Cable television payment and load system using smart card
CA 2398419 C · Owner: Visa International Service Association · Inventors: Roberts, Shay; Cutino, Suzanne C.; Davis, Virgil M.
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An architecture and system loads and uses a smart card for payment of goods and/or services purchased on-line over the Internet or directly from a cable provider. A set-top box module on a set-top box controls the interaction with a consumer and interfaces to a card reader which accepts a smart card. Debiting works in conjunction with a merchant server and a merchant payment server. In addition, debiting works in conjunction with a cable head end server and a cable head end payment server. Loading works in conjunction with a bank server and a load server. Alternatively loading functions in , conjunction with a load server when value is loaded from a pre-funded account. To load …
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- Filed March 8, 2001 and granted May 13, 2014. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 8, 2021.
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