SAVING MERCHANT ARTIFACTS TO A VIRTUAL WALLET

摘要

A virtual wallet system provides embedded controls to a merchant for association and display with merchant artifacts on a merchant interface. Merchant artifacts may include begin-of-purchase flow items such as coupons, and end-of-purchase flow item such as tickets. When the embedded control displayed on the merchant interface is selected by a user, a save artifact request is communicated to a virtual wallet server allowing the user to instantly save an instance of the merchant artifact to the user's corresponding virtual wallet account.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method to store merchant artifacts to virtual wallets, comprising:
providing, by a virtual wallet server, an embedded control and a minimum renderable format (MRF) file to a merchant computing device operated by a merchant, wherein the merchant computing device displays the embedded control in association with a merchant artifact on a merchant user interface, the embedded control comprising an application program interface that generates save artifact requests in response to selection of the embedded control, and wherein the MRF defines required artifact parameters that must be included in save artifact requests; generating, by the embedded control element, a save artifact request in response to selection of the embedded control displayed in the merchant user interface displayed on a remote user device, the save artifact requests comprising artifact data extracted by the embedded control element from the displayed merchant artifact and as defined by the MRF; communicating, by the embedded control element, the save artifact request to the virtual wallet server; generating, by the virtual wallet server, a saved version of the merchant artifact in a virtual wallet account associated with a user of the remote user device in response to receiving the save artifact request, the saved version of the merchant artifact generated based on the artifact parameters in the save artifact request such that the merchant artifact will display in a virtual wallet user interface when accessed by the user.