Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Electronic shopping
Patent
1998-06-29
2000-06-06
Tkacs, Stephen R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Electronic shopping
705 26, 705 40, 705 39, G06F 1700
Patent
active
060731133
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a modular infrastructure for electronic commerce that allows electronic financial instruments to work with a variety of different protocols. One embodiment of the present invention receives a request for an operation, and checks compatibility between the operation and available protocols for the operation to determine a set of compatible protocols. Next, the system checks compatibility between the set of compatible protocols and available instruments for the operation to determine a set of compatible instruments. If the set of compatible instruments includes at least one instrument, the system selects a compatible instrument and a corresponding compatible protocol, and uses this instrument and protocol to perform the operation. In a variation on the above embodiment, the act of selecting the compatible protocol and the compatible instrument entails presenting the set of compatible protocols and the set of compatible instruments to a user, and allowing the user to select the compatible protocol and the compatible instrument for the operation.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5850652 (1998-12-01), Berger et al.
patent: 5889863 (1999-03-01), Weber
patent: 5903652 (1999-05-01), Mital
Bahreman, A et al., "Payment method negotiation service--framework and programming specification" Proc. Of the 2.sup.nd Usenix Workshop on Electronic Commerce, Nov. 18-21, 1996, pp. 299-314, XP002111239.
VeriFone & Netscape Internet Alliance, Newsbytes, Jan. 24, 1996.
Groutt Phillip
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Tkacs Stephen R.
LandOfFree
Compatibility checking between instruments, operations and proto does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Compatibility checking between instruments, operations and proto, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Compatibility checking between instruments, operations and proto will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-2223046