Patents Assigned to VeriFone, Inc.
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Patent number: 9436856Abstract: A magnetic stripe card reader including a magnetic stripe reader head support base having an aperture communicating with a card swipe slot, a magnetic stripe reader head, a magnetic stripe reader head bracket supporting the magnetic stripe reader head at least partially in the aperture and a pair of coil springs associated with the magnetic strip reader head bracket and the magnetic stripe reader head support base and arranged such that resilient axial retraction of the magnetic stripe reader head in the aperture is permitted with respect to the card swipe slot.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: VERIFONE, INC.Inventors: Igal Yosef Yanko, Erik Neil Larson, Pao-Ling Chen
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Patent number: 9436293Abstract: A data entry device including a housing including a top housing portion including key apertures, a plurality of data entry keys mounted in the housing to have data entry key depression travel paths in the housing, the plurality of data entry keys being associated with a substrate, which is disposed below the top housing portion and anti-tampering electrical conductors arranged between the top housing portion and the substrate thereby to prevent unauthorized access to the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: VERIFONE, INC.Inventor: Dave Faoro
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Patent number: 9424573Abstract: Systems and methods for performing settlement of token access transactions are provided. In one embodiment, the invention provides for batch processing bank card transactions, including receiving transaction records for a plurality of bank card transactions, wherein at least some of the transaction records include encrypted token information; determining whether the transaction records contain encrypted token information; decrypting the encrypted token information for a transaction record that is determined to have encrypted token information; and providing clear text token information obtained by decrypting the encrypted token information for a transaction record for transaction settlement.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: VeriFone, Inc.Inventors: Clay von Mueller, Scott R. Yale, Patrick K. Hazel, Paul Elbridge Catinella
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Publication number: 20160239836Abstract: Systems and methods for performing a secure transaction provided. In one embodiment, the method includes: reading data on a command token, reading data on a token; encrypting the token data with a key; encrypting an authentication data with a clear text token data; and transmitting the encrypted authentication data with the encrypted token data to a remote device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2016Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicant: VeriFone, Inc.Inventors: Clay von Mueller, Mihir Bellare, Scott Yale, Patrick K. Hazel, Paul Elbridge Catinella
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Patent number: 9390601Abstract: An anti-tampering protection assembly for sensing tampering with at least one conductor, the anti-tampering protection assembly including unpredictably varying signal generating circuitry, connected to the at least one conductor, for providing unpredictably varying signals on the at least conductor and tampering sensing circuitry for sensing tampering with the at least one conductor.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2014Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: VERIFONE, INC.Inventors: Efi Sasson, Yuval Ben-Zion, Ofer Itshakey
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Publication number: 20160197648Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for fast-synching a wireless Bluetooth connection using a first device's wireless identifier is provided. One implementation of the present invention modulates the wireless identifier as a sonic Bluetooth code over a sonic carrier signal. To send the wireless identifier, one implementation accesses a storage area associated with the first wireless device holding the sonic carrier signal. Aspects of the invention then transmit the sonic Bluetooth code as modulated over the sonic carrier signal. A sonic transducer, such as a microphone on the second wireless device, receives the sonic carrier signal and wireless identifier for demodulation. In response, the second wireless device requests to establish a physical channel with the first wireless device using the wireless identifier received over the sonic carrier signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2016Publication date: July 7, 2016Applicant: Verifone, Inc.Inventor: Brett Paulson
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Publication number: 20160188912Abstract: A secure data entry device including a housing having at least one housing element, at least one additional element located within the housing, at least one force sensitive switch, employing at least one force sensitive film, disposed within the housing in force sensing engagement with at least one of the at least one housing element and the at least one additional element and arranged to sense tamper induced displacement thereof relative to at least another one of the at least one housing element and the at least one additional element and to provide an electrical output indicating tampering and a tampering responsive circuit, responsive to the electrical output indicating tampering.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2014Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: VERIFONE INC.Inventors: Richard Hee Hock NEO, Thai Wee ANG
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Publication number: 20160180119Abstract: A magnetic stripe card reader including a magnetic stripe reader head support base having an aperture communicating with a card swipe slot, a magnetic stripe reader head, a magnetic stripe reader head bracket supporting the magnetic stripe reader head at least partially in the aperture and a pair of coil springs associated with the magnetic strip reader head bracket and the magnetic stripe reader head support base and arranged such that resilient axial retraction of the magnetic stripe reader head in the aperture is permitted with respect to the card swipe slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2014Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: VERIFONE INC.Inventors: Igal Yosef YANKO, Erik Neil LARSON, Pao-Ling CHEN
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Patent number: 9361617Abstract: Systems and methods for enciphering data are provided. In one embodiment, information is enciphered using a variable block length cipher that returns the encrypted symbol set in the same format as the plaintext symbol set. The cipher can be based on DES, AES or other block ciphers. In one example implementation a method for enciphering token information the invention provides for enciphering token information by constructing a tweak of a defined length using token information; converting the tweak to a bit string of a defined size to form a first parameter; converting a number of digits of plaintext to a byte string of a defined size to form a second parameter, wherein the number of digits converted varies; defining a data encryption standard key; applying the data encryption standard key to the first and second parameters; computing a specified number of encryption rounds; and receiving enciphered token information.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2009Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: VeriFone, Inc.Inventors: Clay von Mueller, Mihir Bellare
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Publication number: 20160139678Abstract: A secure keypad including a housing, a keymat within the housing defining a plurality of depressible keys and including at least one conductive trace traversing at least some of the depressible keys, a key contact board within the housing and being cooperative with the keymat for providing data entry inputs responsive to depression of the depressible keys and a tamper detection circuit coupled to the conductive trace for providing an output indication of tampering with the keypad responsive to a change in the electrical characteristics of the conductive trace resulting from the tampering.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Applicant: VERIFONE, INC.Inventor: Thai Wee ANG
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Publication number: 20160117715Abstract: An electronic offer system including a payment instrument reader for reading payment instrument data from a payment instrument and an offer-payment instrument account association (O-PIAA) server communicating with the payment instrument reader and automatically operative in response to reading of the payment instrument data by the payment instrument reader to associate at least one offer in an offer program with a payment instrument account indicated by the payment instrument data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2015Publication date: April 28, 2016Applicant: VERIFONE, INC.Inventors: Jason GROSS, Senthilkumaran KANAGARATNAM, Jay David PARSONS
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Patent number: 9294268Abstract: Systems and methods for performing a secure transaction provided. In one embodiment, the method includes: reading data on a command token, reading data on a token; encrypting the token data with a key; encrypting an authentication data with a clear text token data; and transmitting the encrypted authentication data with the encrypted token data to a remote device.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: VeriFone, Inc.Inventors: Clay von Mueller, Mihir Bellare, Scott R. Yale, Patrick K. Hazel, Paul Elbridge Catinella
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Patent number: 9293825Abstract: An antenna system suitable for use with contactless transaction devices, the antenna system including a reader, a primary loop antenna having a first end and a second end, each one of the first and second ends being coupled to the reader and at least one secondary loop antenna galvanically connected to the primary loop antenna at a single connection point and positioned with respect to the primary loop antenna so as to make capacitive coupling therebetween negligible.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: VERIFONE, INC.Inventor: Marinel Salaver Rivera
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Patent number: 9280768Abstract: A transaction system including at least two transaction communicators, at least one of which is a mobile communicator, at least one of the at least two transaction communicators having sequential visually sensible indicia generation functionality operative to generate a time sequence of indicia which provides at least transaction data and at least one of the at least two transaction communicators having sequential visually sensible indicia receiving functionality and transaction data extraction functionality capable of extracting at least the transaction data from the time sequence of particular indicia, whereby a time sequence of indicia which provides at least transaction data is transmitted from one of the at least two transaction communicators to another of the at least two transaction communicators.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2011Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: VERIFONE, INC.Inventors: Robert Dykes, Dan Loomis
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Patent number: 9276668Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for fast-synching a wireless Bluetooth connection using a first device's wireless identifier is provided. One implementation of the present invention modulates the wireless identifier as a sonic Bluetooth code over a sonic carrier signal. To send the wireless identifier, one implementation accesses a storage area associated with the first wireless device holding the sonic carrier signal. Aspects of the invention then transmit the sonic Bluetooth code as modulated over the sonic carrier signal. A sonic transducer, such as a microphone on the second wireless device, receives the sonic carrier signal and wireless identifier for demodulation. In response, the second wireless device requests to establish a physical channel with the first wireless device using the wireless identifier received over the sonic carrier signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: VeriFone, Inc.Inventor: Brett Paulson
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Patent number: 9275528Abstract: A data entry device including a housing formed of at least two portions, data entry circuitry located within the housing, at least one case-open switch assembly operative to sense when the housing is opened and tamper indication circuitry operative to receive an input from the at least one case-open switch assembly and to provide an output indication of possible tampering with the data entry circuitry located within the housing. The at least one case-open switch assembly includes an arrangement of electrical contacts arranged on a base surface and a resiliently deformable conductive element, which defines a short circuit between at least some of the arrangement of electrical contacts only when the housing is closed.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: VERIFONE, INC.Inventors: Richard H. H. Neo, Mehran Mirkazemi-Moud, John Henry Barrowman, Christian Eric Schulz
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Patent number: 9250709Abstract: A data entry device including a housing formed of at least two portions, data entry circuitry located within the housing, at least one case-open switch assembly operative to sense when the housing is opened and tamper indication circuitry operative to receive an input from the at least one case-open switch assembly and to provide an output indication of possible tampering with the data entry circuitry located within the housing, the at least one case-open switch assembly including an arrangement of electrical contacts including at least first, second and third contacts and a displaceable conductive element, the tamper indication circuitry and the third contact together being operative such that when the third contact is short circuited to at least one of the first contact, the second contact and another contact, an output indication of possible tampering is provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2015Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: VERIFONE, INC.Inventors: Mehran Mirkazemi-Moud, John Barrowman, Christian Eric Schulz, Arnon Aviv, Amihay Avital, Sergey Meron, Dave Faoro
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Publication number: 20160027003Abstract: A system for facilitating secure transactions between a purchaser and a vendor is provided. The system might include a purchaser token data capture device for reading token data into the system, an encryption module for encrypting the token data and a network based vendor input form for communicating the encrypted token data to the vendor. The system might further include a purchaser terminal for routing the encrypted token data to a transaction processing network or a vendor for providing payment and confirmation to the vendor of an authorized token.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: VeriFone, Inc.Inventors: PATRICK K. HAZEL, Scott Yale, Clay von Mueller
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Publication number: 20160026275Abstract: A data entry device including a housing, data entry circuitry located within the housing, a keypad mounted in the housing and having a plurality of movable key elements which, when depressed, are displaced to at least a predetermined extent from a first location within the housing to a second location within the housing and Optical Finger Navigation (OFN) circuitry mounted inside the housing, being operative for sensing at least some of the plurality of movable key elements when depressed and displaced to at least the predetermined extent from the first location within the housing to the second location within the housing and providing a key displacement output indicating key displacement to the data entry circuitry.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: VERIFONE, INC.Inventors: John Henry BARROWMAN, Doug Leigh MANCHESTER, William Martin JOHANSEN, JR.
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Patent number: 9213869Abstract: A magnetic stripe reading device including a magnetic head assembly including a mounting element defining a circumferential anti-tampering enclosure and at least one information reading sensor having output contacts, a protective layer including at least one protective grid and at least one anti-tampering contact array including at least two electrical contacts, at least one resiliently deformable conductive element arranged to selectably provide a galvanic interconnection between the electrical contacts, a closure element fixed to the assembly in a secure orientation to displace the deformable conductive element into galvanic interconnection contact with the electrical contacts, whereby tampering with the closure element causes the deformable conductive element to break the galvanic interconnection contact and a flat cable coupled to the output contacts, to the protective layer and to the electrical contacts and carrying electrical signals useful for providing a tampering alarm indication when the electricalType: GrantFiled: October 4, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: VERIFONE, INC.Inventors: Igal Yosef Yanko, John Henry Barrowman, Scott William McKibben