System and method for personalized commands

• US 9,292,839 B2
• Filed: 05/19/2014
• Issued: 03/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gupta, Diwakar, Huang, Chih-Jen, Yuen, Philip, Yuen, Gerald
• Primary Examiner(s): Poinvil, Frantzy
• Application Number:
  US14/281,533
• Publication Number:
  US 20140258103A1
• Time in Patent Office: 673 Days
• Field of Search: 705 3- 44
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting

Abstract

Various embodiments of a system and method for personalized commands are described. The system and method for personalized commands may include a payment service including a command management component. Such payment service may be responsive to one or more base commands. The command management component may be configured to generate a user interface for specifying personalized commands that correspond to the base commands. The command management component may be configured to generate mapping information from the information received via the user interface. The command management component may be configured to receive one or more messages that may include commands for the payment service, including personalized commands. From the personalized commands, the command management component may be configured to determine a corresponding base commands (e.g., based on the mapping information). Once the base command is determined, the payment service may perform the base command.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a service implemented by one or more hardware computing devices and responsive to one or more base commands, wherein the service comprises;

a command management component comprising program instructions that when executed cause the one or more hardware computing devices to;

provide to respective remote devices for different ones of a plurality of accounts, a user interface for specification of one or more personalized commands for a respective account;

receive from a respective one of the remote devices, via the user interface, an indication of one or more personalized commands for the respective account, the one or more personalized commands corresponding to one or more respective base commands for the respective account;

generate a mapping of the one or more personalized commands to the corresponding one or more respective base commands; and

a data store configured to receive the mapping from the command management component and store the mapping, wherein the mapping comprises one or more respective associations between the one or more personalized commands and the corresponding one or more respective base commands;

wherein the command management component further comprises program instructions that are executed by the one or more hardware computing devices to;

receive from a different respective one of the remote devices, for a different account, different personalized information for one or more of the base commands;

generate another mapping of a different personalized command to a corresponding one of the base commands; and

store the other mapping in the data store such that a request that is associated with the respective account or the different account and that specifies a personalized command is associated with a respective base command in accordance with the respective mapping for either the respective account or the different account.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the data store is further configured to store one or more command mapping tables, and wherein the command management component further comprises program instructions that are executed by the one or more hardware computing devices to store the generated mapping information in the one or more command mapping tables of the data store.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the user interface comprises a control for activating personalized commands for the particular account, selection of the control determining whether personalized command functionality is available for the particular account.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the command management component further comprises program instructions that when executed cause the one or more hardware computing devices to:

determine that a submitted personalized command that corresponds to a particular base command has already been submitted for another base command of a base command set; and

prompt the user to change at least one of the submitted personalized commands.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the service is a payment service and the base commands comprise at least one of a balance command, transfer command, payment command or purchase command.

6. A computer-implemented method, comprising,

for a plurality of accounts of a web service that is responsive to one or more base commands, the one or more base commands associated with respective functions of the web service and the respective functions provided for use by account users via indication of the one or more base commands:

providing, by a command management component of the web service implemented by one or more hardware computing devices to respective remote devices for different ones of a plurality of accounts, a user interface for specifying one or more personalized commands for the respective account, wherein the command management component is implemented by program instructions executed by one or more hardware computing devices;

receiving, by the command management component from a respective one of the remote devices via the user interface, one or more indications of one or more personalized commands for the respective account, the one or more personalized commands corresponding to one or more respective base commands for the respective account;

associating, by the command management component, the one or more indicated personalized commands with the respective one or more base commands;

storing, by the command management component to a data store, one or more respective associations between the one or more indicated personalized commands and the corresponding one or more respective base commands;

receiving, by the command management component from a different respective one of the remote devices for a different account of the plurality of accounts, one or more different personalized commands associated with respective one or more base commands;

associating by the command management component, the one or more different personalized commands with the corresponding one or more base commands; and

storing, by the command management component, the association to the data store such that a request that is associated with the respective account or the different account and that specifies a personalized command is associated with a respective base command in accordance with the respective association for either the respective account or the different account.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein said storing, by the command management component to a data store further comprises storing the generated mapping information in command mapping tables in a data store.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, further comprising providing, via the user interface, a selectable control for determining whether personalized command functionality is available for a particular account, selection of the selectable control activating personalized commands for the particular account.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, further comprising:

determine that a submitted personalized command that corresponds to a particular base command has already been submitted for another base command of a base command set; and

prompting the user to change at least one of the submitted personalized commands.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the service is a payment service and the base commands comprise at least one of a balance command, transfer command, payment command or purchase command.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, further comprising correlating, by the command management component, a particular personalized command with two or more base commands such that submission of the particular personalized command causes performance of two or more respective actions associated with the two or more base commands.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program instructions that when executed on a hardware computer device implement a service responsive to one or more base commands, wherein a command management component of the service is configured to:

for different ones of a plurality of different accounts;

provide, by the command management component to respective remote devices for different ones of a plurality of account, a user interface for specifying one or more personalized commands for a respective account;

receive, from a respective one of the remote devices via the user interface, one or more indications of one or more personalized commands corresponding to one or more respective base commands for the respective account; and

store, to a data store, the one or more respective associations between the one or more received personalized commands and the corresponding one or more respective base commands; and

associate, for different accounts, different personalized information with respective base commands, such that a request that is associated with a particular account and that specifies at least one of the one or more personalized commands is associated with one or more respective base commands in accordance with the respective one or more respective associations for the particular account.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the command management component is further configured to store the generated mapping information to one or more command mapping tables of the data store.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the user interface is configured with a control for activating personalized commands for the particular account, and wherein selection of the control determines whether personalized command functionality is available for the particular account.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the command management component is further configured to enable disablement of one or more base commands such that the service is rendered unresponsive to the disabled one or more base commands.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the user interface is configured with one or more text entry fields that enable submission of the personalized commands.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the command management component is further configured to apply one or more requirements to the personalized commands, the requirements comprising a minimum or maximum string length.