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Aravind Aluri

George Li

Huiyong Xiao

Cherie Kwan

Sarah Waskom

Dale Lemieux

Arik Cohen

Joel Botner

Ziquan Li

Sunil Kadam

Sanjeev Dwivedi

Ariye M Cohen

Alwin Vyhmeister

Varun Eda Naarayana Kulothungan

Saurabh Boyed

An applications programming interface (API) or other interface may be configured for use with a plurality of e-commerce applications and/or a plurality of payment systems. The API may be associated with an operating system of a client or may be otherwise located in an e-commerce system or network. The API may receive a call regarding a purchase transaction. The purchase transaction may be examined to determine if a payment method is synchronous or asynchronous. An appropriate payment system may be activated to perform the purchase transaction based at least in part on the determination made by the examination of the purchase transaction. A result of the purchase transaction may be sent to the e-commerce program. By revision of the API, developers of e-commerce applications are freed from the burden of revising code in response to the need to utilize additional or differently operated payment systems.

Extensible interface for synchronous and asynchronous payment

A master license entry that links a software application to a user identification can be made. Application licenses to use the software application can be roamed to multiple computing machines. Feature licenses for added features of the software application can be roamed to those computing machines as well. Multiple overlapping license rights for the software application may be linked to the master license entry. A count of how many license rights for the software application are linked to the master license entry can be maintained. Requests for licenses may be refused if the count of license rights has reached zero.

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