Can't wait to be in line behind the person fumbling to get our their iPad to pay for a pack of gum. Phone and watch should be smooth though.
1. A method of operating a portable electronic device, comprising: using the electronic device to conduct a mobile payment transaction at a merchant terminal; and in response to detecting that the mobile payment transaction has failed, updating at least one operating setting on the electronic device prior to performing a subsequent payment attempt at the merchant terminal.
What for? I continue to assert that articles that claim that patents reveal things about products are unfounded.
I have a number of patents myself: companies file them all the time with little to no concern for whether they'll use them in a product. Thus, the existence of a patent is little to no evidence regarding products.
I think making it an absolute - ie, there is never anything to learn along these lines - is going too far, but there are certainly a lot of patents that never see further development.
That still doesn't seem novel, but that is a different topic to argue than payment over NFC...
