Payments platform, method and system for a cloud computing platform

US11887076B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Salesforce, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Tarundeep Batra · Fremont, US
• Manasa Ranjan Tripathy · Bengaluru, IN
• Ravi Shankar · Jamkhed, IN
• Himanshu Kapoor · Ghanpur, IN
• Ravindra Akella · White Plains, US
• John Banks · Los Altos, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 29, 2021
• Grant date: Jan 30, 2024
• Expiry date: Dec 28, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q20/204
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A cloud-based computing system is provided that includes a payments platform for integrating payment gateway services with a cloud computing platform so that clients of the cloud computing platform can perform payment transactions with customers via the cloud computing platform. The payment gateways that include a particular payment gateway. The cloud computing platform can include a multitenant database system that provides applications and services to a plurality of clients, and a payments platform module. Each client can be, for example, a tenant or organization of the cloud computing platform that transacts business with one or more customers via a payment gateway. The payments platform module has a pluggable architecture for integrating each of the payment gateway adapters with the cloud computing platform.