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Payment service capable of being integrated with merchant sites

  • US 9,779,436 B2
  • Filed: 12/19/2013
  • Issued: 10/03/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/09/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system, comprising:

  • a first server system that operates in a first network domain, said first server system storing account information, including payment information, of a user, said first server system providing a service for enabling users to place orders on merchant systems outside the first network domain without having to create accounts with, and without having to supply payment information to, such merchant systems; and

    a second server system that operates in a second network domain that is distinct from the first network domain, said second server system hosting a merchant interface of a merchant, said merchant interface including a page that includes a reference to a display object served by the first server system, said reference configured to cause user computing devices that load the page from the second server system to request the display object from the first server system for display on the page;

    said first server system operative to authenticate the user and to transmit, to a user computing device of the user, identification data for storage on the user computing device, said identification data associated with the first network domain but not the second network domain, said identification data including information associated with the user;

    said first server system configured to respond to a request from the user computing device for the display object by at least (1) using the identification data, as returned by the user computing device, to associate the request for the display object with the user, and (2) returning to the user computing device a personalized display object for display on the page of the merchant interface, said personalized display object providing functionality for the user to use the service to place an order on the merchant interface, whereby the user can place said order on the merchant interface without creating an account with, and without supplying payment information to, the second server system.

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