Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods, systems and computer program products for prepayment towards goods or services at point-of-sale terminals
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Application No.: US17638734Application Date: 2020-07-17
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Publication No.: US11769133B2Publication Date: 2023-09-26
- Inventor: Anurag Aggarwal , Shubhangi Sengar , Rakesh Kumar Patel , Aditya Koduri
- Applicant: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
- Applicant Address: US NY Purchase
- Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Purchase
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: IN 1911034517 2019.08.27
- International Application: PCT/US2020/042467 2020.07.17
- International Announcement: WO2021/040904A 2021.03.04
- Date entered country: 2022-02-25
- Main IPC: G06Q20/28
- IPC: G06Q20/28 ; G06Q20/06 ; G06Q20/20 ; G06Q20/40

Abstract:
The invention provides systems, methods and computer program products for implementing a prepaid currency transaction. The invention comprises (i) receiving a payment instruction for incrementing or debiting a prepaid currency value stored in a first payment account, (ii) implementing the payment instruction, (iii) identifying a set of POS terminals for implementing a memory update memory within each POS terminal in the identified set of POS terminals, wherein the memory update comprises recording an incremented or decremented prepaid currency value stored in the first payment account as a result of implementing the payment instruction, and (iv) performing the memory update within each POS terminal in the identified set of POS terminals.
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