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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 11, 2015
Applicant:

Staples, Inc., Framingham, MA (US);

Inventors:

Matthew Lincoln, Chicago, IL (US);

Faisal Masud, Boston, MA (US);

Alison Gaddis, Lincolnshire, IL (US);

Assignee:

Staples, Inc., Framingham, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/12 (2012.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01); G06Q 20/14 (2012.01); G06Q 40/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/12 (2013.01); G06Q 20/14 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0637 (2013.01); G06Q 40/025 (2013.01);
Abstract

Technology for selectively providing an invoice payment option in an e-commerce application is described. In an example embodiment, a method selectively determines to activate the invoice payment option for the business customer in a graphical user interface associated with the e-commerce application based on the status of the invoice account of the business customer and a determination that the one or more items in the virtual shopping cart are approved for the invoice payment option. The method generates the graphical user interface including the invoice payment option and the summary of the virtual shopping cart and provides providing the graphical user interface including the invoice payment option and the summary of the virtual shopping cart for presentation on the client device associated with the business account of the business customer.


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