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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2016
Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Namfon Brizendine, Shawnee, KS (US);
Tae-Woo Cha, Overland Park, KS (US);
Michael A. Gailloux, Overland Park, KS (US);
Adam Pickett, Prairie Village, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
The systems and methods discussed herein enable telecommunications service providers to track opt-ins (consent) to premium service and goods purchases. An industry aggregator gateway may be employed to receive short codes in messages built by IP messaging applications capable of data transmission, and may transmit the messages to telecommunications service providers and receive purchase information associated with various short codes. At least some of this purchase information is displayed to users to obtain consent to the purchase, and the consent trail from the request to the acceptance of purchase information, including terms and charges, is tracked and stored.