Purchasing using a physical object

US7533059B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Jeffrey Alton Gattis · Seattle, US
• Dana Lu Silverstein · Dublin, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 14, 2007
• Grant date: May 12, 2009
• Expiry date: Mar 14, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q20/102
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Using a user interface to allow payment for physical or virtual goods to be made through a physical object. A method may be practiced in a computing system including a user interface. The method includes detecting a payment physical object, and payment capabilities associated with the payment physical object. User input is received. The user input includes at least one of physically dragging a physical object to the detected physical object, or graphically dragging the physical or a virtual object to the detected payment physical object by dragging a graphical representation of the physical or the virtual object to the detected payment physical object. Payment for the physical or virtual object is facilitated using the payment capabilities associated with the payment physical object.