Method for managing commerce contexts

• US 7,447,781 B2
• Filed: 12/10/2003
• Issued: 11/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chan, Victor S., Mirlas, Lev, Fok, Madeline K. Y., Dunn, Robert M. H., Kwok, Raymond K. M.
• Primary Examiner(s): WON, MICHAEL YOUNG
• Application Number:
  US10/732,751
• Publication Number:
  US 20040260757A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,791 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/217, 709/223, 709/212, 709/219, 709/228, 709/229, 709/226, 705/26, 705/27
• US Class Current: 709/228
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/142 Managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A method for managing commerce contexts between a direct commerce context and a temporary commerce context in a client session. Commerce context parameters are associated with the direct and temporary commerce contexts. The commerce context associated with a client request is determined according to the commerce context parameters associated with the client request.

Claims

1. For a data processing system, a method for managing commerce contexts, the data processing system being associated with a direct commerce context and a temporary commerce context, the data processing system being operatively coupled to memory having a session area, said method comprising the steps of:

receiving a client request associated with a commerce context parameter;

determining the commerce context associated with said commerce context parameter; and

constructing the commerce context associated with said commerce context parameter, wherein said client request further includes a second commerce context parameter, and wherein said method further comprises the step of defining said second commerce context parameter in the session area.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of determining the commerce context associated with said commerce context parameter includes determining whether said commerce context parameter identifies said direct commerce context or said temporary commerce context.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said commerce context parameter is included in said client request.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said commerce context parameter is defined in the session area.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising the step of executing said client request using said constructed commerce context.