Mastercard Patent

[criptix]

thanks to pistdov for this great information.

[20:47] <pistdov> http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/mastercardfilesbitcoinpatent
[20:47] <pistdov> http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20140172633.PGNR.&OS=DN/20140172633&RS=DN/20140172633

tl;dr:

[0050] In accordance with this disclosure, the global shopping cart 300 offers a flexible API framework to accept payments from any number of sources. The cart owner can pay via traditional electronic means including credit, debit, GRP, as well as ACH. Additionally, the API framework provides the capability to link to other wallets and allow the ability to pay with wallets such as MasterPass.TM., Google.TM. wallet, PayPal.TM., C-SAM.TM., ISIS.TM., Amazon.TM. payments, V.me.TM., and the like. The API can also support an interface to accept non-traditional modes or sources of payment such as Amazon virtual currency, paying with rewards points, bitcoin, virtual card numbers, and the like.

Google.TM. wallet, PayPal.TM., C-SAM.TM., ISIS.TM., Amazon.TM. payments, V.me.TM., and the like. The API can also support an interface to accept non-traditional modes or sources of payment such as Amazon virtual currency, paying with rewards points, bitcoin, virtual card numbers, and the like.


this is big no?
discuss

[BTCfan1]

isn't mastercard already involved with Xapo with their debit card? nice to see them pushing things forward

[gentlemand]

This was a correction to a Coindesk article about Xapo back in April

"MasterCard has contacted CoinDesk to reiterate that it does not have a relationship with Xapo, and that it had no knowledge of the company’s planned product launch.

The company added: “MasterCard does not have a relationship with Xapo. There is no card program currently available.”

[BTCfan1]

This was a correction to a Coindesk article about Xapo back in April

"MasterCard has contacted CoinDesk to reiterate that it does not have a relationship with Xapo, and that it had no knowledge of the company’s planned product launch.

The company added: “MasterCard does not have a relationship with Xapo. There is no card program currently available.”

oh right I recall they didn't mention who the card company was, thanks for the clarification!

[gentlemand]

I think Xapo were planning on using Mastercard. Looks like they hadn't gotten around to actually telling them the excellent news.