Browser Extension Payment Constraints for Secure Multiparty Disbursement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems for multiparty transactions, particularly lease-to-own arrangements, face inefficiencies and fraud risks due to the need for manual reconciliation and lack of scalable, compliant financing solutions, which hinder the integrity and security of transactions.

Innovation Solution

A system and method utilizing a web browser extension that imposes constraints on transactions by reading shopping cart information, determining eligibility for lease-to-own arrangements, and facilitating secure funds disbursement through virtual payment cards or physical credit cards, ensuring compliance and reducing manual intervention.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual reconciliation processes are used for multiparty transactions, then transaction security can be maintained through human verification, but transaction efficiency and productivity deteriorate due to time-consuming manual intervention

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction securityVSAvoidtransaction efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual mechanical reconciliation processes with an automated electronic system. The browser extension automatically captures transaction data, generates virtual payment cards, and coordinates between retailer, consumer, and lease-to-own company systems through API communications, eliminating the need for manual verification while maintaining security through automated constraint checking and eligibility validation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a browser extension as an intermediary component that mediates between the consumer, retailer website, and lease-to-own company systems. This extension automatically captures shopping cart information, validates eligibility constraints, generates virtual payment cards, and coordinates fund disbursement, thereby automating the reconciliation process while maintaining transaction security through multiple validation layers

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If scalable financing solutions are implemented, then consumer access to financing improves, but system complexity increases due to compliance requirements and multiparty coordination

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefinancing accessibilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a universal browser extension that can be deployed across multiple retailers and works with various lease-to-own companies through standardized API interfaces. The extension handles multiple functions including eligibility validation, virtual card generation, transaction coordination, and compliance checking within a single integrated system, making scalable financing accessible without proportionally increasing complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses parameter-based constraint validation where eligibility criteria are defined as configurable parameters (credit thresholds, transaction amount limits, product category restrictions). The system dynamically adjusts and validates these parameters during the checkout process, allowing scalable deployment across different retailers and lease-to-own companies without hardcoding complex business logic

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Speed

If automated constraint imposition is implemented, then transaction processing speed improves, but measurement precision requirements increase to ensure proper eligibility validation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction processing speedVSAvoideligibility validation accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary eligibility validation by capturing shopping cart information and checking constraint satisfaction before the consumer reaches the payment page. The browser extension pre-validates credit eligibility, transaction amount constraints, and product category restrictions, so that only pre-approved transactions proceed to payment processing. This preliminary action ensures measurement precision is maintained while enabling fast automated processing during the actual transaction

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250217874A1System and method for improved execution of a multiparty transaction involving electronic funds disbursement
Publication Date: 2025.07.03 RENT A CENTER WEST INC
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AI summary

In an illustrative embodiment, systems and methods by which a computerized platform may interoperate with a web browser extension and a payment mechanism to permit an electronic multiparty funds disbursement transaction. The web browser extension may interoperate with a website visited by a user for the purpose of conducting a transaction, such as an online retail website. The web browser extension may introduce a mechanism for imposing certain constraints upon the transaction to ensure the integrity or security of the transaction. The web browser extension may interoperate with the aforementioned website so as to automatically conduct some or all of the steps associated with conducting a transaction thereon. In connection with such transactions, the systems and methods herein may use virtual payment card or other payment card that is devoted effectuating multiparty transactions of sorts contemplated herein.