Apparatus and method for processing a multimedia commerce service

• US 10,387,857 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2014
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Youngah, Park, Hojoo, Kim, Junhee, Kim, Hanseok, Park, Jungnam, Clayton, Jim
• Primary Examiner(s): Nigh, James D
• Assistant Examiner(s): Immanuel, Isidora I
• Application Number:
  US14/194,132
• Publication Number:
  US 20140244488A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,999 Days
• Field of Search: 705 64
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/02 involving a neutral party, e.g. certification authority, notary or trusted third party [TTP]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/123 Shopping for digital content
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/306 using TV related infrastructures external card used for payment with client device H04N21/4185
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 2220/123 involving third party for collecting or distributing payments, e.g. clearinghouse
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1614 using bitmaps

Abstract

A method of processing a commerce service in a commerce processor communicating with a customer premises equipment (CPE), the method including executing a first browser and outputting a coordinate corresponding to a bitmap associated with inputted payment data on a screen of the first browser, receiving coordinate values corresponding to payment data through the output coordinate, transmitting the received coordinate values based on a communication protocol to a second browser, unscrambling the transmitted coordinate values corresponding to the payment data and retrieving payment data from the unscrambled coordinate values, and performing a payment process for a product item corresponding to the retrieved payment data.

Claims

1. A method of processing a commerce service, the method comprising:

receiving, by a customer premises equipment (CPE), a request signal for an input of payment data;

executing, by the CPE, a first browser and outputting a payment user interface (UI) for receiving the payment data on a screen of the first browser in response to the request signal, the first browser being an embedded browser included in the CPE;

receiving, at the first browser, the payment data from a user;

transmitting a specific coordinates value corresponding to the received payment data and a scrambled bitmap image corresponding to the specific coordinates value from the first browser to a second browser corresponding to a remote browser through a remote protocol;

delivering, by the second browser, the scrambled bitmap image corresponding to the specific coordinates value, to a payment data processor included in a third party;

unscrambling, by the payment data processor, the scrambled bitmap image to generate an unscrambled bitmap image;

processing a payment process for a product item using the unscrambled bitmap image; and

transmitting, by the second browser, a payment result based on the payment process to the first browser.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the specific coordinates value includes a code which corresponds to a credit card number associated with the payment data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the specific coordinates value includes a number transformed from the code.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first browser receives the payment data from a third-party application, wherein the third-party application is included in a local browser on a mobile computing device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the payment data processor generates bitmap geometries corresponding to the payment data.

6. A system including a customer premise equipment (CPE) for processing a commerce service, the system comprising:

the CPE including a processor and a first browser;

a second browser corresponding to a remote browser; and

a payment data processor,

wherein the processor is configured to;

receive a request signal for an input of payment data,

execute a first browser and output a payment user interface (UI) for receiving the payment data on a screen of the first browser in response to the request signal, the first browser being an embedded browser included in the CPE,

receive, at the first browser, the payment data from a user,

transmit a specific coordinates value corresponding to the received payment data and a scrambled bitmap image corresponding to the specific coordinates value from the first browser to the second browser corresponding to a remote browser through a remote protocol, wherein the second browser delivers the scrambled bitmap image corresponding to the specific coordinates value to the payment data processor included in a third party and the payment data processor unscrambles the scrambled bitmap image to generate an unscrambled bitmap image, and

receive, through the first browser, a payment result from the second browser based on a payment process for a product item.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the specific coordinates value includes a code which corresponds to a credit card number associated with the payment data.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the specific coordinates value includes a number transformed from the code.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the first browser receives the payment data from a third-party application, wherein the third-party application is included in a local browser on a mobile computing device.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the payment data processor generates bitmap geometries corresponding to the payment data.