Patent ID: 9489670
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G06K,G06Q,H04B

Claim Text:
1. A contactless short range payment methodology comprising: determining if a near field communication payment terminal is present; if it is determined that a near field payment terminal is not present, determining if a laser barcode scanner is present, wherein determining if the laser bar code scanner is present comprises receiving light from the laser bar code scanner using an optical sensor and, using a controller operably coupled to the optical sensor, determining if the received light is laser light having a frequency substantially corresponding to the laser barcode scanner; if it is determined that the laser barcode scanner is present, positioning a light emitter in optical communication with the laser barcode scanner; and causing the light emitter to pulse at a frequency sensible by a laser barcode scanner and in a manner to emit pulses of light that emulate light reflected from a plurality of barcodes scanned by the laser barcode scanner, said plurality of barcodes encoding payment data.