Google Inc.

Paypal, Inc.

Ebay, Incorporated

Franck Chastagnol

Vijay Karunamurthy

Matthew Liu

Christopher Maxcy

Hugo Olliphant

Peter Zhe Chu

William Wu

Thach Dang

Thomas Veino

Yi-Ling Su

Carol Gunby

Chris Brown

Steven Aihua Chen

Aaron Kwong Yue Lee

Thai Tran

Steve S Chen

Shashi Seth

Dean Yasuda

Zheng Liu

George Strompolos

Wendy Billman

A system and method to associate an electronic gift certificate with a payment services account to cause presentation of the electronic gift certificate based on meeting a predetermined condition. A gift certificate is purchased on-line and associated with a recipient's payment services account by the electronic gift certificate purchaser. A graphical user interface representing the payment services account of the recipient is presented with a record of the electronic gift certificate in a hidden state within the payment services account. Determining the predetermined condition is met, unmarking the record of the electronic gift certificate and causing presentation of a gift certificate button within the user interface representing the payment services account.

Presenting previously hidden user interface options within a graphical user interface

A method and system for facilitating online payments are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a payment agreement is established at a payment service provider that defines terms of a payment relationship between a merchant and a user. The establishing of the payment agreement includes linking the payment agreement with a payment account of the merchant or user stored at the payment service provider. After establishing the payment agreement, a payment request associated with a transaction is received, whereby the payment request includes a unique identifier to identify the payment agreement stored at the payment service provider. Based on a verification that the payment request complies with terms of the payment agreement, the payment request is processed.

Method and system for facilitating online payments based on an established payment agreement

A system, method and various software tools enable a video hosting website to automatically identified unlicensed audio content in video files uploaded by users, and initiate a process by which the user can replace the unlicensed content with licensed audio content. An audio replacement tool is provided that enables the user to permanently mute the original, unlicensed audio content of a video file, or select a licensed audio file from a collection of licensed audio, and insert the selected in place of the original audio. Where a video file includes unlicensed audio, the video hosting website provides access to video files to a client device, along with an indication to the client device to mute the audio during playback of the video.

Blocking of unlicensed audio content in video files on a video hosting website

The examples provide a content item distributor computing system that is configured to determine characteristics of content providers and providing content items to certain categories of content providers. In one embodiment, the content item distributor receives a request from a content provider to receive content items and determines if a provided set of video content has a minimum number of viewers and meets a standard for upload content. In response to the determination, the content item distributor communicates a content item to the video content provider to present in conjunction with video content.

Categorizing digital content providers

A system, method and various software tools enable a video hosting website to automatically identified unlicensed audio content in video files uploaded by users, and initiate a process by which the user can replace the unlicensed content with licensed audio content. An audio replacement tool is provided that enables the user to permanently mute the original, unlicensed audio content of a video file, or select a licensed audio file from a collection of licensed audio, and insert the selected in place of the original audio.

Site directed management of audio components of uploaded video files

Methods and system for admitting a content provider into a revenue sharing program are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a request from a content provider to participate in the revenue sharing partner program and determining whether to invite the content provider based at least in part on infraction information associated with the content provider.

Monetization of digital content contributions

A method and system for facilitating merchant-initiated online payments are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a payment service provider's server receives a user's request, via a merchant's server, to establish a merchant-initiated payment relationship or agreement. Accordingly, the payment service provider presents the user with options to customize the terms of the merchant-initiated payment agreement. After the agreement has been established and the terms customized, the merchant server communicates a merchant-initiated payment request to the pavement service provider for a transaction entered into with the user. The payment service provider's server processes the payment request after verifying that processing the payment does not exceed the user-customized terms of the agreement.

Method and system for facilitating merchant-initiated online payments

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Franck Chastagnol