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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2013
Boku, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Katherine Ann Corner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Wellington W. Sculley, San Francisco, CA (US);
Oliver J. McCarthy-Foecke, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chia-ling Sung, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Ly, San Francisco, CA (US);
Samantha Elena Nebrich, San Francisco, CA (US);
Boku, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A parking request text message is transmitted from a user mobile phone to a billing server and is forwarded to a parking server. The parking server makes a charge API call to the billing server, including a custom text, an amount to be billed and a msisdn of the mobile phone. The billing server charges an account at a carrier server corresponding to the msisdn, receives a charge confirmation from the carrier server, transmits a billing result to the parking server, and sends a confirmation text message to the user mobile phone with the custom text. The parking server updates a parking data structure to indicate that parking has been allotted based on a parking identification in the parking request text message.