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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2009
Glyn Barry Smith, Chesterfield, GB;
Glyn Barry Smith, Chesterfield, GB;
Boku, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided to facilitate online transactions via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes a data storage facility to store an account identifier of a user and a phone number of the user 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 controllers in different formats; and the converters are configured to communicate with the common format processor in a common format to facilitate electronic payment transactions using the account identifier.