Patent ID: 9258146
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of selectively providing a retail management service over a computer network, the method comprising: receiving an application cookie from a point-of-sale application, the application cookie identifying a particular user role associated with a user of the point-of-sale application; accessing a services data store to determine at least one retail management service based on the particular user role identified in the application cookie, the retail management service providing retail management functionality for the point-of-sale application over the computer network; populating, using a computer processor, a service cookie based on the application cookie received from the point-of-sale application, the service cookie being populated with information identifying that the retail management service is available to a user of the point-of-sale application having the particular user role; transmitting the populated service cookie to the point-of-sale application; receiving, from the point-of-sale application, a request to access the retail management service, the request including the service cookie; verifying the service cookie received with the request; and providing the point-of-sale application access to the retail management functionality of the retail management service based on the verification of the service cookie.