METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PAYMENT SERVICE

• US 20150066754A1
• Filed: 08/21/2014
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: K-Innovation
• Original Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
• Inventors: HONG, Seong Bong, KIM, Hyun Gu, LEE, Jin Woong
• Application Number:
  US14/465,081
• Publication Number:
  US 20150066754A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/102 Bill distribution or payments
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing

Abstract

Provided is a method and system for a payment service. A payment service method embodied in a computer to provide a payment service may include registering and maintaining a product in a product database for each service, with respect to a plurality of services, creating billing information of a requested product in response to a call of an application program interface (API) of a service for which a product purchase is requested from a user, using the product database, and providing the billing information to a market associated with the user. Here, a payment according to the product purchase may be processed at the market based on the billing information.

Claims

1. A payment service method embodied in a computer to provide a payment service, the method comprising:

registering and maintaining a product in a product database maintained in the computer for each service, with respect to a plurality of services;

creating billing information of a requested product in response to a call of an application program interface (API) of a service for which a product purchase is requested from a user, using the product database; and

providing the billing information to a market associated with the user,

wherein a payment according to the product purchase is processed at the market based on the billing information.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the billing information or payment information created at the market in a payment history database in association with the service or the user; and

creating payment settlement information on the service or the user using the payment history database.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

providing the payment settlement information in response to a request from a provider of the service or the user.

5. Non-transitory computer-readable media storing a program to implement the method of claim 1.

4. A payment service method embodied in a computer to provide a payment service, the method comprising:

providing information on a product to a terminal of a user;

receiving a purchase request for the product from the terminal of the user;

calling an application program interface (API) associated with a payment service server in response to the purchase request; and

receiving payment information created by processing the purchase request at a market associated with the user,

wherein the payment information is created at the market based on billing information that is created at the payment service server using a product database in response to the call of the API, and a product is registered and maintained in the product database for each service, with respect to a plurality of services.

6. A payment service system, comprising:

storage configured to store a product database in which a product is registered and maintain for each service, with respect to a plurality of services; and

at least one processor,

wherein the at least one processor is configured to perform

a process of creating billing information of a requested product in response to a call of an application program interface (API) of a service for which a product purchase is requested from a user, using the product database, and

a process of providing the billing information to a market associated with the user, and

a payment according to the product purchase is processed at the market based on the billing information.

7. The payment service system of claim 6, wherein the storage is configured to further store a payment history database in which the billing information or payment information created at the market is stored and managed in association with the service or the user, and

the at least one processor is configured to further perform a process of creating payment settlement information on the service or the user using the payment history database.

8. The payment service system of claim 7, wherein the at least one processor is configured to further perform a process of providing the payment settlement information in response to a request from a provider of the service or the user.

9. A payment service system, comprising:

storage configured to store information on a product; and

at least one processor,

wherein the at least one processor is configured to perform

a process of providing information on the product stored in the storage to a terminal of a user,

a process of receiving a purchase request for the product from the terminal of the user,

a process of calling an application program interface (API) associated with a payment service server in response to the purchase request, and

a process of receiving payment information created by processing the purchase request at a market associated with the user, and

the payment information is created at the market based on billing information that is created at the payment service server using a product database in response to the call of the API, and a product is registered and maintained in the product database for each service, with respect to a plurality of services.