Patents by Inventor Howard W. Fish

Howard W. Fish has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • CUSTOMER FACING DEVICE HAVING LANGUAGE TRANSLATION CAPABILITIES
    Publication number: 20090138255
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, generally, methods and systems for providing a customer facing device (CFD) with language translation capabilities. The method may include receiving a card swipe from a presentation instrument for a financial transaction at the CFD. The method may further extract location information from the presentation instrument (or other identification instrument) and, based on the extracted location information, determine a home language associated with the presentation instrument. Further, the method may present information displayed on the CFD in the home language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: First Data Corporation
    Inventors: Jake Sterling, Howard W. Fish