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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2017
T-mobile Innovations Llc, Overland Park, KS (US);
Mark R. Bales, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
Craig A. Lee, Overland Park, KS (US);
Alberto Lorente, Kansas City, MO (US);
Lyle W. Paczkowski, Mission Hills, KS (US);
T-Mobile Innovations LLC, Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
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.