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| Available via | http://dbpubs.stanford.edu/pub/1996-8 | ||
| Submitted on | 26th of February 2000 | ||
| Author | Ketchpel, S.; Garcia-Molina, H.; Paepcke, A.; Hassan, S.; Cousins, S. | ||
| Title | U-PAI: A Universal Payment Application Interface | ||
| Date of publication | 1996 | ||
| Citation | S. Ketchpel,H. Garcia-Molina,A. Paepcke,S. Hassan,S. Cousins: U-PAI: A Universal Payment Application Interface. The Second USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce Proceedings. 1996. p. 105 - 121. | ||
| Language | English | ||
| Project | Digital Libraries | ||
| Type | Conference or Journal Paper | ||
| Subject group | Digital Libraries; E-Commerce | ||
| Abstract | The progress of electronic commerce has been stymied by the lack of widely accepted network payment mechanisms. A number of proposals have been put forward, and each one offers a slightly different protocol and set of features. Yet none has achieved the critical mass to become an accepted standard. We believe that there will continue to be a variety of payment mechanisms, so in this paper we propose U-PAI, a universal payment application interface that will enable a programmer to write for one interface, and then interact with any payment mechanism. Each payment mechanism can support the universal API directly, or a proxy or wrapper can be built to translate U-PAI calls to the appropriate native calls supported by the payment mechanisms. In this paper we illustrate how two such proxies could be built. We also provide, in the appendix, a full CORBA spof U-PAI. | ||
| Keywords | payment mechanism, interoperation, AccountHandle, API | ||
| Notes | Previous number = SIDL-WP-1996-0039 | ||
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