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Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 24, 2011
Applicants:

Peter Sirota, Seattle, WA (US);

Don Johnson, Seattle, WA (US);

Gaurav D. Ghare, Seattle, WA (US);

Tushar Jain, Bellevue, WA (US);

Alan S. Geller, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Peter Sirota, Seattle, WA (US);

Don Johnson, Seattle, WA (US);

Gaurav D. Ghare, Seattle, WA (US);

Tushar Jain, Bellevue, WA (US);

Alan S. Geller, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); G07F 19/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01); A61K 48/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 48/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques are described for facilitating use of invocable services by applications in a configurable manner. In at least some situations, the invocable services are Web services or other network-accessible services that 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 such invocable services by applications in a manner configured by the application providers and the service providers, including to track use of third-party invocable services by applications on behalf of end users and to allocate fees that are charged end users between the applications and the services as configured by the providers of the applications and services. In some situations, the configured pricing terms for a service specify fees for end users that differ in one or more ways from the defined fees charged by the provider of that service.


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