DONGLE FACILITATED WIRELESS CONSUMER PAYMENTS

摘要

Computing systems and methods for facilitating consumer transactions in retail and other establishments include communication interfaces adapted to couple a computing system to a plurality of third party mobile electronic devices, storage components adapted to store user information, participating merchant information, or any combination thereof, and processors in communication with the communication interfaces and storage components. The processors are adapted to facilitate automatic wireless transactions between third party users of the third party mobile electronic devices and the participating merchants when the third party devices are present at the participating merchants without any affirmative activity by the third party users.

主权项

1. A computing system, comprising:
one or more communication interfaces adapted to couple the computing system to a plurality of third party mobile electronic devices, the one or more communication interfaces including at least a Bluetooth low energy protocol communication interface; one or more storage components adapted to store user information, participating merchant information, or any combination thereof; and one or more processors in communication with the one or more communication interfaces and the one or more storage components, said one or more processors being adapted to facilitate automated wireless transactions between third party users of the third party mobile electronic devices and participating merchants, wherein said automatic wireless transactions take place when the third party mobile electronic devices are present at the participating merchants without any affirmative activity by the third party users at the participating merchants.