Patent ID: 7356507
Filing Date: 2008-04-08
Classification: G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
1. A server system for providing a network-based user-to-user payment service, comprising: a pay page generation module which provides functionality for payees to remotely create customized pay pages for receiving payments from other users; a pay box generation module which provides functionality for the payees to remotely create pay boxes that provide links to their own pay pages from external web pages, wherein the pay box generation module is configured to generate, and output to a user, coding that is adapted to be incorporated into an external web page to cause the external web page to display a corresponding pay box, said coding configured to cause a browser that loads the external web page to retrieve a pay box display object from the server system and to display the pay box display object on the external web page, said pay box display object being selectable by visitors to access a corresponding pay page, said external web page hosted by a computer system that is separate from the server system; a data repository that stores descriptions of the pay pages and the associated pay boxes created by payees; a pay page display module which displays outputs pay pages as described in said data repository for display to visitors; and a transaction processing module which is responsive to a payment request initiated by a visitor of a pay page by using payment information of the visitor to cause a transfer of funds from an account of the visitor to a payee account associated with the pay page.