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US 2014/0006218 A1Published application
Systems and Methods for a Merchant to Accept Telephone Orders and Process Payments
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorArunachalam Muthu
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AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorArunachalam Muthu
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Systems and methods are disclosed to enable a merchant to sell products through a merchant-specific toll-free number operated by a payment service provider. The toll-free number may operate using an interactive voice response system to accept product orders and to process payments without requiring a consumer to enter information on the payment source. A consumer who has a registered account with the payment service provider may call the merchant toll-free number to purchase products using product codes that are keyed to the products. The payment service provider may identify the consumer and the consumer's registered account from the phone number used by the consumer in making the call. The payment for the purchase may be made from the consumer's account to the merchant's account. Information on the purchase and on the consumer including a shipping address is transmitted to the merchant to enable the merchant to fulfill the order.
An apparatus of a payment service provider comprising:
A method of selling products by a payment service provider for a merchant, comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable medium adapted to store a plurality of machine readable instructions which when executed by one or more processors of a device are adapted to cause the device to perform a method, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.