Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Business processing using cryptography – Usage protection of distributed data files
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-29
2011-11-08
Obeid, Mamon (Department: 3621)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Business processing using cryptography
Usage protection of distributed data files
C705S053000, C709S217000, C709S220000, C709S229000, C709S245000, C719S328000, C719S329000, C719S330000, C719S331000, C719S332000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08055586
ABSTRACT:
Techniques are described for facilitating use of sequences of invocable services in a configurable manner, including by providing a metering service that tracks the use of invocable services by other invocable services or applications. In at least some situations, the invocable services are fee-based Web services or other fee-based network-accessible services, and 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 a sequence of such invocable services by applications in a manner configured by the creators of the applications and providers of the services, including to allow the application creators to define pricing terms that will be used to determine fees that end users of the applications will be charged for use of the invocable services via the applications.
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Ghare Gaurav D.
Jain Tushar
Johnson Don
Mohrman Aaron
Sirota Peter
Amazon Technologies Inc.
Obeid Mamon
Seed IP Law Group PLLC
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