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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2004
Hugo Olliphant, San Francisco, CA (US);
Franck Chastagnol, Redwood City, CA (US);
Yi-ling Su, Los Altos, CA (US);
William Wu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chris Brown, Berkeley, CA (US);
Thach Dang, Burlingame, CA (US);
Thomas Veino, San Jose, CA (US);
Carol Gunby, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter Chu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Steve Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Hugo Olliphant, San Francisco, CA (US);
Franck Chastagnol, Redwood City, CA (US);
Yi-Ling Su, Los Altos, CA (US);
William Wu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chris Brown, Berkeley, CA (US);
Thach Dang, Burlingame, CA (US);
Thomas Veino, San Jose, CA (US);
Carol Gunby, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter Chu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Steve Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
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.