Browser Extension for Pre-Authorizing Future Purchases
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current computer-based systems lack the capability to efficiently manage user accounts for pre-authorizing and executing future purchase transactions for items not yet available for sale, requiring manual intervention and lacking automated search and purchase functionality.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that provides an online portal enabling users to pre-authorize purchases for items not yet available, automatically searching for electronic sources and executing transactions on the future date of availability, utilizing a browser extension application to navigate and complete purchases securely.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual intervention is used for future purchase transactions, then user control and security are maintained, but transaction efficiency and automation are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by allowing users to pre-authorize future purchases and have the system automatically search for and execute transactions when items become available. The browser extension proactively monitors for item availability and executes pre-planned purchases without requiring manual intervention at the time of purchase, thereby improving transaction efficiency while maintaining user control through pre-established authorization.
2Productivity
If automated search and purchase execution is implemented, then transaction efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a browser extension as an intermediary component that bridges the user's existing browser and the purchase execution system. This extension handles the automated search and transaction execution by leveraging the browser's existing infrastructure for navigation and communication, thereby implementing automated transactions without significantly increasing overall system complexity. The extension acts as a mediator between the user's pre-authorization and the actual purchase execution.
Solution Approach 2:
The browser extension leverages the universal capabilities of web browsers for navigation, communication, and transaction execution, rather than requiring a dedicated complex system. By using the browser's existing multi-functional architecture, the system achieves automated purchase execution without proportionally increasing complexity, as the same browser infrastructure serves multiple purposes including display, communication, and transaction processing.
3Reliability
If virtual credentials are used for secure transactions, then user protection is enhanced, but ease of operation may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by having the browser extension automatically handle the complexities of virtual credential generation, selection, and execution without requiring users to manually configure or understand the security mechanisms. Users simply pre-authorize purchases through intuitive interfaces, and the system automatically manages the virtual credentials and transaction execution, thereby enhancing user protection while maintaining ease of operation through automation.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods involving a computer-implemented portal that enables a user to pre-authorize purchase of items not yet available for sale are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary method may comprise: providing an online portal that enables a user to manage a financial account; executing a first routine of the portal including interactive functionality enabling the user to specify and pre-authorize purchase of an item that is not yet available for sale; searching to determine at least one electronic source at which the item can be purchased when it becomes available for purchase; and executing a purchase transaction at the future date/time when the item is released for sale, to purchase the item for the user.