Abstract
This patent application has not been assigned to a company or institution.The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion suppliedby the inventors: “Users may use payment cards to conduct various types of transactions, and may usethe payment cards during travel. When a user experiences a flight interruption, the user may potentiallyconduct additional t ransactions via the user’s payment card(s) during the flight interruption, such as toreserve a hotel room, to reserve another flight, to purchase a meal at the airport, and/or the like. Ifconfigurations of the payment card(s) do not allow one or more of the transactions to be conducted, itmay contribute to causing i nconvenience and/or frustration to the user during the flight interruption.”
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