Patent ID: 11880818
Assignee: BLOCK, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A service computing device comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
for a point-of-sale (POS) transaction between a customer and a merchant:
determining, by an interface control mechanism, an indication of interaction with a customer POS interface of a customer terminal;
enabling, by the interface control mechanism and based at least in part on the determining, a merchant POS interface of a merchant terminal to stand by to receive input from the customer via the customer terminal having the customer POS interface, wherein enabling the merchant POS interface to stand by to receive the input comprises causing, by the interface control mechanism, a locked mode of the merchant POS interface to engage;
enabling, by the interface control mechanism, the customer to provide the input via the customer POS interface of the customer terminal while the merchant POS interface stands by for the input; and
in response to determining that the customer POS interface has received the input, enabling, by the interface control mechanism, the merchant POS interface of the merchant terminal to complete the POS transaction, wherein enabling the merchant POS interface to complete the POS transaction comprises causing, by the interface control mechanism, the locked mode of the merchant POS interface to disengage.