Patent ID: 11861581
Assignee: BLOCK, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, by a point-of-sale (POS) device of a merchant, payment information read from a payment instrument of a customer in association with a first payment transaction between the customer and the merchant;
responsive to receiving the payment information, prompting, by the POS device, the customer to present at least a portion of a hand of the customer for imaging;
capturing, by the POS device, an image of the portion of the hand of the customer;
generating, by the POS device, a representation of the image captured by the POS device; and
providing, by the POS device and to a server, the payment information and the representation of the image captured by the POS device,
wherein the server enables a second payment transaction based on an additional representation of an additional image of the portion of the hand being received from another POS device in lieu of the payment instrument being presented to the other POS device, wherein the enabling is based on storing an association between the payment information and the representation responsive to the providing of the representation.