Citigroup (C) USPTO patents

A system, method and apparatus for exchanging value using a smart card in a financial transaction is disclosed.

A financial institution can provide a best price guarantee to debit or credit card account holders.

Computer file copy systems and methods in which a list of files to be transferred from storage on a source file storage computer is sorted by one or more processors of a copy computer in ascending order from a smallest file size to a largest file size.

Systems and methods involve an input layer function of a function-as-a-service (FaaS) pipeline that receives trigger data from a trigger layer function of one or more processors of enterprise processing systems, calls one or more processors of an enrich layer function of the FaaS pipeline that adds enriching context to the trigger data, and creates an event based at least in part on the enriched trigger data.

A payment device has identifiers, read in a magnetic strip or visual indicia by a healthcare provider, for an influenza vaccine and an account issued by an issuer to a party (e.g.; a governmental entity) upon which a transaction can be conducted that is limited to administering the influenza vaccine.