Curtis Andrew Steeves

US Patent:

20180336548, Nov 22, 2018

Filed:

May 16, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/596841

Inventors:

- Mountain View CA, US
Curtis Steeves - Oakland CA, US
Marley Rafson - Mountain View CA, US
Ankit Prasad - San Francisco CA, US
Tania DePasquale - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G06Q 20/32
G06Q 20/36
G06F 7/58

Abstract:

A communication broker system receives, via a communication network other than an NFC channel, from a first party NFC terminal system, a request to communicate a message to a user device. The request includes a first identification of an NFC tap received by the terminal system from the user device. The broker system receives a second identification of an NFC tap, this time from the user device. In response to receiving the first identification and the second identification, the broker system determines that the first identification and the second identification correspond to the same NFC tap. In response to determining that the first identification and the second identification correspond to the same NFC tap the broker system creates the message in accordance with the request. The broker system transmits, via a communications network other than a near field communication network, the created message to the user device.