Patent ID: 11893567
Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A system comprising:
a merchant terminal comprising at least one processor; and
an application executable by the merchant terminal, the application causing the merchant terminal to at least:
receive user information from a user device, wherein the user information comprises identifying information about a user;
determine a location of a Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) beacon within a facility of a merchant by extracting a beacon identifier from the user information received from the user device, the beacon identifier comprising identifying information about the beacon with which the user device is in communication;
determine that a user location of the user device based upon the beacon identifier is in proximity to the merchant terminal, wherein proximity comprises a pre-defined distance that is determined based upon a signal strength of the wireless connection between the user device and the merchant terminal that is translated to a distance;
transmit merchant information to the user device in proximity to the merchant terminal;
obtain transaction details associated with a transaction between the merchant terminal and a user device;
initiate the transaction between the merchant terminal and the user device based upon the transaction details, in response to the user device generating a first transaction confirmation that is sent to at least one of a computing device associated with a card issuer or the merchant terminal; and
transmit a second transaction confirmation to the computing device.