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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2016
Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey F. Iacono, San Francisco, CA (US);
Derek Hammer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jesse L. Reiss, Berkeley, CA (US);
Alexander Soong, San Francisco, CA (US);
SQUARE, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and environment to enable entities to utilize courier services provided by a service provider are described herein. In some examples, the service provider exposes the courier services to a computing device associated with a merchant, buyer, and/or others using one or more Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) provided by the service provider. The one or more APIs may enable merchants and/or others to automatically integrate the courier services into technologies used by the merchants and/or others in order to facilitate delivery of items that are offered for acquisition by the merchants.