Integrating third party shopping cart applications with an online payment service

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016110798-A1
Application number	US-201514981505-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 28, 2015
Priority date	Nov 14, 2003
Publication date	Apr 21, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method may include receiving at an online payment service hosted on a first system, detailed information from an auction management (AM) system, the AM system hosted on a second system remote from the first system. The information may concern an item purchased by a user from a network-based commerce facility and placed in a virtual shopping cart on the AM system. The detailed information may be sent by the AM system in response to receiving an intent to proceed with payment for the item. A user interface may be communicated to the user that facilitates processing of the payment for the item. The processing may include marking the payment as being an AM payment. The interface may allow the user to view the detailed information and the detailed information describing contents of the virtual shopping cart on the AM system.

First claim

1 . A multi-merchant virtual shopping cart content display system, comprising:
a non-transitory memory that associates a user account with virtual shopping cart contents for each of a plurality of virtual shopping carts that were each created with a different merchant; and one or more hardware processors that are coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations comprising:
identifying the plurality of virtual shopping carts associated with the user account in the non-transitory memory;
generating and providing a graphical user interface for display on a display device, wherein the graphical user interface includes a virtual shopping cart identifier for each of the plurality of virtual shopping carts and a respective virtual shopping cart contents link for each of the virtual shopping cart identifiers;
receiving a selection of a first virtual shopping cart contents link on the graphical user interface and, in response, retrieving first virtual shopping cart contents from the non-transitory memory for a first virtual shopping cart that was created with a first merchant, and providing the first virtual shopping cart contents for display on the display device; and
receiving a selection of a second virtual shopping cart contents link on the graphical user interface and, in response, retrieving second virtual shopping cart contents from the non-transitory memory for a second virtual shopping cart that was created with a second merchant that is different than the first merchant, and providing the second virtual shopping cart contents for display on the display device.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the virtual shopping cart contents for each of the plurality of virtual shopping carts include one or more of items names of items in the virtual shopping cart, item numbers of items in the virtual shopping cart, item prices of items in the virtual shopping cart, quantities of items in the virtual shopping cart, and item options for items in the virtual shopping cart.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of virtual shopping carts were created with the different merchants via respective merchant websites of the different merchants.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the graphical user interface includes a respective virtual shopping cart status for each of the virtual shopping cart identifiers that identifies whether the virtual shopping cart contents of the associated virtual shopping cart have been claimed.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the graphical user interface includes a respective virtual shopping cart creation date for each of the virtual shopping cart identifiers that identifies a date on which the associated virtual shopping cart was created.

6 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the graphical user interface includes a respective merchant identifier for each of the virtual shopping cart identifiers that identifies merchant with which the associated virtual shopping cart was created.

7 . A method for displaying virtual shopping cart contents of virtual shopping carts created with a plurality of different merchants, comprising:
identifying, by a payment service device in a database, a plurality of virtual shopping carts that were each created with a different merchant using a user account; generating, by the payment service device on a display device, a graphical user interface for display that includes a virtual shopping cart identifier for each of the plurality of virtual shopping carts and a respective virtual shopping cart contents link for each of the virtual shopping cart identifiers; receiving, by the payment service device, a selection of a first virtual shopping cart contents link on the graphical user interface and, in response, retrieving first virtual shopping cart contents from the database for a first virtual shopping cart that was created with a first merchant, and providing the first virtual shopping cart contents for display on the display device; and receiving, by the payment service device, a selection of a second virtual shopping cart contents link on the graphical user interface and, in response, retrieving second virtual shopping cart contents from the database for a second virtual shopping cart that was created with a second merchant that is different than the first merchant, and providing the second virtual shopping cart contents for display on the display device.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the virtual shopping cart contents for each of the plurality of virtual shopping carts include one or more of items names of items in the virtual shopping cart, item numbers of items in the virtual shopping cart, item prices of items in the virtual shopping cart, quantities of items in the virtual shopping cart, and item options for items in the virtual shopping cart

9 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the plurality of virtual shopping carts were created with the different merchants via respective merchant websites of the different merchants.

10 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the graphical user interface includes a respective virtual shopping cart status for each of the virtual shopping cart identifiers that identifies whether the virtual shopping cart contents of the associated virtual shopping cart have been claimed.

11 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the graphical user interface includes a respective virtual shopping cart creation date for each of the virtual shopping cart identifiers that identifies a date on which the associated virtual shopping cart was created.

12 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the graphical user interface includes a respective merchant identifier for each of the virtual shopping cart identifiers that identifies merchant with which the associated virtual shopping cart was created.

13 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
receiving, by the payment service device, the first virtual shopping cart contents and an identifier for the user account from a first merchant device of the first merchant, and storing the first virtual shopping cart contents in the database in association with the user account; and receiving, by the payment service device, the second virtual shopping cart contents and an identifier for the user account from a second merchant device of the second merchant, and storing the second virtual shopping cart contents in the database in association with the user account.

14 . A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:
identifying, in storage system, a plurality of virtual shopping carts that were each created with a different merchant using a user account, and that are each associated with virtual shopping cart contents in the storage system; generating, for display on a display device, a graphical user interface that includes a virtual shopping cart identifier for each of the plurality of virtual shopping carts and a respective virtual shopping cart contents link for each of the virtual shopping cart identifiers; receiving, from an input device, a selection of a first virtual shopping cart contents link on the graphical user interface and, in response, retrieving first virtual shopping cart contents from the storage system for a first virtual shopping cart that was created with a first merchant, and providing the first virtual shopping cart contents for display on the display device; and receiving, from the input device, a selection of a second virtual shopping cart contents link on the graphical user interface and, in response, r

Assignees

• Paypal Inc

Inventors

• Woo Katherine
• Liu Deborah Yee-Ky

Classifications

• G06Q20/12

  specially adapted for electronic shopping systems · CPC title

• G06Q30/06

  Buying, selling or leasing transactions · CPC title

• G06Q30/0633 Primary

  Managing shopping lists, e.g. compiling or processing purchase lists (shipping orders G06Q10/083; order filling G06Q10/087) · CPC title

• G06Q30/0613

  using intermediate agents · CPC title

• G06Q30/0641

  utilising user interfaces specially adapted for shopping · CPC title