Processing transactions of different payment devices of the same issuer account
First Claim
1. At each of a plurality of point of sale terminals (POS) of a merchant, for each of a plurality of consumers each seeking to conduct a transaction with the merchant for a service at a cost by using a payment device issued by an issuer in a payment system, a method comprising:
- reading, at the point of sale terminal of the merchant, data from a data storage region of the payment device that includes;
a Primary Account Number (PAN) comprising an identifier of the issuer and an identifier of a consumer account usable to conduct transactions with a plurality of merchants including the merchant; and
a payment device distinguishing code distinct from the PAN, assigned by the issuer and uniquely identifying the payment device with respect to the PAN among a plurality of payment devices that are associated with the PAN;
determining, at the point of sale terminal of the merchant, a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) of the payment device based at least in part on both the PAN and the payment device distinguishing code read from the data storage region of the payment device;
determining a fee for the service based at least in part on the GUID, wherein a plurality of GUIDs are associated with a same PAN and the determined fee for the service is different for different GUIDs of the plurality of GUIDs associated with the same PAN; and
sending the GUID and the fee for processing by the payment system.
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Abstract
Each portable payment device associated with a single account within a payment processing system is distinguished using track data. The track data from the portable payment device is read at each of a plurality of merchant point of sale terminals (POS). Rather than relying on the PAN alone, a merchant may utilizes the track data, or a proxy thereof, as the unique identifier for the portable payment device. The merchant may then process transactions involving the portable payment device based on the unique identifier. For example, in the transit environment the transit fare for each rider with different portable payment devices but the same account can be calculated using the unique identifier, such as the full track data read from both tracks of the corresponding portable payment devices.
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27 Claims
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1. At each of a plurality of point of sale terminals (POS) of a merchant, for each of a plurality of consumers each seeking to conduct a transaction with the merchant for a service at a cost by using a payment device issued by an issuer in a payment system, a method comprising:
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reading, at the point of sale terminal of the merchant, data from a data storage region of the payment device that includes; a Primary Account Number (PAN) comprising an identifier of the issuer and an identifier of a consumer account usable to conduct transactions with a plurality of merchants including the merchant; and a payment device distinguishing code distinct from the PAN, assigned by the issuer and uniquely identifying the payment device with respect to the PAN among a plurality of payment devices that are associated with the PAN; determining, at the point of sale terminal of the merchant, a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) of the payment device based at least in part on both the PAN and the payment device distinguishing code read from the data storage region of the payment device; determining a fee for the service based at least in part on the GUID, wherein a plurality of GUIDs are associated with a same PAN and the determined fee for the service is different for different GUIDs of the plurality of GUIDs associated with the same PAN; and sending the GUID and the fee for processing by the payment system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method comprising:
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receiving, for each of a plurality of transactions, transaction application data from a portable consumer device, wherein; the transaction application data of each said portable consumer device has a predetermined data field configuration for use with a reader of a merchant; the predetermined data field configuration of the transaction application data includes; a Primary Account Number (PAN) comprising an identifier of an issuer of the portable consumer device and an identifier of a consumer account usable to conduct transactions with a plurality of merchants including the merchant; and an issuer discretionary code distinct from the PAN, assigned by the issuer and uniquely identifying the portable consumer device with respect to the PAN among a plurality of portable consumer devices that are associated with the PAN; determining a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) of the portable consumer device based at least in part on both the PAN and the issuer discretionary code received from the portable consumer device; determining a fee for a service based at least in part on the GUID, wherein a plurality of GUIDs are associated with a same PAN and the determined fee for the service is different for different GUIDs of the plurality of GUIDs associated with the same PAN; and providing the GUID and the fee for processing by a payment system. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A method comprising:
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reading, at a payment device reader of a merchant, data from a data storage region of a payment device issued by an issuer in a payment system, wherein; the data conforms to a magnetic stripe data (MSD) configuration in a track one/track two format; the data in the track one/track two format includes; a Primary Account Number (PAN) comprising an identifier of the issuer and an identifier of a consumer account usable to conduct transactions with a plurality of merchants including the merchant; and an issuer discretionary code distinct from the PAN and uniquely identifying the payment device with respect to the PAN among a plurality of payment devices that are associated with the PAN; and determining, at the payment device reader, a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) of the payment device based at least in part on both the PAN and the issuer discretionary code read from the data storage region of the payment device; and providing the GUID as part of processing a transaction with the payment system, wherein a plurality of GUIDs are associated with a same PAN and a determined fee for a service is different for different GUIDs of the plurality of GUIDs associated with the same PAN. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27)
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