Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Accounting
Reexamination Certificate
2011-04-12
2011-04-12
Gart, Matthew S (Department: 3687)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Accounting
C705S026640, C705S040000, C709S241000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07925554
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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Bunti
Geller Alan S.
Ghare Gaurav D.
Jain Tushar
Johnson Don
Sirota Peter
Amazon Technologies Inc.
Gart Matthew S
Hayles Ashford
Seed IP Law Group PLLC
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