SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING CALL REQUEST AGGREGATION OVER A NETWORK

• US 20140164047A1
• Filed: 02/12/2014
• Published: 06/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Shafi, Mohammed Saleem, ERWA, ELMUSTAFA E.
• Granted Patent: US 9,633,321 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.26
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/541 Client-server
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/547 Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06316 Sequencing of tasks or work
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/102 Bill distribution or payments
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for facilitating electronic commerce over a network includes identifying input dependencies for a call request based on information passed with the call request, identifying state dependencies for the call request based on information passed with the call request, parallelizing calls from the call request based on at least one of the identified input dependencies and the identified state dependencies, developing a service execution map by grouping calls in an execution order including parallelized calls, and processing the service execution map by executing grouped calls in the execution order including parallelized calls.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a non-transitory memory storing a service execution map for executing calls; and

one or more hardware processors in communication with the non-transitory memory and operable for

receiving a call request from a user via communication with a user device over the network;

identifying one or more input dependencies for the call request based on information passed with the call request;

identifying one or more state dependencies for the call request based on information passed with the call request including meta-data related to the calls request;

parallelizing calls from the call request based on at least one of the identified input dependencies and the identified state dependencies;

developing a service execution map by grouping calls in an execution order including parallelized calls;

processing the service execution map by executing grouped calls in the execution order including parallelized calls comprising a pay call, followed by a call to execute a payment request; and

returning responses to the user for the executed calls.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the pay call comprises a call to identify a payment sender identifier, a payment recipient identifier, a payment amount, and a payment currency.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein a call to set cobranding options and a call to set an initiator are executed in parallel.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the call to set cobranding options and a call to set an initiator are executed in parallel following execution of the pay call.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein a call to get payment details is executed.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the call to get payment details is executed following execution of the call to execute a payment request.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the developing comprises identifying an empty field in the call request, searching one or more previous calls for data necessary for the empty field, and selecting a call having the data necessary with a highest group number.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein a group number is set to zero when starting the service execution map.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the call request includes a batch call having multiple calls grouped together in a batch and the service execution map is developed based on a list of call requests in the batch call.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein identifying the input dependencies allows automatic population of dependent data for a present call with data from a previous call.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein calls having an input dependency or a state dependency are executed in sequence and calls having no input dependencies or no state dependencies are executed in parallel.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method comprising:

receiving a call request from a user via communication with a user device over the network;

identifying one or more input dependencies for the call request based on information passed with the call request;

identifying one or more state dependencies for the call request based on information passed with the call request including meta-data related to the calls request;

parallelizing calls from the call request based on at least one of the identified input dependencies and the identified state dependencies;

developing a service execution map by grouping calls in an execution order including parallelized calls;

processing the service execution map by executing grouped calls in the execution order including parallelized calls comprising a pay call, followed by a call to execute a payment request; and

returning responses to the user for the executed calls.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the pay call comprises a call to identify a payment sender identifier, a payment recipient identifier, a payment amount, and a payment currency.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein a call to set cobranding options and a call to set an initiator are executed in parallel.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the call to set cobranding options and a call to set an initiator are executed in parallel following execution of the pay call.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein a call to get payment details is executed following execution of the call to execute a payment request.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the developing comprises identifying an empty field in the call request, searching one or more previous calls for data necessary for the empty field, and selecting a call having the data necessary with a highest group number.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the call request includes a batch call having multiple calls grouped together in a batch and the service execution map is developed based on a list of call requests in the batch call.

19. A method for facilitating electronic transactions over a network, the method comprising:

receiving a call request from a user via communication with a user device over the network;

identifying one or more input dependencies for the call request based on information passed with the call request;

identifying one or more state dependencies for the call request based on information passed with the call request including meta-data related to the calls request;

parallelizing calls from the call request based on at least one of the identified input dependencies and the identified state dependencies;

developing a service execution map by grouping calls in an execution order including parallelized calls;

processing the service execution map by executing grouped calls in the execution order including parallelized calls comprising a pay call, followed by a call to execute a payment request; and

returning responses to the user for the executed calls.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the pay call comprises a call to identify a payment sender identifier, a payment recipient identifier, a payment amount, and a payment currency.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein a call to set cobranding options and a call to set an initiator are executed in parallel follows execution of the pay call.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein a call to get payment details is executed following execution of the call to execute a payment request.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein the call request includes a batch call having multiple calls grouped together in a batch and the service execution map is developed based on a list of call requests in the batch call.

24. The method of claim 19, wherein identifying the input dependencies allows automatic population of dependent data for a present call with data from a previous call.