US 7,591,424 B2
Framework for adding billing payment types
Xingheng Wang, Bellevue, Wash. (US); Mahesh Jayaram, Redmond, Wash. (US); Rajesh Kuppuswamy, Kirkland, Wash. (US); Stuart H. Marshall, Seattle, Wash. (US); and Yunkai Zhou, Bellevue, Wash. (US)
Assigned to Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Wash. (US)
Filed on Mar. 30, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/394,993.
Prior Publication US 2007/0233573 A1, Oct. 04, 2007
Int. Cl. G06K 15/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 235—383  [235/385; 705/26] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for resuming an ecommerce purchase transaction that failed, the method comprising the steps of:
displaying a pending purchase transaction that did not complete a prior payment process on one of a plurality of third party payment processing systems that was visited at an earlier time;
prompting a user to select an operation selected from a group comprising a revival operation and a restart operation;
if the user selects the revival operation, then redirecting the user back to the third party payment processing system to complete the prior payment process; and
if the user selects the restart operation, then canceling the prior payment process and beginning a new payment process.