This Amazon patent lists Jeff Bezos as an inventor and is directed towards performing automatically authorized programmatic transactions. Mr. Bezos was awarded U.S. Patent 7962419 entitled “Performing automatically authorized programmatic transactions” on June 14, 2011. The utility patent has been cited 14 times by other U.S. patents in the field of it methods for management and in other fields.

Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by performing transactions between parties that are automatically authorized via a third-party transaction authorization system. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing payments in accordance with private authorization instructions previously specified by the parties. The authorization instructions may include predefined instruction rule sets that regulate conditions under which a potential transaction can be authorized, with the instruction rule sets each referenced by an associated reference token. After one or more of the parties to a potential transaction supply reference tokens for the parties, the transaction authorization system can determine whether to authorize the transaction based on whether the instruction rule sets associated with the reference tokens are compatible or otherwise satisfied. Link: U.S. Patent 7962419

Amazon filed this utility patent on August 18, 2009 giving it a processing time of 665 days (compared to an average processing time of 1250 in the field). They have a total number of 6869 patents. The first named inventor is Jeffrey P. Bezos of Seattle, WA. The patent was allowed by primary examiner James A Reagan and examiner .

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