least in part on receiving the item-level information, the digital transaction receipt; and

transmitting, from the second computer system to a mobile device associated with the user, the digital transaction receipt.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the indication comprises a first indication, and wherein the first request is based at least in part on receiving a second indication that a payment object has been swiped through a card reader associated with the first computer system.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving, at the first computing device and based at least in part on completing the payment transaction, a process fee discount in exchange for the item-level information.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, at the first computing system and from the second computer system, a service confirmation code confirming that the merchant has supplied the item-level information;

sending, from the first computing system, the service confirmation code to the card payment network system; and

receiving, based at least in part on the service confirmation code, a processing fee discount for the payment transaction.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the indication comprises a first indication, the digital transaction receipt comprises an interactive interface that enables the user to specify a gratuity amount, the method further comprising:

receiving, at the first computing system and from the mobile device, a second indication of the gratuity amount; and

sending, from the first computer system to the second computer system and based at least in part on receiving the second indication, third data representing a request to adjust a total payment amount of the payment transaction.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 5, 2022
From: SQUARE, INC.
To: BLOCK, INC.
Reel/Frame 058646/0154 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 28, 2017
From: AARON, PAUL; BROCK, ZACHARY
To: SQUARE, INC.
Reel/Frame 042186/0744 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 14329658 · Jul 11, 2014
Provisional Application 62000251 · May 19, 2014
Related Publication 20180150807A1 · May 31, 2018
Cited By (2)
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