ONLINE LOGO TOOL

• US 20150154209A1
• Filed: 02/12/2015
• Published: 06/04/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: O'Leary, Timothy
• Granted Patent: US 9,218,433 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

An online tool allows a user, such as an online merchant, to access a page of a service provider, select a format, customize funding sources and designs, and copy and paste the code to the merchant page to quickly and easily create a customized funding source graphic.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a memory storing logo images; and

a hardware processor adapted to;

receive, from a user, a selection of one or more logo images to be displayed on a website;

generate a preview of the website overlaid with the selected one or more logo images, wherein the selected one or more logo images are movable within the website for the user to designate positions of the selected one or more logo images within the website; and

generate code for displaying the selected one or more logo images on the website.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the logo images comprise logo images of third-party funding sources.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the hardware processor is further adapted to:

receive a Universal Resource Locator (URL) of the website from the user;

determine a format for displaying the selected one or more logo images on the website; and

generate the code in Hyper Text Mark Up (HTML) format for displaying the selected one or more logo images on the website.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the preview comprises a color palette for selecting a background color of the selected one or more logo images on the website.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more logo images are selected by dragging and dropping the one or more logo images from a first area in which selectable logo images are displayed to a second area in which selected logo images are displayed.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein when a logo image of a funding source is selected, the hardware processor is further adapted to present information about the funding source comprising countries where the funding source is accepted, a percentage of users having or using the funding source in each country, and usage information of the funding source for purchases made with a merchant.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the hardware processor is further adapted to:

receive a selection of a type of format for the one or more selected logo images from the user; and

format the one or more selected logo images for display on the website based on the type of format selected.

8. A method comprising:

receiving from a user, by a hardware processor, a selection of one or more logo images to be displayed on a website;

generating, by the hardware processor, a preview of the website overlaid with the selected one or more logo images, wherein the selected one or more logo images are movable within the website for the user to designate positions of the selected one or more logo images within the website; and

generating, by the hardware processor, code for displaying the selected one or more logo images on the website.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the logo images comprise logo images of third-party funding sources.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving a Universal Resource Locator (URL) of the website from the user;

determining a format for displaying the selected one or more logo images on the website; and

generating the code in Hyper Text Mark Up (HTML) format for displaying the selected one or more logo images on the website.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising presenting a color palette for selecting a background color of the selected one or more logo images on the website.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the one or more logo images are selected by dragging and dropping the one or more logo images from a first area in which selectable logo images are displayed to a second area in which selected logo images are displayed.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising, when a logo image of a funding source is selected, presenting information about the funding source comprising countries where the funding source is accepted, a percentage of users having or using the funding source in each country, and usage information of the funding source for purchases made with a merchant.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving a selection of a type of format for the one or more selected logo images from the user; and

formatting the one or more selected logo images for display on the website based on the type of format selected.

15. The method of claim 8, further comprising determining a type of format for the one or more selected logo images based on a screen scrape of the website.

16. A machine-readable medium comprising a plurality of machine-readable instructions which when executed by one or more processors of a server are adapted to cause the server to perform a method comprising:

receiving from a user a selection of one or more logo images to be displayed on a website;

generating a preview of the website overlaid with the selected one or more logo images, wherein the selected one or more logo images are movable within the website for the user to designate positions of the selected one or more logo images within the website; and

generating code for displaying the selected one or more logo images on the website.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the logo images comprise logo images of third-party funding sources.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a Universal Resource Locator (URL) of the website from the user;

determining a format for displaying the selected one or more logo images on the website; and

generating the code in Hyper Text Mark Up (HTML) format for displaying the selected one or more logo images on the website.

19. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the one or more logo images are selected by dragging and dropping the one or more logo images from a first area in which selectable logo images are displayed to a second area in which selected logo images are displayed.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises, when a logo image of a funding source is selected, presenting information about the funding source comprising countries where the funding source is accepted, a percentage of users having or using the funding source in each country, and usage information of the funding source for purchases made with a merchant.