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US 10,096,051 B2Granted
Method and system to facilitate transactions
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorsMarc Peter Hosein, Selina Lam, Han-Shen Yuan
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Abstract
Method and system are provided to facilitate transactions in a particular on-line trading platform from a third party web site. The system may be configured to associate identification information, such as a uniform resource locator (URL), with a reference to an item of merchandise on a web page provided by a third party entity. In response to a request originated from a client device of a user, the method may cause presentation of a listing of the item of merchandise maintained in the particular on-line trading platform and a visual control to facilitate commencing of a transaction process with respect to the item of merchandise in the on-line trading platform.
Claims14
A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed by the one or processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- from a trading platform server hosting an on-line trading platform, providing a contextual transaction module to a context setter web site server hosting a context setter web site, the contextual transaction module configured to detect an indication of a user interest with respect to an item presented at the context setter web site, to determine that the presentation of the item at the context setter web site is associated with identification information linking the presentation of the item to a listing in the on-line trading-platform, and in response to the determining display a contextual commerce visual control selectable to obtain a transaction flow (UI) from the on-line trading platform;
- receiving, at the trading platform server, from the context setter web site server, an item identification and a request to facilitate a transaction with respect to an item represented by the item identification;
- in response to the received request, accessing the listing using the item identification;
- causing presentation of the transaction flow UI within a layout controlled by the context setter web site, the transaction flow UI comprising information from the listing and a visual control selectable to initiate a transaction in the on-line trading platform with respect to the item.
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A computer-implemented method comprising:
- from a trading platform server hosting an on-line trading platform, providing a contextual transaction module to a context setter web site server hosting a context setter web site, the contextual transaction module configured to detect an indication of a user interest with respect to an item presented at the context setter web site, to determine that the presentation of the item at the context setter web site is associated with identification information linking the presentation of the item to a listing in the on-line trading platform, and in response to the determining display a contextual commerce visual control selectable to obtain a transaction flow (UI) from the on-line trading platform;
- receiving, at the trading platform server, from the context setter web site server, an item identification and a request to facilitate a transaction with respect to an item represented by the item identification;
- in response to the received request, accessing the listing using the item identification;
- causing presentation of the transaction flow UI within a layout controlled by the context setter web site, the transaction flow UI comprising information from the listing and a visual control selectable to initiate a transaction in the on-line trading platform with respect to the item.
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A machine-readable non-transitory storage medium having instruction data executable by a machine to cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- from a trading platform server hosting an on-line trading platform, providing a contextual transaction module to a context setter web site server hosting a context setter web site, the contextual transaction module configured to detect an indication of a user interest with respect to an item presented at the context setter web site, to determine that the presentation of the item at the context setter web site is associated with identification information linking the presentation of the item to a listing in the on-line trading platform, and in response to the determining display a contextual commerce visual control selectable to obtain a transaction flow (III) from the on-line trading platform;
- receiving, at the trading platform server, from the context setter web site server, an item identification and a request to facilitate a transaction with respect to an item represented by the item identification;
- in response to the received request, accessing a listing that corresponds to the item identification;
- causing presentation of the transaction flow UI within a layout controlled by the context setter web site, the transaction flow UI comprising information from the listing and a visual control selectable to initiate a transaction in the on-line trading platform with respect to the item.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.