Patent ID: 8099363
Filing Date: 2012-01-17
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving a purchase request and an indication of a corresponding requestor at a merchant computer system; initiating, at the merchant computer system, an electronic mail message to an electronic mail address associated with the requestor in response to the purchase request, wherein the electronic mail message includes a textual description of the purchase request and a first computer readable link to a first network address of a card processor computer system, and wherein the first computer readable link is configured to be displayed at by a requestor computer system as a first requestor-selectable link within the electronic mail message; and receiving an authorization indication at the merchant computer system from the card processor computer system that the purchase request is approved as a card-present financial transaction; wherein the receiving the purchase request, the initiating of the electronic mail message, and the receiving of the authorization indication are performed in a suitably programmed merchant computer system.