Convergent communications platform and method for mobile and electronic commerce in a heterogeneous network environment

US9098958B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• UPAID SYSTEMS, LTD. · VG

Inventors

• Simon James Joyce · Bangkok, TH
• Prafulla C. Gupta · Pagosa Springs, US
• Ashok Kumar Reddy Eanuga · Budd Lake, US
• Manohar Sitaram Vaidya · Hyderabad, IN
• Kalyan Chakravarthy Kasturi · Hyderabad, IN
• Richa Gupta · Kanchinakote, IN
• Suresh Kumar Munnangi · Hyderabad, IN
• Varma Laxmi Jagannadha Siva Kumara Jampana · Apple Valley, US
• Prasad Naganjaneya Vara Undavalli · Hyderabad, IN
• Kondal Rao Nallajerla · Alpharetta, US
• Krishna Mohan Sistla · Hyderabad, IN
• Amba Prasad Gudipati · Hyderabad, IN
• Bhanu Murthy Nallagonda · Secunderabad, IN
• Surya Sekhar Lakshmi Velpuri · Hyderabad, IN
• Veerabhadra Rao Kalluri · Secunderabad, IN
• Radhakrishnan Subhashree · Hyderabad, IN
• Sundaram Mohan Kumar · Hyderabad, IN
• Muralidhar Goparaju · Hyderabad, IN
• Raju Wadalkar · Mangalore, IN
• Fernando Santos · Lisbon, PT
• Narendra Kumar Velagala · Secunderabad, IN
• Anil Kumar Reddy Nakkala · Hyderabad, IN
• Anjayya Chowdary Tummala · Secunderabad, IN
• Krishna Mohan Venkata Kompella · Hyderabad, IN
• Ravi Kiran Machiraju · Hyderabad, IN
• Srinivas Seetamsetty · Hyderabad, IN
• Gopal Vooradi · Secunderabad, IN
• Sesh Kumar Venkata Hara Naga Burugula · Hyderabad, IN
• Ranganatham Veluru · Hyderabad, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 29, 2001
• Grant date: Aug 4, 2015
• Expiry date: Nov 15, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W8/18
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for providing mobile commerce, electronic commerce, customer care and communication services via a plurality of networks, including receiving in a roaming network from a user device, an identification number and a request for a service, forwarding from the roaming network, to a home network, the identification number, the request for the service, and adding a service provider identification number that relates to a service provider and a cost or rate of the service, if the service is to be charged, verifying, by a convergent communication platform located on the home network, that the identification number relates to a valid user account, that the user device is authorized to receive the service and that the valid user account has sufficient value to pay for the service, providing an authorization to the service provider, if the identification number relates to the valid user account, the user device is authorized to receive the service and the valid user account has sufficient value, if the service is to be charged and charging the valid user account on a real time basis, if necessary, for providing the service, if the service is to be charged.