Patent ID: 11893561
Assignee: ATX INNOVATIONS INC
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. A method for facilitating a transaction between a select venue and a user of a wireless mobile communication device, the method comprising:
providing from a central server to a client application implemented on the wireless mobile communication device associated with the user a set of venues that offer goods or services, the venue being a bar or restaurant;
receiving a selection of the select venue of the set of venues from the client application through the wireless communication network;
initiating with the central server communication between a point of sale system associated with the select venue and the client application in response to receiving the selection of the select venue, wherein initiating communication between the point of sale system associated with the select venue includes negotiating an encryption key between the client application and merchant side software associated with the point of sale system associated with the select venue;
receiving at the point of sale system from the client application via the wireless communication network an alphanumeric code for locating the user within the select venue and corresponding to the transaction between the select venue that utilizes the point of sale system and the user of the wireless mobile communications device;
providing to the client application implemented by the wireless mobile communications device a bill associated with the transaction, wherein the transaction includes a compensation amount for the good or the service;
receiving encrypted payment information associated with the user of the wireless mobile communications device from the client application implemented by the wireless mobile communications device, via a wireless communication network, at the point of sale system associated with the select venue, the encrypted payment information including a credit or debit card number;
receiving a payment request for the transaction associated with the alphanumeric code from the client application implemented by the wireless mobile communications device, via the wireless communication network, at the point of sale system; and
processing the payment request at the point of sale system using the payment information associated with the user of the wireless mobile communications device.