Aggregate Constraints for Payment Transactions
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsRaghu Lakkapragada, Jeyandran Venugopal, Jeffrey Gordon Lawson
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Abstract
This document describes tools capable of authorizing or enabling authorization of multiple payment transactions without requiring that a buyer or seller authorize each transaction separately. The tools may do so by enabling a buyer or seller to select aggregate constraints, such as a total price or number of transactions. Based on these selected constraints, the tools may authorize every payment transaction that meets the aggregate constraints without requiring the buyer to authorize every transaction separately.
Claims20
A method implemented at least in part by a computing device comprising:
- enabling a user to select an aggregate price or aggregate quantity of transactions for a set of multiple payment transactions;
- receiving, from the user and responsive to the act of enabling, a selected aggregate price or aggregate quantity;
- and
- providing a unique identifier associated with the selected aggregate price or aggregate quantity effective to:
- enable a payment transaction requested by or associated with the user to be associated with the selected aggregate price or aggregate quantity;
- and enable a determination of whether the requested payment transaction satisfies the selected aggregate price or aggregate quantity when aggregated with a previously authorized or executed payment transaction of the set of multiple payment transactions.
A method implemented at least in part by a computing device comprising:
- enabling a user to select a set of one or more aggregate constraints for aggregate multiple payment transactions;
- and
- receiving, from the user and responsive to the act of enabling, a selected set of one or more aggregate constraints constraining the aggregate multiple payment transactions, the selected set of aggregate constraints effective to enable a determination of whether or not a requested payment transaction meets the selected set of aggregate constraints when the requested payment transaction is aggregated with previously requested payment transactions that met the selected set of aggregate constraints.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.