Patent ID: 9652752
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A payment processing method comprising: receiving, via a network, a payment request by a payment processing system; setting a transaction timeout period after which the payment request times out by the payment processing system; processing, by the payment processing system, the payment request according to a defined payment process including a plurality of processing elements, at least one of the processing elements: wherein the at least one processing element includes an associated element timeout period, the method further including when determined that the transaction timeout period has not expired but the remaining time to process the payment request is less than the element timeout period, adjusting the element timeout period to be less than remaining transaction timeout period time and permitting the at least one processing element execution to proceed; when determined that the transaction timeout period has not expired and the remaining time to process the payment request is greater than the element timeout period, permitting the at least one processing element execution to proceed.