Transaction object reader with shielding

    公开(公告)号:US12229748B1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-18

    申请号:US18410447

    申请日:2024-01-11

    Applicant: Block, Inc.

    Abstract: A card reader includes a digital connector such as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) plug or an Apple® Lightning® plug. The digital connector includes a corresponding connector interface, which provides voltage to at least a card reader interface and an integrated circuit (IC) of the card reader. The card reader interface outputs an analog transaction information signal upon reading the card. The IC generates a digital version of the analog transaction information signal, encrypts the digital version, converts that into an analog audio signal. The audio signal can then be sent to the connector interface, which converts it into a digital signal such as a USB or Apple® Lightning® signal that is sent by the digital connector to a mobile device. Alternately, the audio signal can be sent to a microcontroller that converts the audio signal to a digital format such as USB, and then to the digital connector.

    Method and apparatus for generating connection in wireless communication system

    公开(公告)号:US12225405B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-11

    申请号:US18522947

    申请日:2023-11-29

    Abstract: A method performed by a master base station supporting a dual connectivity with a secondary base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting, to the secondary base station, address information associated with data forwarding, receiving, from the secondary base station, a first message associated with a data usage of the secondary base station, the first message including information on a data volume for a radio access technology (RAT) of the secondary base station, and transmitting, to a first network entity performing a mobility management, a second message including the information on the data volume for the RAT of the secondary base station, based on a trigger by a handover of a terminal from the master base station that is a source base station to a target master base station, wherein the data volume for the RAT of the secondary base station reported to the first network entity excludes data that is forwarded from the secondary base station to the target master base station based on the address information during the handover.

    Methods, wireless communication device, IMS and OCS for sending information to communication network subscribers

    公开(公告)号:US12207164B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-21

    申请号:US17913000

    申请日:2020-03-31

    Abstract: Disclosed is a method performed by an IP Multimedia System, IMS (140), of a communication network. The method comprises receiving information of a call initiation or a call reception by a wireless communication device (110), the information comprising an ID indicative of a subscriber of the wireless communication device (110). The method further comprises sending information of the initiated or received call to an online charging system, OCS (150), the information comprising the ID indicative of the subscriber of the wireless communication device (110), receiving, from the OCS (150) and in response to the sending, a pointer referring to a notification picture, and sending the pointer to the wireless communication device (110). Hereby it is possible for an operator to send notification pictures to its subscribers. Disclosed are also methods performed by the OCS (150) and the wireless communication device (110).

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