Patent 11949685 was granted and assigned to PayPal on April, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Systems and methods are provided for an application platform with flexible permissioning. In one embodiment, an application platform with flexible permissioning comprises: a service provider server adapted to interact with an application development server and a client device over a network, the service provider server adapted to implement at least one application programming interface (API); one or more processors; and one or more memories adapted to store machine-readable instructions which when executed by the processors cause the application platform with flexible permissioning to: maintain a profile associated with at least one application developer using the application development server; receive an API call from the application developer; authenticate the application developer and authorize the API call; assign an access level to the application developer based on the profile associated with the application developer; and control permissions given to the application developer to perform operations available based on the assigned access level.