Systems and methods for facilitating call request aggregation over a network

• US 9,633,321 B2
• Filed: 02/12/2014
• Issued: 04/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Shafi, Mohammed Saleem, Erwa, Elmustafa E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kraft, Shih-Wei
• Application Number:
  US14/179,514
• Publication Number:
  US 20140164047A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,168 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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

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; and

one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations comprising;

receiving a call request comprising a pay call via a communication with a user device over a network;

determining that a set cobranding options call and a set initiator information call share an input dependency on the pay call;

determining that an execute payment call has state dependencies on the set cobranding options call and the set initiator information call;

parallelizing the set cobranding options call and the set initiator information call in response to the determining the set cobranding options call and the set initiator information call share the input dependency;

developing a service execution map that groups the pay call, the set cobranding options call, the set initiator information call, and the execute payment call in an execution order based on the input dependency and the state dependencies, the execution order including;

executing the pay call;

executing the set cobranding options call and the set initiator information call in parallel subsequent to the executing the pay call; and

executing the execute payment call subsequent to the executing the set cobranding options call and the set initiator information call in parallel;

executing the grouped calls according to the execution order; and

in response to the executing the grouped calls, returning responses to the user device.

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

3. The system of claim 1, wherein executing the grouped calls in the execution order further comprises executing a get payment details call.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the get payment details call is executed following the execute payment call.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the developing the service execution map comprises identifying an empty field in the call request, wherein each call of the grouped calls corresponds to a given group number, and wherein the operations further comprise:

searching one or more previous calls for data necessary to fill the empty field; and

selecting a call from the one or more previous calls comprising the data necessary to fill the empty field, wherein the selected call corresponds to a highest group number.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein developing the service execution map comprises initializing a group number.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the call request comprises a batch call comprising 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.

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

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the execute payment call and a get payment details call are executed in sequence and the set cobranding options call and the set initiator information call are executed in parallel.

10. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:

receiving a call request comprising a pay call via a communication with a user device over a network;

determining that a set cobranding options call and a set initiator information call share an input dependency on the pay call;

determining that an execute payment call has state dependencies on the set cobranding options call and the set initiator information call;

parallelizing the set cobranding options call and the set initiator information call in response to the determining the set cobranding options call and the set initiator information call share the input dependency;

developing a service execution map that groups the pay call, the set cobranding options call, the set initiator information call, and the execute payment call in an execution order based on the input dependency and the state dependencies, the execution order including;

executing the pay call;

executing the set cobranding options call and the set initiator information call in parallel subsequent to the executing the pay call; and

executing the execute payment call subsequent to the executing the set cobranding options call and the set initiator information call in parallel;

executing the grouped calls according to the execution order; and

in response to the executing the grouped calls, returning responses to the user device for the execute payment call.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the pay call comprises a call to identify a payment sender identifier, a payment recipient identifier, a payment amount, and a payment currency.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 10, wherein a get payment details call is executed following the execute payment call.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the service execution map comprises identifying an empty field in the call request, and wherein the operations further comprise:

searching one or more previous calls for data necessary to fill the empty field; and

selecting a call from the one or more previous calls comprising the data necessary to fill the empty field, wherein the selected call corresponds to a highest group number.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the call request comprises 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.

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

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

determining that a set cobranding options call and a set initiator information call share an input dependency on the pay call;

determining that an execute payment call has state dependencies on the set cobranding options call and the set initiator information call;

parallelizing the set cobranding options call and the set initiator information call in response to the determining the set cobranding options call and the set initiator information call share the input dependency;

developing a service execution map that groups the pay call, the set cobranding options call, the set initiator information call, and the execute payment call in an execution order based on the input dependency and the state dependencies, the execution order including;

executing the pay call;

executing the set cobranding options call and the set initiator information call in parallel subsequent to the executing the pay call; and

executing the execute payment call subsequent to the executing the set cobranding options call and the set initiator information call in parallel;

executing the grouped calls according to the execution order; and

in response to the executing the grouped calls, returning responses to the user device.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the pay call comprises a call to identify a payment sender identifier, a payment recipient identifier, a payment amount, and a payment currency.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein a get payment details call is executed following the execute payment call.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the call request comprises a batch call comprising 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. The method of claim 15, wherein dependent data of at least one of the set cobranding options call and the set initiator information call is automatically populated from the pay call.