1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media collectively storing instructions that, when executed, cause one or more computers to collectively perform a method of conducting transactions at a venue independent of a point of sale system, the instructions comprising:
a first set of instructions for generating a website, the website corresponding to a particular merchant venue and responsive to a first mobile computing device; and
a second set of instructions comprising a mobile application program executable on a second mobile computing device;
wherein the website is operable to:
check in a user to the particular merchant venue responsive to check in information transmitted from the first mobile computing device,
transmit an indicator to the application program that the user has checked in at the particular merchant venue,
receive an amount of a currency owed by the user from the application program, transmit the amount to the first mobile computing device,
receive a payment instruction from the first mobile computing device for paying at least the amount, and
initiate a financial transaction between the user and the merchant paying the at least the amount from the user to the merchant; and
wherein the mobile application program is operable to:
responsive to the indicator, display an indication that the user has checked in,
receive the amount of a currency owed by the user as input from the second mobile computing device,
transmit the amount of a currency owed by the user to the website, and
upon completion of the financial transaction, receive an indicator that the user has paid at least the amount of a currency owed.
2. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the website is further operable to receive at least one payment card number, and to transmit the at least one payment card number in association with the financial transaction.
3. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 2, wherein the website is further operable to receive multiple payment card numbers, and to transmit the multiple payment card numbers for persistent storage.
4. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 3, wherein the website is further operable to allow the first mobile computing device to select from among the multiple payment card numbers so as to receive an indication of a selected card number from among the multiple payment card numbers, and to initiate the financial transaction using the selected card number.
5. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the amount of a currency is a first amount, and the payment instruction comprises an instruction for paying a second amount of the currency, the second amount being greater than the first amount.
6. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the instructions further comprise a third set of instructions for generating a content manager in electronic communication with the mobile application program, the content manager operable to receive the indicator that the user has checked in, to transmit the indicator to the mobile application program, to receive the amount of currency owed from the mobile application program, to transmit the amount of currency owed to the website, and to transmit the indicator that the user has paid to the mobile application program.
7. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the instructions further comprise a third set of instructions for generating a content manager, the content manager operable to receive information corresponding to the particular merchant venue, and to initiate generation of the website using the received information corresponding to the particular merchant venue.
8. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 7, wherein the information corresponding to the particular merchant venue comprises at least one of a merchant logo, graphics, color scheme, and merchant text content.
9. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 7, wherein the content manager is further operable to perform at least one of:
initiating an application for a secondary merchant identification for conducting the financial transaction, and
initiating a request for gateway credentials corresponding to the merchant venue.
10. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein neither the website nor the mobile application program is operable to communicate electronically with the point of sale system.
11. A method of conducting transactions at a merchant venue, the method comprising:
receiving, at a website and from a first mobile computing device located at a merchant venue, a check-in request to check in at the merchant venue;
in response to the receiving, transmitting, to a second computing device located at the merchant venue, an indicator that the user has checked in;
receiving, from the second computing device, an amount of currency owed;
transmitting to the website the amount of currency owed;
receiving, through the website and from the first mobile computing device, an instruction to carry out a financial transaction using a specified payment card number so as to pay at least the amount of currency owed;
initiating the financial transaction with the specified payment card number;
receiving a notice of completion of the financial transaction; and
transmitting, to the first mobile computing device and to the second computing device, an indicator that the financial transaction was completed.
12. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving, through the website, the payment card number.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the receiving, through the website, the payment card number further comprises receiving multiple payment card numbers.
14. The method of claim 13, further comprising receiving, through the website, a selection from among the multiple payment card numbers, so as to designate the specified payment card number.
15. The method of claim 11, wherein the instruction to carry out a financial transaction is an instruction to pay an amount of currency greater than the amount of currency owed.
16. The method of claim 11:
wherein the transmitting, to a second computing device located at the merchant venue further comprises transmitting, to a content manager program in electronic communication with the second computing device, the indicator that the user has checked in; and
wherein the receiving, from the second computing device, an amount of currency owed further comprises receiving, at the content manager program, the amount of currency owed.
17. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving information corresponding to the merchant venue, and initiating generation of the website using the received information corresponding to the merchant venue.
18. The method of claim 17, wherein the information corresponding to the particular merchant venue comprises at least one of a merchant logo, graphics, color scheme, and merchant text content.
19. The method of claim 11, further comprising:
initiating an application for a secondary merchant identification for conducting the financial transaction, and
initiating a request for gateway credentials corresponding to the merchant venue.
20. The method of claim 11, wherein neither the first mobile computing device nor the second computing device is a part of a point of sale system.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. Method for determining a spatial quality index of regionalised data and intended for determining a priori anomalistic data and accordingly assess the quality of the measurements or of the digital processing which have generated said data, comprising the following operational phases:
a first phase for identifying the first order statistical anomalies from a set of raw regionalised data, this identification including a rendering said data stationary by a preliminary extraction of the spatial drifts of said data and the determination of the associated first order stationary residue so that the value of the average of the residual data is reasonably constant in space, the anomalies being identified and examined on the first order residue so as to provide a first order anomaly criterion,
a second phase for identifying the second order statistical anomalies with extraction of the components of first order residue regarded as anomalistic and components of first order residue regarded as coherent in space,
setting up a quantified relation between any combination of the estimated values of the anomalistic components of the first andor second order and any combination of the estimated values of the coherent components of the first andor second order.
2. Method according to claim 1, wherein the setting up of the quantified relation is embodied for each regionalised data element taken individually.
3. Method according to claim 1, wherein said quantified relation is a ratio.
4. Method according to claim 1, wherein said quantified relation is the ratio between the estimated value of the second order anomalistic component and the estimated value of the coherent component is the sum of the first and second order coherent components.
5. Method according to claim 1, wherein said it includes the localisation of the spatial anomalies on the basis of the values of the SQI of each regionalised data element.
6. Method according to claim 1, wherein said identification phases are carried out by geostatistical estimation in a non-stationary model for the first phase and in a stationary model for the second phase.
7. Method according to claim 1, wherein obtaining first order stationary residue, on which it is possible to calculate and modelise a variogram, is carried out via a non-stationary estimation of the spatial drift.
8. Method according to claim 7, wherein the interpretation of said variogram in terms of anomalistic and coherent components results in the estimation by a stationary model of the second order anomalistic component.
9. Method according to claim 1, wherein said identification phases use:
the definition of the krigeage surrounding area adapted to the estimation of each of said anomalistic and coherent components,
the estimation by factorial krigeage of the anomalistic and coherent components of the residue.
10. Method according to claim 1, wherein, in each of said stages, a 3D visual control of the analysis is carried out by firstly an interpolation on a grid file of any irregularly sampled variable originating from a point file, and secondly by means of a colour code associated with the value of the interpolated variable.
11. Method according to claim 1, wherein the extraction of a drift ensuring the stationary state of the residue stationary is effected via least error squares polynomial adjustment.