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US 10,949,920 B2Granted
Method and system for offering a credit product by a credit issuer to a consumer at a point-of-sale
AssigneePaypal, Inc.
InventorThomas H. Keithley
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Abstract
A method for offering at least one credit product by at least one credit issuer to a consumer at a point-of-sale between a merchant and the consumer. The method includes the steps of: providing a credit issuer data set including a plurality of data fields to a central database; initiating a transaction between the consumer and the merchant at the point-of-sale; offering, to the consumer at the point-of-sale, the at least one credit product; and presenting, to the consumer at the point-of-sale, at least one data field in the credit issuer data set. The at least one data field presented to the consumer is populated with data directed to the credit product, the credit issuer, or any combination thereof. An apparatus and system are also disclosed.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a non-transitory memory;
- and
- one or more hardware processors coupled with the non-transitory memory and configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations comprising:
- obtaining, via a network from an online merchant site presented on a user device, user data associated with a user of the user device and associated with an online payment transaction;
- identifying a third-party credit product from a plurality of third-party credit products contained in a central database, wherein the central database is maintained separate from the online merchant site;
- transmitting an electronic signal to the online merchant site to cause a graphical user interface of the online merchant site to display a content associated with the third-party credit product on the online merchant site for use in the online payment transaction without redirecting the user device away from the online merchant site, wherein the content is retrieved from the central database;
- in response to receiving a selection, via the graphical user interface of the online merchant site, of the third-party credit product for use in the online payment transaction, transmitting an electronic request for approval of the third-party credit product for the user to a service provider, wherein the electronic request comprises the user data;
- and
- in response to receiving an indication from the service provider that the electronic request has been approved, processing the online payment transaction for the user based at least in part on the third-party credit product.
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A method, comprising:
- detecting an initiation of an online payment transaction from a user device associated with a user;
- in response to the detecting
- identifying a third-party credit product from a plurality of credit products contained in a central database, and
- transmitting an electronic signal to an online merchant site to cause a graphical user interface of the online merchant site to display information associated with the third-party credit product on the online merchant site for use in the online payment transaction, wherein the information is retrieved from a central databased maintained separate from the online merchant site, wherein the information comprises presentation data and a plurality of data input fields;
- pre-populating, by one or more hardware processors, at least a portion of the plurality of data input fields with user data collected based on at least one interaction of the user with the online merchant site;
- transmitting, by the one or more hardware processors to the third-party, an electronic request for approval of the third-party credit product based at least in part on the user data;
- and
- in response to receiving an indication from the third-party that the electronic request has been approved, processing the online payment transaction for the user based at least in part on the third-party credit product without redirecting the user device away from the online merchant site.
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A non-transitory machine-readable medium stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:
- obtaining, via an online merchant site presented on a user device, user data associated with a user of the user device and associated with an online payment transaction;
- identifying a third-party credit product from a plurality of third-party credit product contained in a central database;
- transmitting an electronic signal to the online merchant site to cause a graphical user interface of the online merchant site to display information associated with a third-party credit product on the online merchant site for use in the online payment transaction without redirecting the user device away from the online merchant site, wherein the information is retrieved from the central database maintained separate from the online merchant site;
- receiving a selection, via the graphical user interface of the online merchant site, of the third-party credit product for use in the online payment transaction;
- in response to the receiving, transmitting an electronic request for approval of for the third-party credit product for the user to a service provider, wherein the application comprises the user data;
- receiving an indication from the service provider that the electronic request has been approved;
- and
- based on the indication, processing the online payment transaction for the user based at least in part on the third-party credit product.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.