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The title of this link is a little misleading. If I read it correctly, the patent is actually about ad-hoc pairing of roaming devices that previously couldn't a
by lemming 15y ago
The title of this link is a little misleading. If I read it correctly, the patent is actually about ad-hoc pairing of roaming devices that previously couldn't accept certain types of operations because of security regulations (i.e. PIN transactions) with terminals that can accept them. So, sales droid is on the shop floor with an iPhone, customer needs to enter a PIN to pay, sales droid can pair their iPhone with an available terminal somewhere in the store and use their iPhone essentially as a proxy to the authorised device. I don't think this would affect Square, for example.
- pitdesi 15y agoIt would, however affect most payment systems in Canada. When you eat out at a restaurant, the server comes around with a payment device that takes PINs.
- lemming 15y agoThey do here in Europe, too. But I still don't think this applies unless they're using a generic device (iPhone et al) to create an ad-hoc connection to an authorised device in order to act as a proxy to it.