Mastercard Eyes Cryptocurrency Refunds in New Patent Application

A new patent application from Mastercard recommends that the worldwide charge card company is checking out methods to develop refund services for cryptocurrency users.

Theapplication, entitled “Information Transaction Infrastructure”, was published by the the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on August 3, having actually been sent in lateJanuary Vladimir Goloshchuk, who inning accordance with LinkedIn formerly worked as a senior expert at Mastercard, is noted as the sole developer.

Theapplication information a facilities through which users might confirm their identities, which would then be connected to cryptocurrency addresses they choose to reveal.

Thetext of the application indicate this being most appropriate for circumstances in which users are sending payments to merchants from accounts on exchanges, or other services, in which their funds might be held along with those coming from others.

Inthe occasion that a merchant needs to send out the cash back for a refund, they would send out it back to an address connected to that user’s account– a scenario in which the exchange or custody holder may then have to understand where those funds are being sourced from and why.

Tocounter this, Mastercard proposes a method for users, through a shared service, to have 2 sort of wallets.

“The basic principle of the arrangement … is that a user of the shared wallet service has two types of wallet. Firstly, they have a ‘public’ wallet for on-the-chain publicly visible and verified transactions. The user will make and receive cryptocurrency payments external to the shared wallet service using a public wallet,”the application describes, including:

“Using this approach, the refund problem can be addressed – a payment received from the public wallet can be refunded by an equal payment back to the public wallet.”

Theapplication is the most recent from Mastercard, which has filed several patents in the previous couple of years. The business has actually likewise established tasks concentrated on blockchain tech, releasing a set of devoted APIs last fall.

Disclosure: Mastercard is a financier in Digital Currency Group, CoinDesk’s moms and dad business.

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