133 results about "Point of service" patented technology

The solution described herein provides an innovative use of remote services technology integrated with service personnel onsite at the point of service, such as a consumer repair outlet, to provide a pool of technical support resources to service a widely distributed resource need, such as support and repair resource needs of a chain of consumer outlets or an aggregated group of single proprietor consumer outlets. With this solution, qualified technical resources are provided from a central location to service a widely distributed retail environment. This is on-demand online remote support service is called or referred to as “support from a spigot.” The distribution method enables the delivery of higher quality, more reliable and overall lower cost services. Instead of requiring dedicated technical resources at each location, lower skilled labor may be deployed at the location to enable the remote technical support services process.

A system and method for remitting payment from a consumer's credit or stored value account by digital presentations of account information are described. A merchant may create one or more merchant account at a point-of-sale service site (“POS service site”) and associate one or more merchant portable computing devices (“MPCDs”) with one or more of the merchant accounts. Each MPCD may be configured to receive customer data from a customer via one of a visual capture and a wireless communication, such as a near field communication (“NFC”) or a machine-readable optical code. The customer data may be received from an NFC-capable physical token such as an EMV card, or a virtual token presented by a customer portable computing device (“CPCD”) using a NFC or a machine-readable optical code. Each MPCD may contain a point-of-sale payment application supplied by the POS service site that may capture data representative of a consumer account from the received customer data.

A system generally for personalizing and synchronizing fob data in the context of a distributed transaction system is disclosed. A dynamic fob synchronization system may comprise point of service (POS) devices configured with transponder-readers to initiate a transaction in conjunction with a fob, an enterprise data collection unit, and a fob object database update system. An exemplary dynamic synchronization system (DSS) may comprise various fob POS devices, a secure support client server, a fob object database update system (FODUS), one or more enterprise data synchronization interfaces (EDSI), an update logic system, one or more enterprise data collection units (EDCUs), and one or more fob POS devices configured to interoperably accept and interface with fobs. In an exemplary embodiment, DSS may comprise a personalization system and an account maintenance system configured to communicate with FODUS. Personalization of multi-function fobs may be accomplished using a security server configured to generate and/or retrieve cryptographic key information from multiple enterprise key systems during the final phase of the fob issuance process.

A system and method providing a centralized network for facilitating travel reservations and/or services The system comprises a network with hub sites that provide a centralized connection for Global Distribution Systems/Computer Reservation Systems, travel vendors, and travel office point of service terminals The travel office point of service terminals provide a plurality of modules for various travel related applications such as a low fare search module, a computer telephony integration module, a super passenger name record database, a customer database, a trip planning module, a customer relationship management module, a workflow module, and an integrated e-mail booking system.

A system and method of managing and maintaining electronic health care records on a web based database controlled by the patient where the electronic health care records are updated on the web based database immediately at the point of service. A user patient logs into the system and authorizes health care providers to have access to that user patient's medical records database. These health care providers generate electronic medical records pertaining to the user patient. These electronic medical records are uploaded onto the user patient's database and sorted by HL7/FHIR resource code in that database. The electronic medical records are immediately available to the patient and authorized health care providers through the patient's medical records management system database. Additionally, the electronic medical records of all patients on the medical records management system database are available to be searched as a function of medically relevant data stored on the database.

An apparatus for providing security to media independent handover service includes a point of service for providing the media independent handover services including an independent authenticator. The independent authenticator authenticates candidate access networks prior to the handover of the mobile devices from serving access networks to the candidate access networks, where each of the serving access networks and the candidate access networks belong to a plurality of heterogeneous access networks having the specific serving media. An access controller applies an access control through an access authentication with the point of service providing the media independent handover services through an authentication server, in which when the access authentication is established between the point of service and the authentication server, the mobile devices are authorized to access the media independent handover services through the point of service for the mobile devices attached between heterogeneous media.

The present invention provides a system for detecting subscription fraud in connection with any consumer related service which requires continuous access and payment over time. The system includes: means for determining a subscription fraudster or someone whom has not fulfilled previous payment obligations for access to service, at or soon after the point of service application, by comparing at least one biometric value against those on file which are associated with past payment default; means of utilizing non-threshold and non-market characteristic profile information which is not part of the data captured on the service order application for identifying an individual who has defrauded or defaulted on previous subscriptions for consumer services; means for viewing, storing, forwarding, and comparing biometric and non-application subscriber profile data which is not based on thresholds, transactions, nor market characteristics across many points of service activation, billing, and management; and means for combining and sharing biometric and user profile data across multiple service providers to restrict access to services at the time or shortly after application processing.

The disclosed embodiments relate generally to a method and system identifying health care providers who are authorized to submit health care claims to health insurer or claims processor. Also provided is a system and method verifying that providers who submit claims are operated in location(s) attested and that those location(s) are legitimate sites for delivery of healthcare services. Utilized are novel algorithms to compare information from provider's credit card terminal to information commonly held by insurance company and identify beneficiaries and dependents who are eligible to receive services capturing health care encounter at point of service, and capturing location and time of health care encounter of authorized beneficiary or dependent at the authorized location of a provider. Further is a process and system to verify healthcare transaction seeking payment, submitted by the provider, which is matched against information created, and used to verify certain healthcare transactions for approval and/or payment.

The present invention provides, in one aspect, a system and method for managing authentication tokens that operate across multiple types of physical resources binding the tokens to one or more external electronic Identity Providers; generating tokens; authenticating the tokens at multiple physical resources; managing access to physical resources by linking the tokens to the electronic identities; translating the tokens to the appropriate physical token type based on infrastructure services available at the point of service; validating tokens at the physical resource; tracking and conveying usage information; and making use of social group relationships and other data defined by individual usage to, among other things, simplify the process of granting user-generated credentials to persons connected to a given individual via the Identity Provider or an external social network, for example.

An electronic transactions system suitable for payment services wherein certain merchants needing to accept online micro-payments from holders of mainstream payment cards are equipped with an online Point Of Service system capable of communicating directly with an operator acting on behalf of the issuer of the cards of the payers via a dedicated data communication protocol to obtain an authorization for micro-payments without transiting through a separate acquirer and interchange network, whereas the card-holder payer needs only to fund a single account for both micro-payments with those certain merchants and regular payments with all other merchants where their card is accepted.

A network address translation penetration method comprises: step 120, user A obtains IP address of Pure Internet Access and service port from network address translation equipment, notifies user server of the IP address with private network IP address and service port and registers; step 130, other user inquires user server when needs to call user A to obtain user A IP address of Pure Internet Access and service port and private network IP address and service port information; step 140, other user calls user A according to user A IP address of Pure Internet Access and service port and private network IP address and service port. The invention solves problem of asymmetric NAT penetration without need of transfer proxy server, avoids low transmission efficiency.

Described is a Point-of-Service device comprising a touch screen having an input receiving area, a stylus and a mounting arrangement receiving the stylus. When the stylus is received in the mounting arrangement, the stylus at least partially covers the input receiving area of the touch screen.

Disclosed are the methods and systems for transferring value from as first account to a second account via a consumer device. The methods may be consumer or merchant driven and may involve transferring value to peers, oneself, or a third party account holder with or without the creation of a user account. Based on information input by a user, various financial systems interact in a manner that results in creation of an escrow account and effectuates transfer of value from a funding account through that escrow account to a receiving account. Such novel methods allow for previously unavailable transfers of value. In certain embodiments, the methods and systems also encompass creation of a digital equivalent of the value and using the digital equivalent to make payments at as point of service.

An integrated travel service broker for facilitating transactions between travel inventory suppliers and buyers is disclosed. The system comprises a network with hub sites that provide a centralized connection for travel office point of service terminals and travel vendor databases and inventories. A user may purchase travel inventory by browsing a travel service broker database and a travel history database for travel itineraries, then selecting one of the travel itineraries and placing an order for travel services. The user also browses opaque bids placed in response to the order and selects one of the bids for purchase.