Silent SMS triggering for mobile billing at a merchant server

US9269101B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Boku, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Jang Kim · San Francisco, US
• Yanting Li · Sunnyvale, US
• Daniel Keegan Flanigan · San Francisco, US
• Wesley D. Mateo · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 16, 2013
• Grant date: Feb 23, 2016
• Expiry date: Mar 8, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/04
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The invention provides a method of processing transaction with at least one merchant computer, including receiving, with the at least one merchant computer, a confirmation of a purchase from a consumer device, triggering, with the at least one merchant computer, in response to the confirmation of the purchase, a silent text message to the consumer device, wherein a purchasing unit on the consumer device responds to the silent text message by sending a text message with a unique transaction ID to a short code of a billing server via a carrier server to the billing server and receiving, with the at least one merchant computer, in response to triggering the silent text message, a callback notification from the billing server with the transaction ID.