Browser Extension Identifies Payment Options via Network Traffic Logs
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Solution Overview
Problem
Online service providers face difficulties in efficiently analyzing network traffic logs and mapping domains to determine available payment options across different websites and platforms, due to varying webpage constructions and layouts, which hinders their ability to provide comprehensive services to users.
Innovation Solution
A browser extension or plug-in that monitors and processes network traffic logs to identify payment options by extracting data from HTML, XML, and JavaScript code, using an inference mode to detect and record user interactions, and map payment options across different websites and platforms, enabling users to compare and engage with various payment providers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If manual monitoring and scraping of merchant websites is performed, then data can be extracted from websites, but manual efforts are required and users must review data and navigate to different platforms
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically monitors network traffic logs, extracts payment option data, and maps domains without requiring user intervention. The browser extension autonomously captures HTML, XML, and JavaScript code, processes it through parsing operations, and identifies payment processors, eliminating the need for users to manually navigate and review data on different platforms.
2Extent of automation
If automated computing tools are used to monitor websites, then data extraction is automated, but specific knowledge of webpage layouts and navigation is required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal system that handles multiple webpage constructions and layouts through a single browser extension. The log parsing application processes various data formats (HTML, XML, JavaScript) and identifies payment options across different merchant websites without requiring separate configurations or specific knowledge of each webpage's structure. The system adapts to different platforms through standardized parsing operations.
3Quantity of substance
If data is collected from multiple merchant websites, then more payment options become available, but analyzing and mapping domains across different platforms becomes difficult due to varying webpage constructions
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the complex task of analyzing multiple websites into distinct processing stages: capturing network traffic logs, parsing HTML/XML/JavaScript code, identifying payment processor assets, and mapping domains. Each stage handles specific aspects of data extraction independently, making the overall process more manageable. The log parsing application breaks down webpage constructions into extractable payment option data through systematic parsing operations.
Data Source
AI summary
There are provided systems and methods for identifying data processing operations on websites using network traffic logs. A service provider server may provide website and application tools that may track user navigations, inputs and selections, and other operations with merchant websites and/or online merchant marketplaces. Further, the service provider may provide discounts and offers during purchases and transactions with the online merchants, which may further provide reward points or value based on use of the service provider's services. In order to determine available payment options on merchant websites and/or via merchant applications, the service provider may process network traffic logs and other network traffic data. This may include scripts and codes to identify assets for payment service providers. The service provider may utilize an inference mode of a scripted parsing operation to identify these assets and payment options, and record with domains in order to log such availability.