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G06Q 20/00

Payment architectures, schemes or protocols (apparatus for performing or posting payment transactions G07F7/08, G07F19/00; electronic cash registers G07G1/12)

Introduced: January 2006

Title

Titles differ between systems:

IPC: Payment architectures, schemes or protocols

CPC: Payment architectures, schemes or protocols (apparatus for performing or posting payment transactions G07F7/08, G07F19/00; electronic cash registers G07G1/12)

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

Payment architectures, schemes or protocols

CPC:

Payment architectures, schemes or protocols (apparatus for performing or posting payment transactions G07F7/08, G07F19/00; electronic cash registers G07G1/12)

Additional Content IPC

Glossary

Payment protocol payment protocols A procedure that allows executing a payment between a merchant, a bank, a user and sometimes a third party; the procedure usually including authorisation and authentication of all parties involved. Electronic wallet electronic wallets A software application managing all kind of personal information, e.g. data for completing online forms. This expression is often used to indicate an electronic purse (see below). Electronic purse A software application managing electronic currency.

Limiting references

Billing, shopping or e-commerce per se Electronic finance, e.g. home-banking, online-banking, electronic funds transfer (EFT) systems per se Automatic teller machines (ATMs) Network security protocols

Application references

Billing or payment related to telephone services Billing or payment related to wireless services

IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 6 subcodes exist in both systems.

1 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.

IPC defines codes here since 2012.

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Top Applicants

Top Applicants (IPC)

Class G06,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 66,669
  2. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,313
  3. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 41,918
  4. GOOGLE US 32,969
  5. SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 30,822
  6. INTEL CORPORATION US 30,010
  7. TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 28,235
  8. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 26,079
  9. APPLE US 21,891
  10. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,505

Top Applicants (CPC)

Class G06,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 76,952
  2. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,841
  3. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 44,778
  4. GOOGLE US 35,735
  5. INTEL CORPORATION US 32,087
  6. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 30,572
  7. TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 25,023
  8. APPLE US 23,482
  9. SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 22,548
  10. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,917