Vikas Kumar Gupta

US Patent:

8099361, Jan 17, 2012

Filed:

Aug 4, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/634135

Inventors:

Vikas Gupta - Seattle WA, US
Jeyandran Venugopal - Bellevue WA, US
Xiaosi Li - Bainbridge Island WA, US

Assignee:

Amazon.com, Inc. - Seattle WA

International Classification:

G06Q 40/00

US Classification:

705 40, 705 39

Abstract:

A network-based transaction processing system allows online users to flexibly and efficiently make payments using a combination of different payment instruments. The system includes a user interface through which each user can define one or more personal payment plans. Each such payment plan specifies a plurality of payment instruments, and includes rules that specify how the monetary amount associated with a transaction is to be divided among these payment instruments. These rules may be non-transaction-specific, such that a user can re-use a payment plan over time to complete multiple transactions. In one embodiment, a user can specify an order in which the payment instruments are to be applied, and can specify per-transaction maximum monetary amounts to be charged to specific instruments.

US Patent:

8554675, Oct 8, 2013

Filed:

Jan 3, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/342841

Inventors:

Vikas Gupta - Seattle WA, US
Jeyandran Venugopal - Bellevue WA, US
Xiaosi Li - Bainbridge Island WA, US

Assignee:

Amazon.com, Inc. - Seattle WA

International Classification:

G06Q 40/00

US Classification:

705 40

Abstract:

A network-based transaction processing system allows users to flexibly and efficiently make payments using a combination of different payment instruments. The system includes a user interface through which a user can define one or more payment plans, each of which may specify a plurality of payment instruments and associated rules for dividing payment amounts among these payment instruments. These rules may be non-transaction-specific, such that a user can re-use a payment plan over time to complete multiple transactions. When placing an order or otherwise initiating a payment transaction, the user can select a payment plan for use in completing the transaction.

US Patent:

20070156611, Jul 5, 2007

Filed:

Sep 29, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/537538

Inventors:

Vikas Gupta - Seattle WA, US
Allan Vermeulen - Seattle WA, US
Eugene Wei - Seattle WA, US
Andrew Jassy - Seattle WA, US
Jeffrey Bezos - Seattle WA, US
Duane Krause - Seattle WA, US
David Schappell - Seattle WA, US

International Classification:

G06Q 99/00

US Classification:

705078000

Abstract:

Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as via a third-party transaction authorization system that automatically authorizes transactions between parties. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing payments for transactions between Web service provider and consumer parties in accordance with private authorization instructions previously specified by the parties. The authorization instructions may include predefined instruction rule sets that regulate conditions under which a potential transaction can be authorized, with the instruction rule sets each referenced by an associated reference token. The transaction authorization system can then receive a reference token from each party to a potential transaction, and determine whether to authorize the transaction based on whether the instruction rule sets associated with the reference tokens are compatible or otherwise satisfied.

US Patent:

20140173699, Jun 19, 2014

Filed:

Dec 19, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/721003

Inventors:

- Redmond WA, US
Bryon Barnard - Snoqualmie WA, US
Vikas Gupta - Bellevue WA, US
Anatoliy Panasyuk - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04L 29/06

US Classification:

726 4

Abstract:

Permission to access an organization's resources may be automatically assigned based on one or more structures within that organization. In one example, structural maps of an organization are received, where the structural maps indicate the reporting hierarchy of the organization, geographic subdivisions, substantive subdivisions, etc. Templates are received describing how permissions are to be assigned to particular substructures within the organization. The templates are then fitted to the organization, and permissions to access particular resources are assigned to members of the organization based on the templates. An administrator may modify the assigned permissions. Work requests may be routed to people based on which people have permission to access the resources involved in the work request.