Data structure analytics for real-time recommendations

    公开(公告)号:US10762484B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-01

    申请号:US14871640

    申请日:2015-09-30

    Applicant: Square, Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques and arrangements for analyzing previous tickets of a customer at different merchants—specifying interactions of the customer at the different merchants—to determine subsequent recommendations to send to a particular merchant in real-time when the customer is located at the particular merchant. Other techniques and arrangements facilitate annotation of merchant tickets by the merchants to enrich the data maintained by the tickets and, in some instances, to enhance the described real-time recommendations. Still other techniques and arrangements create a merchant ticket for recording interactions between a merchant and customer upon the customer creating a reservation at the merchant for a specified future time, or being added to a waitlist of the merchant. Upon the customer arriving at the merchant proximate to the specified future time, the merchant may use the created ticket to track items ordered by the merchants, track tenders used to pay for items, and the like.

    Digital wallet for groups
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10242351B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-26

    申请号:US15800910

    申请日:2017-11-01

    Applicant: Square, Inc.

    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for a digital wallet for a group of people. A group of customers may gather for an event, e.g., a party, in which each person in the group may purchase goods or services on behalf of the group from a merchant. A customer device executing a digital wallet application program acts like a wallet for the entire group. The customer device creates group tab. The customer device associates images of each person in the group to the group tab, and submits information on the group, including the images, to a merchant device operated by the merchant. The merchant device opens the group tab for managing purchases related to the group. At the end of the event, upon receiving an input to close the tab, the customer device can receive a single bill including a total amount, and divide the total amount among people in the group.

    Anticipatory creation of point-of-sale data structures

    公开(公告)号:US10157378B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-18

    申请号:US15253172

    申请日:2016-08-31

    Applicant: Square, Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques and arrangements for analyzing previous tickets of a customer at different merchants—specifying interactions of the customer at the different merchants—to determine subsequent recommendations to send to a particular merchant in real-time when the customer is located at the particular merchant. Other techniques and arrangements facilitate annotation of merchant tickets by the merchants to enrich the data maintained by the tickets and, in some instances, to enhance the described real-time recommendations. Still other techniques and arrangements create a merchant ticket for recording interactions between a merchant and customer upon the customer creating a reservation at the merchant for a specified future time, or being added to a waitlist of the merchant. Upon the customer arriving at the merchant proximate to the specified future time, the merchant may use the created ticket to track items ordered by the merchants, track tenders used to pay for items, and the like.

    Open ticket payment handling with bill splitting

    公开(公告)号:US10043162B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-07

    申请号:US14675565

    申请日:2015-03-31

    Applicant: Square, Inc.

    Abstract: A payment handling system may operate to handle payments for the cost of an open ticket transaction in which incremental authorization operations are performed. The payment handling system may receive items to add to the open ticket, payment instruments for paying the cost of the open ticket or adjustments to any bill splitting arrangement throughout the life of the open ticket. As items are added, payment instruments are received, and/or adjustments are input, the amount allocated to the one or more payments instruments may be updated. Incremental authorization values may be determined for some or all of the payment instruments. When the amount allocated to a payment instrument exceeds the incremental authorization value, an authorization of the instrument is attempted and a new authorization value is determined. At the end of the interaction, the open ticket is closed and payment is executed.

    Authorization of cardless payment transactions

    公开(公告)号:US09633352B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-04-25

    申请号:US14017247

    申请日:2013-09-03

    Applicant: Square, Inc.

    Abstract: A method of processing a transaction between a customer and a merchant includes receiving from a mobile device of the customer or from another device of the customer an indication of consent to perform a cardless payment transaction with the merchant, receiving from the mobile device an indication that the customer is within a predetermined distance of the merchant, after receiving both the indication of consent and the indication that the customer is within the predetermined distance, sending to a computer system of the merchant an indication of the presence of the customer and personal identifying information for the customer, receiving data indicating a transaction between the customer and the merchant, and submitting the transaction to a financial service for authorization.

    Authorization of cardless payment transactions
    7.
    发明授权
    Authorization of cardless payment transactions 有权
    授权无刷支付交易

    公开(公告)号:US09576289B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-02-21

    申请号:US14017940

    申请日:2013-09-04

    Applicant: Square, Inc.

    Abstract: A method of processing a transaction between a customer and a merchant includes receiving from a mobile device of the customer or from another device of the customer an indication of consent to perform a cardless payment transaction with the merchant, receiving from the mobile device an indication that the customer is within a predetermined distance of the merchant, after receiving both the indication of consent and the indication that the customer is within the predetermined distance, sending to a computer system of the merchant an indication of the presence of the customer and personal identifying information for the customer, receiving data indicating a transaction between the customer and the merchant, and submitting the transaction to a financial service for authorization.

    Abstract translation: 处理客户和商家之间的交易的方法包括从客户的移动设备或客户的另一设备接收与商家执行无纸支付交易的同意的指示,从移动设备接收指示, 客户在商家的预定距离内,在接收到同意的指示和客户处于预定距离内的指示之前,向商家的计算机系统发送客户的存在和个人识别信息的指示 为客户接收指示客户与商户之间交易的数据,并将交易提交给金融服务机构进行授权。

    Open ticket payment handling with bill splitting

    公开(公告)号:US11080666B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-03

    申请号:US16053576

    申请日:2018-08-02

    Applicant: Square, Inc.

    Abstract: A payment handling system may operate to handle payments for the cost of an open ticket transaction in which incremental authorization operations are performed. The payment handling system may receive items to add to the open ticket, payment instruments for paying the cost of the open ticket or adjustments to any bill splitting arrangement throughout the life of the open ticket. As items are added, payment instruments are received, and/or adjustments are input, the amount allocated to the one or more payments instruments may be updated. Incremental authorization values may be determined for some or all of the payment instruments. When the amount allocated to a payment instrument exceeds the incremental authorization value, an authorization of the instrument is attempted and a new authorization value is determined. At the end of the interaction, the open ticket is closed and payment is executed.

    Quick legend receipt system
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10366381B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-30

    申请号:US15331594

    申请日:2016-10-21

    Applicant: Square, Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for enabling more efficient tipping by providing a merchant the ability to reduce the time used on manually entering tip amounts. In one embodiment, a method includes automatically generating, by a point-of-sale (POS) system, a transaction receipt that indicates a plurality of selectable tip options, wherein said automatically generating the transaction receipt is based on one or more rules specified by a user of the POS system. The method further includes causing the transaction receipt to be printed as a printed receipt. The method further includes identifying, by the POS system, a one of the plurality of selectable tip options specified by a customer on the printed receipt. Among other benefits, the disclosed techniques reduce the time and effort the merchant needs to spend on collating the tipping at end of the business day.

    Kitchen display interfaces with in flight capabilities

    公开(公告)号:US10289992B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-14

    申请号:US15185383

    申请日:2016-06-17

    Applicant: Square, Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques and arrangements for providing kitchen display interfaces with in flight capabilities. In some examples, a kitchen display system presents, via a kitchen display user interface, a first order ticket associated with a first transaction between a merchant and a first customer and a second order ticket associated with a second transaction between the merchant and a second customer. The kitchen display system can then generate a list of items based at least in part on the first order ticket and the second order ticket. In some examples, the list of items includes items from the first order ticket and the second order ticket that are in an in progress state. After generating the list of items, the kitchen display system presents the list of items via the kitchen display user interface. In some examples, the kitchen display system further sends the list of items to another merchant device.

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