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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2014
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Matthew Ryan Jezorek, Maple Valley, WA (US);
Scott Kenneth Bishop, Seattle, WA (US);
Brenda Renee' Campbell, Seattle, WA (US);
Darren Ernest Canavor, Redmond, WA (US);
Scott Donald Gregory, Issaquah, WA (US);
Jesper Mikael Johansson, Redmond, WA (US);
David James Kane-Parry, Seattle, WA (US);
Eric Michael Laird, Seattle, WA (US);
Brian Young Lee, Seattle, WA (US);
Ido Mittelman, Redmond, WA (US);
Gregory Branchek Roth, Seattle, WA (US);
James Arthur Wilson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
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.