US 10,242,398 B2Granted

Integrating third party shopping cart applications with an online payment service

AssigneePaypal, Inc.

InventorsKatherine Woo, Deborah Yee-Ky Liu

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Abstract

A method may include receiving at an online payment service hosted on a first system, detailed information from an auction management (AM) system, the AM system hosted on a second system remote from the first system. The information may concern an item purchased by a user from a network-based commerce facility and placed in a virtual shopping cart on the AM system. The detailed information may be sent by the AM system in response to receiving an intent to proceed with payment for the item. A user interface may be communicated to the user that facilitates processing of the payment for the item. The processing may include marking the payment as being an AM payment. The interface may allow the user to view the detailed information and the detailed information describing contents of the virtual shopping cart on the AM system.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A multi-merchant virtual shopping cart content display system, comprising:

a non-transitory memory storing data that associates a user account with virtual shopping cart content for each of a plurality of virtual shopping carts that were each created with a different merchant;
and
one or more hardware processors that are coupled to the non-transitory memory and that are configured to execute instructions to cause the system to perform operations comprising:
identifying the plurality of virtual shopping carts associated with the user account via the data stored in the non-transitory memory;
generating and providing a graphical user interface for display on a display device, wherein the graphical user interface includes a virtual shopping cart identifier for each of the plurality of virtual shopping carts and a respective virtual shopping cart content link for each of the virtual shopping cart identifiers;
receiving a selection of a first virtual shopping cart content link on the graphical user interface and, in response, retrieving first virtual shopping cart contents from the non-transitory memory for a first virtual shopping cart that was created with a first merchant, and providing the first virtual shopping cart content for display on the display device;
and
receiving a selection of a second virtual shopping cart content link on the graphical user interface and, in response, retrieving second virtual shopping cart content from the non-transitory memory for a second virtual shopping cart that was created with a second merchant that is different than the first merchant, and providing the second virtual shopping cart content for display on the display device.

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A method for displaying virtual shopping cart contents of virtual shopping carts created with a plurality of different merchants, comprising:

identifying, by a payment service device via data stored in a database, a plurality of virtual shopping carts that were each created with a different merchant using a user account;
generating, by the payment service device on a display device, a graphical user interface for display that includes a virtual shopping cart identifier for each of the plurality of virtual shopping carts and a respective virtual shopping cart content link for each of the virtual shopping cart identifiers;
receiving, by the payment service device, a selection of a first virtual shopping cart content link on the graphical user interface and, in response, retrieving first virtual shopping cart content from the database for a first virtual shopping cart that was created with a first merchant, and providing the first virtual shopping cart content for display on the display device;
and
receiving, by the payment service device, a selection of a second virtual shopping cart content link on the graphical user interface and, in response, retrieving second virtual shopping cart content from the database for a second virtual shopping cart that was created with a second merchant that is different than the first merchant, and providing the second virtual shopping cart content for display on the display device.

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A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:

identifying, via data stored in a storage system, a plurality of virtual shopping carts that were each created with a different merchant using a user account, and that are each associated with virtual shopping cart content in the storage system;
generating, for display on a display device, a graphical user interface that includes a virtual shopping cart identifier for each of the plurality of virtual shopping carts and a respective virtual shopping cart content link for each of the virtual shopping cart identifiers;
receiving, from an input device, a selection of a first virtual shopping cart content link on the graphical user interface and, in response, retrieving first virtual shopping cart content from the storage system for a first virtual shopping cart that was created with a first merchant, and providing the first virtual shopping cart content for display on the display device;
and
receiving, from the input device, a selection of a second virtual shopping cart content link on the graphical user interface and, in response, retrieving second virtual shopping cart content from the storage system for a second virtual shopping cart that was created with a second merchant that is different than the first merchant, and providing the second virtual shopping cart content for display on the display device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/981,505Filed 28 Dec 2015 · continuation
Priority: 14 Nov 2003
Published: US 2016/0110798 A121 Apr 2016
Granted: 26 Mar 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06Q 30/0633
Electronic shopping [e-shopping]: managing shopping lists, e.g. compiling or processing purchase lists
G06Q 20/12
Payment architectures: specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
G06Q 30/06
Commerce: buying, selling or leasing transactions
G06Q 30/0613
Electronic shopping [e-shopping]: using intermediate agents

Family

Application60/520,173Us provisional application · filed 14 Nov 2003
Application10/791,156Parent of this continuation · filed 1 Mar 2004
Application13/470,032Parent of this continuation · filed 11 May 2012
US 2016/0110798 A1Pre-grant publication · published 21 Apr 2016
US 2005/0108104 A1Published application
US 2012/0221427 A1Published application
US 10,242,398 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.