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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2009
Glyn Barry Smith, Chesterfield, GB;
Glyn Barry Smith, Chesterfield, GB;
Boku, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided to process transactions initiated by users of mobile devices. In one aspect, a system includes a data storage facility to store phone numbers of users, and an interchange coupled with the data storage facility. The interchange includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of different controllers of mobile communications. The converters are configured to communicate with the common format processor in a common format and to communicate with the controllers in different formats. The interchange uses the converters to transmit at least one premium message to a mobile phone at a first telephone number to provide an amount to the mobile phone using funds associated with a second telephone number, in response to a request initiated from a mobile phone at the second telephone number.