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Wireless portable consumer electronics device facilitating multi-range transactions

  • US 8,096,468 B2
  • Filed: 10/30/2007
  • Issued: 01/17/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A portable consumer electronics device comprising:

  • means for addressing, to another said portable consumer electronics device, a short range wireless communication containing a request for payment for a transaction having a value to be credited to an account in a payment system;

    means for receiving, from the another said portable consumer electronics device, a short range wireless communication containing an authorization of the request for payment for the transaction;

    means for addressing, to the payment system, a long range wireless communication containing at least a part of the authorization of the request for payment for the transaction sufficient to credit the value corresponding to the transaction to the account in the payment system; and

    means for addressing, to the another said portable consumer electronics device, a short range wireless communication containing a receipt memorializing the transaction.

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