SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPLIT TENDER TRANSACTION PROCESSING

• US 20090265249A1
• Filed: 06/05/2009
• Published: 10/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Liberty Peak Ventures, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Original Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company)
• Inventors: Bishop, Fred, Seth, Hitesh, Morgan, Robert E.
• Application Number:
  US12/479,672
• Publication Number:
  US 20090265249A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/21
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/02 involving a neutral party, e.g. certification authority, notary or trusted third party [TTP]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/04 Payment circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/202 Interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network details, transfer of information from host to ECR or from ECR to ECR
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/403 Solvency checks

Abstract

Facilitating commercial transactions using a payment system directory are disclosed. A payment directory and/or wireless point of sale (POS) device may be configured to use predetermined rules, a multitude of data items and/or conditions to locate a payment system, and transmit a payment authorization request from a remote location to at least one payment system, either directly, or via a payment system directory and/or a SSL Gateway.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, at a payment directory computer, a payment request for a transaction;

determining, by the payment directory computer, at least two transaction accounts for funding at least a portion of the transaction;

determining, by the payment directory computer, a first payment system and a second payment system for processing at least a portion of the transaction;

facilitating, by the payment directory computer, a first authorization request to the first payment system; and

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facilitating, by the payment directory computer, a second authorization request to the second payment system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the first payment system and the second payment system comprises querying a payment system directory.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the querying the payment system directory comprises transmitting a payment directory request to the payment system directory with at least one selection parameter, wherein the selection parameter is associated with at least one of an account owner associated with the payment request or a merchant associated with the transaction, wherein the payment system directory parses the payment directory request, creates a query based upon the parsed payment directory request and executes the query against a payment system database.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the facilitating comprises transmitting an identification of the first payment system and the second payment system to a point of service (POS) device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a POS device sends a first authorization request to the first payment system and the POS device sends a second authorization request to the second payment system.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a POS device receives a first authorization response from the first payment system and the POS device receives a second authorization response from the second payment system.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining that the payment should be funded by at least two transaction accounts comprises determining based upon a predetermined rule.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the predetermined rule is based upon at least one of the payment request, a merchant system, a requesting device, a merchant who submitted a payment request, a purchaser transaction device attribute, a transaction amount, an account holder, a transaction account, a proxy account identifier, a transaction account issuer, an alternate account associated with a transaction account, an overdraft rule, an overdraft account, an acquiring financial institution, a point of sale device, a point of service (POS) device associated with the transaction, a POS device attribute, a merchant associated with a POS device, a geographic location, a geographic location associated with the transaction, a code, a product associated with the transaction, a merchant associated with the transaction, a date a user data input, a first budget associated with a first account and with budget information, budget information associated with the payment request, an expiration date associated with a rewards program, a points balance associated with a second rewards program, an expiration date associated with a rewards program, a points balance associated with a rewards account, or an allowance.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a first authorization request amount and a second authorization request amount based upon a predetermined rule, wherein the first authorization request comprises the first authorization request amount and the second authorization request comprises the second authorization request amount.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the facilitating comprises transmitting, by the payment directory computer, a first authorization request to the first payment system and a second authorization request to the second payment system.

11. The method of clam 9, wherein at least one of the first payment response is received from the first payment system or the second payment response is received from the second payment system.

12. A method, comprising:

transmitting, by a point of sale (POS) device, a payment request for a transaction to a payment system directory; and

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receiving, by the POS device, a first authorization response and a second authorization response from, respectively a first payment system and a second payment system, wherein the transaction is to be funded by at least two transaction accounts.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising determining that payment should be funded by at least two transaction accounts.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the determining that payment should be funded by at least two transaction accounts is performed by the POS device.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the determining that payment should be funded by at least two transaction accounts is performed by the payment system directory.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising receiving identification of the first payment system and a second payment system from the payment system directory.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising transmitting, by the POS device, a first authorization request to the first payment system and a second authorization request to the second payment system.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein at least one of the first authorization request and the second authorization request is transmitted via an SSL gateway.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein the determining that payment should be funded by at least two transaction accounts is based upon at least one of the payment request, a merchant system, a requesting device, a merchant who submitted a payment request, a purchaser transaction device attribute, a transaction amount, an account holder, a transaction account, a proxy account identifier, a transaction account issuer, an alternate account associated with a transaction account, an overdraft rule, an overdraft account, an acquiring financial institution, a point of sale device, the POS device associated with the transaction, a POS device attribute, a merchant associated with the POS device, a geographic location, a geographic location associated with the transaction, a code, a product associated with the transaction, a merchant associated with the transaction, a date a user data input, a first budget associated with a first account and with budget information, budget information associated with the payment request, an expiration date associated with a rewards program, a points balance associated with a second rewards program, an expiration date associated with a rewards program, a points balance associated with a rewards account, or an allowance.

20. A tangible machine-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, if executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method comprising:

receiving, at a payment directory computer, a payment request for a transaction;

determining, by the payment directory computer, at least two transaction accounts for funding the transaction;

determining, by the payment directory computer, a first payment system and a second payment system for processing at least a portion of the transaction;

facilitating, by the payment directory computer, a first authorization request to the first payment system; and

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facilitating, by the payment directory computer, a second authorization request to the second payment system.