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Samsung patents phone feature for paying with cards while flying between countries

Samsung has filed a patent for a smartphone feature that helps users make card payments while traveling on international flights. The system checks the user's travel details and location to confirm they are on a plane crossing borders, then requests a secure digital token from the bank to allow payments during the trip.

Why it mattersThis could make it easier for travelers to buy food or goods on international flights without worrying about their physical card or local currency limits.

In the filing’s own words

A portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display, a wireless communication circuit, memory, including one or more storage media, storing instructions, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the touch-sensitive display, the wireless communication circuit and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors individually or collectively, cause the portable electronic device to obtain travel information of a user of the portable electronic device, based on the travel information, transmit, a first message including identification information of a card company that issued a card registered in the portable electronic device and information included in the travel information to a server through the wireless communication circuit, receive a second message in relation to the first message, through the wireless communication circuit, based on at least one of the travel information and information on a location of the portable electronic device identified through the wireless communication circuit, determine whether the user is on board a transport apparatus moving between countries, and based on the second message, obtain a token to be used for card payment while the user is on board the transport apparatus.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A portable electronic device comprising: a touch-sensitive display; a wireless communication circuit; memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions; and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the touch-sensitive display, the wireless communication circuit and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors individually or collectively, cause the portable electronic device to: obtain travel information of a user of the portable electronic device, based on the travel information, transmit a first message including identification information of a card company that issued a card registered in the portable electronic device and information included in the travel information to a server through the wireless communication circuit, receive a second message in relation to the first message through the wireless communication circuit, based on at least one of the travel information or information on a location of the portable electronic device identified through the wireless communication circuit, determine whether the user is on board a transport apparatus moving between countries, and based on the second message, obtain a token to be used for card payment while the user is on board the transport apparatus.

Facts

Company
Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title
PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING TRANSACTION MADE IN NON-TERRESTRIAL REGION
Publication number
US20260268305A1
Application number
19665544
Filed
May 1, 2026
Published
Sep 10, 2026
Inventors
7
Claims
20

Classified under

G06Q 20/34 Physics & computing
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