Sprint Communications Comapny L.p.

T-mobile Innovations LLC

Alberto Lorente

Lyle W Paczkowski

Mark Richard Bales

Craig A Lee

A mobile communication device. The device comprises a processor, a non-transitory memory, a cellular radio transceiver, and an in-kind payment client application stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor, the client application initiates an in-kind payment from a first wireless communication service account that is associated with the mobile communication device to a second wireless communication service account associated with a second mobile communication device, sends a verification request message to the second mobile communication device, receives an in-kind payment verification response message from the second mobile communication device, where the response message comprises an indication of a location of the second mobile communication device and an indication of completion of an in-kind payment to the second wireless communication service account, and analyzes the indication of location of the second mobile communication device and the indication of completion of the in-kind payment.

Mobile communication device in-kind payment verification

A method recording in-kind payments from a wireless communication service account. The method comprises building a block-chain associated with a wireless communication service account by an application executing on a computer system, where the block-chain encapsulates logic instructions, building a first block recording a first in-kind payment by the application based on executing the logic instructions encapsulated in the block-chain, where the first block comprises a first plurality of event records, a first nonce value, and a first hash value based on a hash value from a preceding block, on the first plurality of event records, and the first nonce value, and sending an in-kind payment authorization message to a wireless communication service billing system, whereby the first in-kind payment is committed.

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Alberto Lorente