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Enforcing Caps On Documents Donated By Apps Via A Donation Api, Keun Soo Yim
Enforcing Caps On Documents Donated By Apps Via A Donation Api, Keun Soo Yim
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Knowledge of user-specific entities donated by various apps can enhance query answering performance of large language models (LLMs). However, system health issues can be caused if a donor app stores an excessive number of entities in the platform storage. This disclosure describes an app-content donation library with built-in mechanisms to prevent or reduce performance, reliability, and quality issues that can arise when third-party apps directly use a low-level donation API. When an app is uploaded to an application store (that makes apps available for installation on the platform), a verification procedure is performed to ensure that the uploaded app archive …
Adaptive Haptic Experience For Existing User Preferences
Adaptive Haptic Experience For Existing User Preferences
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A system for providing an adaptive haptic experience is disclosed. The system may associate a first device with a user. The system may also associate a second device with the user. The system may also determine a first haptic drive waveform associated with the first device. The system may also select, from a plurality of second haptic drive waveforms based on the first haptic drive waveform, a second haptic drive waveform.
Suggesting Actions Based On User Intent Detection Using A Large Language Model, Anant Chowdhary, Ben Johns
Suggesting Actions Based On User Intent Detection Using A Large Language Model, Anant Chowdhary, Ben Johns
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The content displayed on a device screen is often indicative of a user task and, with user permission, can be analyzed to surface suggestions that can enable users to perform such tasks quickly. However, rules-based systems that rely on pre-stored knowledge about text and other content may fail to correctly recognize and surface the appropriate task and need to be modified for different user contexts. This disclosure describes the use of a large language model (LLM), e.g., an on-device model, to analyze on-screen content and its context to automatically determine user intent. The reasoning capabilities of the LLM enable reliable …
Visa Cloud Connect, Brendan Louis, Peter Pozar, Carl Coles, Padmanaba Pillai, Zaheer Babul, Sanjeev Louis Lopes, Roshan Patel, Jonathan Wood, Ogochukwu Ikenyei
Visa Cloud Connect, Brendan Louis, Peter Pozar, Carl Coles, Padmanaba Pillai, Zaheer Babul, Sanjeev Louis Lopes, Roshan Patel, Jonathan Wood, Ogochukwu Ikenyei
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The present disclosure relates to a technique for providing payment processing infrastructure connectivity to cloud-based clients. The technique recites maintaining a virtual datacenter by the client at virtual private cloud hosted by a public cloud provider and a payment processor’s cloud connect is provided by payment processor enabling cloud-based clients to access its network infrastructure. The technique involves transmitting data from client VPC to payment processor’sVPC which in turn further transmits it to payment processor’s point of presence (PoP). The EA servers located at the payment processor’s PoP are accessed by the client via secure private link, eliminating the need …
Automatically Configuring Mobile Device Alerting Mode Based On User Context, Yan Mayster, Bruce Bahnsen
Automatically Configuring Mobile Device Alerting Mode Based On User Context, Yan Mayster, Bruce Bahnsen
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Users need to perform manual operations to modify mobile device alerting settings in many contexts. This disclosure describes techniques that, with user permission, analyze the user’s context such as location, schedule, user’s current level of engagement with the device, etc. to automatically determine an applicable alerting mode for their mobile device. Additionally, data from digital maps regarding location type, location characteristics, etc. as well as real time information regarding events taking place at or near the user’s location can be used in making the determination. Adjusting the alerting mode can include automatically adjusting notification volume levels, timing, and content tailored …
Goldpinch Multi Dimensional Scrolling
Goldpinch Multi Dimensional Scrolling
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The present disclosure generally relates to accessing digital content and, more particularly, selecting digital content via a user interface in a social media platform.
Controlling Smartphone Webcam Mode Using Alternatives To Smartphone Touchscreen, Jayant Chowdhary, Avichal Rakesh, Dipen Patel
Controlling Smartphone Webcam Mode Using Alternatives To Smartphone Touchscreen, Jayant Chowdhary, Avichal Rakesh, Dipen Patel
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This disclosure describes user-friendly techniques to connect a smartphone that is utilized as a web camera (webcam) by pairing the smartphone with a host device. Button-press patterns of a power button or another physical button on the side of a smartphone is used to convey user intent to enable/disable a webcam mode for the smartphone that is connected to a host device. This enables users to turn the webcam mode on/off even when the screen is turned off or facing away from the user, as is the case when a rear camera of the smartphone is used in the webcam …
Semi-Federated Learning Of An Embedding Space Across Multiple Machine Clusters
Semi-Federated Learning Of An Embedding Space Across Multiple Machine Clusters
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Provided are systems and methods for privacy-preserving learning of a shared embedding space for data split across multiple separate clusters of computing machines. In one example, the multiple separate clusters of computing machines can correspond to multiple separate data silos.
Stateful Method For Access Point Discovery Of Wireless Local Area Network Controller, Rahul K Kachalia, Muhammad Imam, Simone Arena
Stateful Method For Access Point Discovery Of Wireless Local Area Network Controller, Rahul K Kachalia, Muhammad Imam, Simone Arena
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Access points (APs) for a wireless local area network (WLAN) can discover a wireless LAN controller (WLC) address (in order to establish a management session with the WLC) through a variety of mechanisms, such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) option 43 mechanisms, Domain Name System (DNS) server mechanisms, and Layer 2 (L2) broadcast discovery mechanisms. The DHCP discovery mechanism is the most commonly used mechanism for WLC discovery but is a laborious and manual task that may be prone to errors. Techniques proposed herein provide an easy to use, stateful, and reliable mechanism through which an AP can discover …
Liquid Metal Antennas For Wearable Devices
Liquid Metal Antennas For Wearable Devices
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The novelty in this invention, rather than being about the liquid metal materials themselves, is around the use of liquid metals as antennas in a stretchable substrate (e.g., the metal could be injected into a silicone band or used as a conductive core of a thread for a textile band). The use of liquid metals as antennas in wearables could be the best way to significantly increase antenna surface area without introducing problematic points of failure, as liquid metals are self-healing (e.g., to minor puncture damage) and highly adaptable. This concept could be used in any wearable strap and may …
Daily Activity Summarization Using Sequential Information From A Photo Library, D Shin
Daily Activity Summarization Using Sequential Information From A Photo Library, D Shin
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Photo storage and viewing applications enable users to query their photos and view matching results. However, such applications do not currently provide text summaries based on photos and cannot answer semantic queries. This disclosure describes the use of machine learning techniques to leverage a user’s photo library to answer semantic queries. With user permission, an image-text decoder is utilized to generate and store a text summary of individual photos in the user’s photo library. When a user query is received, matching text summaries are identified and used to prompt a large language model that generates an answer to the query. …
Detecting And Correcting Problems In Photos Using Generative Artificial Intelligence, Quinn Thuy Tran, Joseph Edwin Johnson Jr.
Detecting And Correcting Problems In Photos Using Generative Artificial Intelligence, Quinn Thuy Tran, Joseph Edwin Johnson Jr.
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User captured photos can suffer from a variety of issues such as blurriness, poor lighting, presence of unwanted objects or people, etc. In addition, subjects in the photos can be captured in undesired expressions or poses. This disclosure describes techniques for automatically detecting and fixing problematic aspects of photos by employing generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) techniques. With user permission, a photo can be automatically edited using a suitable generative AI model to fix problems specified in a user-provided prompt. Optionally, a multimodal foundational model can be utilized to detect problems and generate an image correction prompt, along with a …
Predictive Ai-Based Channel Sounding Mechanism, Robert Barton, Jerome Henry, Indermeet Gandhi, Federico Lovison, Doosan Jung, Qihong Shao
Predictive Ai-Based Channel Sounding Mechanism, Robert Barton, Jerome Henry, Indermeet Gandhi, Federico Lovison, Doosan Jung, Qihong Shao
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Techniques are presented herein that support examining the channel state information (CSI) matrix that arises from a channel sounding and using the results of that examination to train a machine learning (ML)-based model that considers all of the available wireless parameters at each given measurement. Under the presented techniques, after sufficient training has been completed a CSI matrix may be predicted over short intervals (using, for example, a long short-term memory (LSTM) network) thus allowing a Wi-Fi access point (AP) to reduce the sounding frequency and, as a result, improve overall wireless performance.
Feature-Specific Automatically Expiring Device Identifiers For Enhanced Privacy, Branden Archer, Mekhola Mukherjee, Pauline Anthonysamy
Feature-Specific Automatically Expiring Device Identifiers For Enhanced Privacy, Branden Archer, Mekhola Mukherjee, Pauline Anthonysamy
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An identifier that uniquely identifies a device can be abused to track device behavior over extended periods of time. This disclosure describes techniques to obtain data relating to devices in a manner that limits a service provider or device manufacturer to data that is essential for their purposes, resulting in privacy-conscious data acquisition. Multiple distinct identifiers are assigned to a device such that individual features or functions of the device are assigned a respective unique identifier. Combining insights of the device behavior across functions is prevented. The multiple distinct identifiers each have a limited lifetime and expire after a certain …
Privacy Preserving Device-Bound Information, Max Bires, Seth Moore
Privacy Preserving Device-Bound Information, Max Bires, Seth Moore
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A common abuse scenario is one in which a malicious user repeatedly performs actions that are intended by a developer, vendor, or service provider to be limited. For example, a user may repeatedly take undue advantage of one-time free trials, coupons, or account creation flows. This disclosure describes techniques to verifiably attach data to a particular device in a privacy-preserving manner such that the data can survive a factory reset or compromise of the device. Data is bound to the device in a privacy-preserving manner such that the data cannot be used as a mechanism for identifying a particular device. …
Automatically Invoking Digital Wallet Based On Spatiotemporal Context, D Shin
Automatically Invoking Digital Wallet Based On Spatiotemporal Context, D Shin
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When buying goods and services, users can pay by taking an explicit action to trigger a digital wallet application on their device, which adds friction to the user experience (UX). This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with user permission, to invoke a digital wallet application automatically when a user is about to make a payment. The digital wallet application is invoked just prior to payment based on the user’s spatiotemporal context determined based on data from device sensors. Sensor data are polled, time-aligned, and represented in a fixed array. Sensor patching is performed by creating a slided-box dataset with range normalization. …
A System To Provide Next-Gen Accessible Payment Cards And Method Thereof, Saikat Dutta, Amrendra Narayan Jha, Santosh Kumar Kvs, Nabadeep Haloi, Deepali Gupta
A System To Provide Next-Gen Accessible Payment Cards And Method Thereof, Saikat Dutta, Amrendra Narayan Jha, Santosh Kumar Kvs, Nabadeep Haloi, Deepali Gupta
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The present disclosure relates to providing a system and method for next generation payment cards which may be conveniently accessed by all, especially the visually impaired customers. It discloses a technique of providing engraved patterns on front side of the payment card to differentiate between the front and back side of the card along with providing a sensory reaction to the user to differentiate between different types of payment cards as specific engraved patterns may be linked to a particular category of payment cards. Further, the back side of the payment card encompasses the 6 unique alphabetic characters which may …
Techniques To Indicate Latency Of Packets In Network Nodes, Anshul Tanwar, Kumaril Kapoor, Praveen G. R
Techniques To Indicate Latency Of Packets In Network Nodes, Anshul Tanwar, Kumaril Kapoor, Praveen G. R
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Applications operating via network communications have long evolved from the use of basic data, as audio and video applications continue to evolve in terms of latency requirements and, as such, the number of differentiated flows (per application) continues to evolve as well. With applications evolving that are utilize low latency packet paths from network, it can be challenging to determine the latency of packets in a network that are associated with latency sensitive applications. This proposal provides techniques through which a new header can be embedded into packets in which the new header can be used to indicate the total-residence-time …
System And Method For Automating Payments Using Milestone Payment Program, Sandeep Tharoor, Hunny Huria
System And Method For Automating Payments Using Milestone Payment Program, Sandeep Tharoor, Hunny Huria
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The present disclosure discloses a method and system for delineating various significant milestones stages and automate the process of remunerating Merchants upon the successful completion of each milestone. Further, the present disclosure addresses prevalent challenges associated with upfront payments for extended-duration services, like house renovation payments or when subscribing to annual memberships for clubs or fitness centres. Customers lacks confidence as the service providers compromise quality for money being paid by the customers. Specifically, to address and overcome these challenges, the present disclosure proposes a method and system of attaching milestone to a card-based payment instruction which enhances trust and …
Testing For Antenna-Interface Effects During System-On-Chip (Soc) Integration, N/A
Testing For Antenna-Interface Effects During System-On-Chip (Soc) Integration, N/A
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A bottleneck in system-on-chip (SoC) development is the lengthy run times needed to identify process antenna errors between the partitions of the SoC. This disclosure describes techniques that leverage limited net extraction to rapidly identify and eliminate process antenna errors in SoCs. The hierarchies of a SoC are individually tested for process antenna effects by promoting below-top-level ports of the hierarchy and by subjecting just the promoted ports to extraction and process antenna testing. Process antenna effects at ports between partitions and within partitions are tested separately. Since the number of ports and the sizes of the partitions are relatively …
Personalized Content Recommendations Across Devices Using Discover Tab, Anushka Ghatia, Leo Baghdassarian, Rashmi Murthy, Padmaja Ragavendra, Timur Calmațui, Ashwin Srigiri, Ashish Agrawal, Kalyan Ganapathisubramanian
Personalized Content Recommendations Across Devices Using Discover Tab, Anushka Ghatia, Leo Baghdassarian, Rashmi Murthy, Padmaja Ragavendra, Timur Calmațui, Ashwin Srigiri, Ashish Agrawal, Kalyan Ganapathisubramanian
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A television device includes a media application that displays a user interface that enables a user to select and launch media content across a variety of streaming platforms. The user interface includes a discover tab that provides personalized recommendations across a plurality of streaming platforms. For example, a media platform may obtain signals relating to the user’s entitlements (e.g., which service/application that the user has access to) and/or provider affinities (e.g., which service/application tends to user), and generate, using the signals, recommendations that are personalized to the user, where the recommendations include programs from multiple different streaming services. The recommendations …
Using Remote Logging During Zero Touch Provisioning Of A Network Element Over Ipv6, Anonymous
Using Remote Logging During Zero Touch Provisioning Of A Network Element Over Ipv6, Anonymous
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The present disclosure relates to Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) of a network element over IPv6. ZTP is a method for a network element (NE) to fetch provisioning and configure itself when it boots up very first time. The NE automatically restarts the ZTP process when it encounters errors that cannot complete the provisioning. Therefore, it is important to have a mechanism to report errors back to the user. In IPv6, the ZTP adopts DHCPv6 protocol. However, the DHCPv6 protocol does not define a specific option for the user to specify a log server that errors can be reported back. The …
System And Method For Disambiguated Merchants Identification Using Distillation Of A Large Language Model, Aravilli Srinivasa Rao, Rajesh Kumar Kamatam, Chandra Kamatam, Bharat Kumar Darlapudi
System And Method For Disambiguated Merchants Identification Using Distillation Of A Large Language Model, Aravilli Srinivasa Rao, Rajesh Kumar Kamatam, Chandra Kamatam, Bharat Kumar Darlapudi
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The present disclosure relates to a system and method for disambiguated merchants identification using distillation of a Large Language Model (LLM). The present disclosure suggests the generation of synthetic merchants data using commercial LLMs and specific prompts. Thereafter, the method includes performing a fine-tuning on an open-source model using a specific instruction and resulting in a distilled merchant model. Subsequently, the method includes generating embeddings for all the merchant's data obtained from the merchant’s transaction data based on a specified instruction and/or dimensions and storing the generated embeddings in a vector database. Finally, the method includes executing the prompts along …
Secure And Efficient Method To Distribute Flows In Firewall Cluster Deployments, Niranjan M M
Secure And Efficient Method To Distribute Flows In Firewall Cluster Deployments, Niranjan M M
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Techniques are presented herein that incorporate firewall cluster deployments with authenticated distributed HyperLedger to securely store and retrieve the flows, avoiding secure connections, over Cluster Tunnel Link (CTL), required between the cluster nodes for sharing the flow. Presented method provide access to the HyperLedger based on the service registered by the cluster nodes. Aspects of the presented techniques can be extended for sharing the configuration in an efficient and secure way.
Secure Payment Authentication That Provides Strong Customer Authentication, Annamalai Muthalagappan, Bill Corsello, Christopher Lin, Cong Li, Derek Shu, Florin Modrea, Habib Sorathia, Hemen Chhatbar, Heng Liu, Jan Czapracki, Jingmin Xie, Karen Langsam Kapila, Karl Cai, Kenneth Tu, Layla Hadinger, Lei Duan, Lucas Petraglia, Lucian Driscu, Matt Mulkeen, Mark Lawley, Meng Deng, Monica Gautier, Raj Govindaraju, Rie Yamaoka, Rocky Meza, Sharon (Xiaoqin) Huang, Shuojing Wang, Stephen John Ratcliffe, Xiaoming Hu, Yinua Wu, Yitian Li, Yong Ni, Dinoop Dayanand, Utkarsh Gautam
Secure Payment Authentication That Provides Strong Customer Authentication, Annamalai Muthalagappan, Bill Corsello, Christopher Lin, Cong Li, Derek Shu, Florin Modrea, Habib Sorathia, Hemen Chhatbar, Heng Liu, Jan Czapracki, Jingmin Xie, Karen Langsam Kapila, Karl Cai, Kenneth Tu, Layla Hadinger, Lei Duan, Lucas Petraglia, Lucian Driscu, Matt Mulkeen, Mark Lawley, Meng Deng, Monica Gautier, Raj Govindaraju, Rie Yamaoka, Rocky Meza, Sharon (Xiaoqin) Huang, Shuojing Wang, Stephen John Ratcliffe, Xiaoming Hu, Yinua Wu, Yitian Li, Yong Ni, Dinoop Dayanand, Utkarsh Gautam
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Multi-factor verification steps currently used for authenticating online purchases, e.g., one-time codes sent to a phone, can prove to be a hurdle for some customers. This disclosure describes a strong customer authentication technique, referred to as secure payment authentication (SPA), that enables users to authenticate online transactions using device-bound tokens. Authentication is driven by payment service providers, and a simple device unlock can confirm a transaction. Strong customer authentication is made possible with just a single (or even zero) click. Cross-device authentication can be enabled, such that a customer can authenticate themselves on a payment app on a mobile device …
Cash At E-Commerce: Method For Disbursing Cash To A Cardholder Using An E-Commerce Platform, Lasha Davituliani, Nataliia Usenko, Stanislav Potemkin, Evgeny Kozlov
Cash At E-Commerce: Method For Disbursing Cash To A Cardholder Using An E-Commerce Platform, Lasha Davituliani, Nataliia Usenko, Stanislav Potemkin, Evgeny Kozlov
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The present disclosure relates to a method for disbursing cash to a cardholder using an e-commerce platform. The present disclosure discloses a method of provisioning a user to initiate a transaction by ordering a product or service using an eCommerce application or a website. The user can also request an additional cashback amount along with the ordered product/service during the transaction. After successful authentication of the request, the ordered product/service and the requested cashback amount (i.e., the cash) are delivered to the user.
Adaptive Notification Delivery For Home Camera Feeds, Steven Guan, Praveen Coppa, Ryan Zhang, Marci Meingast, Daniele Midi, Saajan Shridhar
Adaptive Notification Delivery For Home Camera Feeds, Steven Guan, Praveen Coppa, Ryan Zhang, Marci Meingast, Daniele Midi, Saajan Shridhar
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Home security cameras generate notifications related to motion detection, person detection, person recognition, etc. when an event and/or person is detected within the camera feed. Detecting motion, attributing it to the presence of a person, and identifying the person require progressively greater amounts of time, and can lead to separate notifications in quick succession. Such notifications interrupt and burden users and can cause them to miss or ignore relevant ones. This disclosure describes techniques that reduce notification volume by introducing user-configurable cascading delays in delivering notifications to provide time for person recognition. For persons who are recognized, users receive a …
Transformer Decoder With Tokenized Image Snapshot For Interactive Augmented Reality, D Shin
Transformer Decoder With Tokenized Image Snapshot For Interactive Augmented Reality, D Shin
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While augmented reality (AR) devices enable users to provide queries via different modalities such as touch, gesture, voice, camera, etc., providing multimodal queries currently requires a user to perform multiple manual steps. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with user permission, for automatic intelligent multimodal input capture by an AR device to understand user queries by automatically capturing input from additional modalities besides the one that the user uses to provide the query. The initial query (e.g., a spoken query) is decoded, e.g., with a transformer decoder, and if the query indicates an additional modality for input, the decoding is paused, …
Techniques To Facilitate Intelligent Mec Application Deployment For Private 5g Enterprise Networks, Robert Barton, Matthias Falkner, Indermeet Gandhi, Jerome Henry, Vinay Saini
Techniques To Facilitate Intelligent Mec Application Deployment For Private 5g Enterprise Networks, Robert Barton, Matthias Falkner, Indermeet Gandhi, Jerome Henry, Vinay Saini
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Private 5G networks are emerging that allow a cellular network to be deployed and operated as an extension of an enterprise network. The deployment of such a private 5G cellular network typically involves the integration of cellular network components with exiting elements of an enterprise network, such as using the existing network to implement fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul network connectivity. A key advantage of 5G cellular connectivity is the ability to offer edge compute resources to user equipment through the use of multi-access edge compute (MEC) deployments. However, in an enterprise network, edge compute resources may be scarce. In order …
System And Method For Redeeming Issuer Reward Currency For A Consumer Benefit Supplement, Michelle Dollin, Raja Veeramani
System And Method For Redeeming Issuer Reward Currency For A Consumer Benefit Supplement, Michelle Dollin, Raja Veeramani
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The present disclosure provides a method for redeeming issuer reward currency. Initially consumer books travel and logs into issuer application. The present disclosure calls Card Eligibility Service (CES) by sending cardholder travel information to check for eligible lounges. The CES pulls all lounges in airport and checks if cardholder is eligible for any of the lounges. The CES returns the cardholder list of lounges eligibility information and redemption limits and prices. The present disclosure offers to purchase additional guests for the lounge using points. The present disclosure calls CES and Pay with Points APIs to purchase additional guest access using …