Patent ID: 11922396
Assignee: BLOCK, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A method comprising:
receiving, by one or more servers of a payment service and from a first electronic device, a first indication of visual indicia printed on one or more surfaces of a wireless payment reader;
based at least in part on the first indication of the visual indicia and on pairing data stored a database associated with the payment service, determining, by the one or more servers, that the wireless payment reader is not paired;
generating, by the one or more servers, first instructions for pairing the first electronic device with the wireless payment reader via a pairing handshake over a short-range wireless network;
sending, by the one or more servers and to the first electronic device, the first instructions;
updating, by the one or more servers, the pairing data to updated pairing data, wherein the updated pairing data indicates the pairing of the first electronic device to the wireless payment reader, and wherein the wireless payment reader is in a connected-sleep power state responsive to the pairing;
receiving, by the one or more servers and from a second electronic device, a second indication of the visual indicia;
based at least in part on the second indication of the visual indicia printed on the one or more surfaces of the wireless payment reader, identifying, by the one or more servers, the wireless payment reader;
based at least in part on the updated pairing data, determining, by the one or more servers, that the wireless payment reader is paired with the first electronic device; and
based on determining, by the one or more servers, that the wireless payment reader is associated with the first electronic device:
causing, by the one or more servers, transitioning of the wireless payment reader from the connected-sleep power state to a ready-for-payment power state, wherein the ready-for-payment power state consumes more power than the connected-sleep power state, and wherein payment via the wireless payment reader requires being in the ready-for-payment power state; and
sending, by the one or more servers and to the second electronic device and at a second time, second instructions for facilitating a payment transaction between the first electronic device and the second electronic device via the wireless payment reader without sending the first electronic device any instructions for associating the first electronic device with the wireless payment reader at the second time.