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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2011
Peter Sirota, Seattle, WA (US);
Don Johnson, Seattle, WA (US);
Gaurav D. Ghare, Seattle, WA (US);
Aaron Mohrman, Seattle, WA (US);
Tushar Jain, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric M. Wagner, Seattle, WA (US);
Peter Sirota, Seattle, WA (US);
Don Johnson, Seattle, WA (US);
Gaurav D. Ghare, Seattle, WA (US);
Aaron Mohrman, Seattle, WA (US);
Tushar Jain, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric M. Wagner, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described for facilitating use of sequences of invocable services in a configurable manner, including by providing a metering service that tracks the use of invocable services by other invocable services or applications. In at least some situations, the invocable services are fee-based Web services or other fee-based network-accessible services, and are made available by providers of the services for use by others in exchange for fees defined by the service providers. The described techniques facilitate use of a sequence of such invocable services by applications in a manner configured by the creators of the applications and providers of the services, including to allow the application creators to define pricing terms that will be used to determine fees that end users of the applications will be charged for use of the invocable services via the applications.