Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Eric Michael Laird

Gregory Branchek Roth

Jesper Mikael Johansson

Darren Ernest Canavor

Matthew Ryan Jezorek

David James Kane-Parry

Brian Young Lee

James Arthur Wilson

Scott Donald Gregory

Scott Kenneth Bishop

Ido Mittelman

Brenda Renee' Campbell

A payment object service receives a request from a giver to associate a payment amount to an object. The request includes one or more images of the object and recipient information, which the payment object service uses to determine whether the association between these images and the information is unique. If the association is unique, the payment object service updates a database to associate the payment amount to the object and enable redemption of the payment amount. When the payment object service receives a request to redeem at least a portion of the payment amount, the payment object service may use one or more images and recipient information obtained from the request to verify that the images and information together correspond to the object. Once the redemption is complete, the payment object service may update the database to specify the current remaining payment amount.

Method, medium, and system for associating a payment amount with a physical object

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Eric Michael Laird