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US 2006/0155643 A1Published application
Payment instrument notification
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsAndrew Shuman, Ashwin Sarin, Jeffrey Carnahan
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Abstract
Payment instrument notification is described. In an implementation, a method is described in which a user is notified of impending expiration of a payment instrument that is utilized to interact with a service. The notification is performed such that the user is permitted to interact with the service during a period of time between the notification and the expiration.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- notifying a user of an impending expiration of a payment instrument that is utilized to interact with a service;
- and
- permitting the user to interact with the service during a period of time between the notifying and the expiration.
A method comprising:
- determining a relative urgency, at which, a user is to be notified of a billing event that may affect the user's interaction with a service;
- and
- selecting one of a plurality of notifications, based on the determining, for notifying the user of the billing event.
One or more computer readable media comprising computer executable instructions that, when executed, direct a computer to:
- output a notification for notifying a user of a billing event that may affect the user's interaction with a service;
- and
- receive an input which specifies an amount of time, during which, the user is not to receive an additional notification regarding the billing event.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.