Patent ID: 11907984
Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
providing by a browser plug in of a web browser of a computing device, a message associated with an online transaction between a user and a merchant, wherein the message comprises an unfamiliar merchant name associated with the merchant, and wherein the unfamiliar merchant name is a name corresponding to a payment gateway associated with at least one potential familiar merchant name;
determining, by the browser plug in of the web browser of the computing device, the at least one potential familiar merchant name based on the unfamiliar merchant name associated with the online transaction between the user and the merchant;
scanning, by the browser plug in of the web browser, a browser history of the web browser for a predetermined payment pattern that includes the at least one potential familiar merchant name based on determining the at least one potential familiar merchant name, wherein the browser history of the web browser comprises browser data of the user, and wherein scanning the browser history of the web browser for the predetermined payment pattern that includes the at least one potential familiar merchant name comprises:
scanning, by the browser plug in, the browser data of the browser history for the predetermined payment pattern that includes the at least one potential familiar merchant name based on the user device granting permission to the browser plug in to scan the browser data;
identifying, by the browser plug in, the predetermined payment pattern in the browser data of the browser history; and
identifying, by the browser plug in, a uniform resource location (URL) associated with the payment gateway in the browser data; and

providing, by the browser plug in of the web browser, the at least one potential familiar merchant name in response to determining that the user visited a website associated with the at least one potential familiar merchant name.