Method, apparatus and system for procrssing payment request for virtual commodities on open network platform

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11288653-B2
Application number	US-202017031660-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 24, 2020
Priority date	Jan 31, 2013
Publication date	Mar 29, 2022
Grant date	Mar 29, 2022

Abstract

A method, apparatus and system for processing a payment request for a virtual commodity on an open network platform are provided. The method includes: receiving a payment request that is sent by a third-party application server according to a request from a terminal, the payment request carrying at least an account identifier; deducting a charge from an account corresponding to the account identifier according to a payment attribute corresponding to the account identifier; and sending a charge deduction result corresponding to the account to the terminal via the third-party application server. According to the present method, usage rate of network and system resources is improved.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for processing a payment request for a virtual commodity on an open network platform, comprising:
executing, by a user terminal, a third-party application on a graphical user interface;
receiving, by the user terminal, a payment request of the virtual commodity based on a user input on the graphical user interface;
sending, by the user terminal, the payment request to the open network platform via a third-party application server corresponding to the third-party application, the payment request carrying a transaction identifier and an account identifier such that the open network platform determines whether the account identifier has a Do Not Disturb (DND) payment attribute by querying an account list based on the account identifier;
in response to determining that the account identifier has the DND payment attribute,
receiving, from the open network platform via the third-party application server, a charge deduction result corresponding to a user account of the account identifier without receiving a payment page to be displayed that requests a user payment confirmation, the charge deduction result being obtained by directly deducting a charge from the user account corresponding to the account identifier on the open network platform;
invoking, by the user terminal, an application programming interface (API) associated with the charge deduction result to render a first window of the charge deduction result; and
displaying, by the user terminal, the first window in a floating layer on the graphical user interface associated with the third-party application such that user operations on the third-party application is not affected during a process of displaying the first window;

receiving, from the third-party application server, delivery of the virtual commodity to the user account corresponding to the account identifier, comprising:
receiving a uniform resource locator (URL) of a transaction complete notification page from the third-party application server after the third-party application server sends a delivery success notification carrying the transaction identifier to the open network platform and receives a transaction complete notification from the open network platform, the transaction complete notification carrying a result code indicative of a successful DND payment the URL of the transaction complete notification page;
invoking a first API corresponding to the result code indicative of the successful DND payment to access the URL of the transaction complete notification page; and
after the user terminal has accessed the URL of the transaction complete notification page, receiving data on the transaction complete notification page.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
sending a DND payment attribute setting request to the open network platform via the third-party application server, the DND payment attribute setting request carrying the account identifier and corresponding operation information received by the user terminal based on a user setting operation; wherein:
if the operation information indicates enabling a DND payment, the account identifier is recorded by the open network platform as the account identifier of the user account having the DND payment attribute; and
if the operation information indicates canceling a DND payment, the account identifier is deleted by the open network platform from the account list of the recorded account identifiers having the DND payment attribute.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein invoking the API associated with the charge deduction result comprises:
predefining a plurality of result codes indicating a plurality of payment request processing results with the third-party application server;
preconfiguring mapping relationships between the plurality of result codes and APIs, each result code corresponds to one of the APIs;
receiving an interface-based notification carrying to a corresponding result code sent by the open platform and forwarded by the third-party application server, the result code being associated with the charge deduction result;
invoking the corresponding API to display the interface-based notification on the graphical user interface.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein receiving, from the third-party application server, delivery of the virtual commodity to the user account corresponding to the account identifier further comprises:
receiving a URL of a delivery failure notification page from the third-party application server after the third-party application server fails in the delivery and the open network platform refunds the deducted charge to the user account corresponding to the account identifier and sends a delivery failure notification to the third-party application server, the delivery failure notification carrying a result code indicative of a failed delivery and the URL of the delivery failure notification page;
invoking a second API corresponding to the result code indicative of the failed delivery to access the URL of the delivery failure notification page; and
after the user terminal has accessed the URL of the delivery failure notification page, receiving data on the delivery failure notification page.

5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a URL of a charge deduction failure notification page from the third-party application server after the third-party application server receives a charge deduction failure notification from the open network platform, the charge deduction failure notification carrying a result code indicative of a failed charge deduction and the URL of the charge deduction failure notification page;
invoking a third API corresponding to the result code indicative of the failed charge deduction to access the URL of the charge deduction failure notification page; and
after the user terminal has accessed the URL, receiving data on the charge deduction failure notification page.

6. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
in response to determining that the account identifier does not have the DND payment attribute, receiving a URL of a payment page from the third-party application server after the third-party application server receives a non-DND payment notification from the open network platform, the non-DND payment notification carrying a transaction identifier, a result code indicative of a non-DND payment, and the URL of the payment page;
invoking a fourth API corresponding to the result code indicative of the non-DND payment to access the URL of the payment page; and
after the user terminal has accessed the URL, sending a payment confirmation notification carrying the transaction identifier based on user input on the payment page displayed in the graphical user interface of the third-party application, such that the open network platform deducts a charge from the user account corresponding to the account identifier.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein invoking the fourth API corresponding to the result code indicative of the non-DND payment comprises:
rendering and displaying a second window in an upper layer on graphical user interface of the third-party application; and
locking a layer lower than the second window on the graphical user interface, wherein only operation on the second window displayed on the upper layer is accepted by the user terminal until the second window is closed.

8. A user terminal for processing a payment request for a virtual commodity on an open network platform, comprising:
a memory; and
a processor coupled to the memory and configured to perform:
executing a third-party application on a graphical user interface;
receiving a payment request of the virtual commodity based

Assignees

• Tencent Tech Shenzhen Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Ding
• Chen Ningguo
• Deng Jianwei
• Zhao Mingming
• Fan Hailiang
• Liao Yulan
• Chen Ruting
• Fei Qiang
• Wang Songjian

Classifications

• G06Q20/02 Primary

  involving a neutral party, e.g. certification authority, notary or trusted third party [TTP] · CPC title

• G06Q20/123

  Shopping for digital content · CPC title

• G06Q20/027

  involving a payment switch or gateway · CPC title

• G06Q30/06

  Buying, selling or leasing transactions · CPC title

• G06Q20/22 Primary

  Payment schemes or models · CPC title