Methods and Devices for Conducting Payment Transactions

摘要

Methods and devices for of conducting a payment transaction between a mobile terminal and a payment terminal in communication with a payment backend system involve: (a) sending a unique mobile terminal identifier from the mobile terminal to the payment backend system; (b) returning a cryptogram from the payment backend system to the mobile terminal, wherein the cryptogram comprises a unique transaction identifier in encrypted form; (c) transforming the cryptogram into a proximity payment token such that the proximity payment token contains the unique transaction identifier in encrypted form and transmitting the proximity payment token to the payment terminal via a proximity communication channel; (d) forwarding a transaction record including the unique transaction identifier in encrypted form and the amount of the payment transaction from the payment terminal to the payment backend system; and (e) decrypting the unique transaction data identifier in encrypted form and processing the payment transaction.