Integration of platforms for multi-platform content access
AssigneeBlock, Inc.
InventorsAlvin Leung, Michael Druker, Christopher Hua
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Abstract
Techniques described herein are directed to integration of platforms for multi-platform content access. In an example, a user may request access to access-restricted content. A payment application on the user device that requested access may communicate with an associated payment service to automatically pay for the access without requiring additional user input, or may request the user to confirm that the payment is desired. This may be performed across content provider platforms and in a way that allows subsequent access to the content regardless of the platform used to request the content.
Claims1
A method, implemented via one or more computing devices of a payment service, comprising:
- storing, in a database associated with the payment service, a user preference to utilize funds associated with a stored balance of a user account for accessing access-restricted content having a particular characteristic without a user associated with the user account providing payment information at a time of a request to access the access-restricted content;
- receiving, from a content provider, an indication of a request to access a content item associated with the content provider, wherein the content item is access-restricted by the content provider, and wherein:
- the request to access the content item is received via an application executing in the foreground of a user device of the user;
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- a payment application, associated with the payment service, is executing in the background of the user device;
- in response to receiving the indication of the request to access the content item and based at least in part on a determination that the content item is associated with the particular characteristic, withdrawing at least a portion of the funds from the stored balance of the user account without requiring additional input from the user;
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- based at least in part on withdrawing at least the portion of the funds, enabling access to the content item via the content provider.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.