Patent ID: 11887117
Assignee: SALESFORCE, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 4:
5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the payment gateway is one of a plurality of payment gateways that has been integrated with the cloud computing platform so that clients of the cloud computing platform are able perform payment transactions with customers using the payment gateways via the cloud computing platform, and
wherein using the transaction data to generate the transformed version of the subsequent payment transaction request, and sending the transformed version of the subsequent payment transaction request to the payment gateway, comprises:
initializing and calling a particular payment gateway adapter of a plurality of payment gateway adapters to send the subsequent payment transaction request to the particular payment gateway adapter, wherein each payment gateway is an application service provider that provides a payment gateway adapter configured for different payment gateway functionality, and wherein the particular payment gateway adapter corresponds to the payment gateway that is one of the plurality of payment gateways, and wherein the particular payment gateway adapter, is configurable to cause: receiving and processing payment transaction requests from clients; and processing and returning payment transaction responses that originate from one of the payment gateways;
transforming, at the particular payment gateway adapter, the subsequent payment transaction request into a gateway specific format of the payment gateway to generate the transformed version of the subsequent payment transaction request; and
performing internal processing at the payments platform and calling the payment gateway via the particular payment gateway adapter to send the transformed version of the subsequent payment transaction request to the payment gateway.