Transaction processing platform for facilitating electronic distribution of plural prepaid services

A method for processing transactions involving prepaid services performed by a transaction processing platform having a processor and computer program code stored on a non-transitory computer readable memory which, when executed by the processor, causes the transaction processing platform to perform the method comprising:

• sending, by a platform front-end, wherein the platform front-end comprises a load-balancing switch which apportions service request messages received via both a private network and the Internet, a transaction request comprising a first service request message;
• sending, by the platform front-end, the transaction request comprising a second service request message;
• receiving, at a conduit interface of the transaction processing platform, wherein the conduit interface comprises distributed servers, the transaction request comprising the first service request message;
• receiving, at the conduit interface of the transaction processing platform, the transaction request comprising the second service request message;
• generating, by the conduit interface of the transaction processing platform, in response to said first service request message, a first transaction request for a first type of prepaid service;
• generating, by the conduit interface of the transaction processing platform, in response to said second service request message, a second transaction request for a second type of prepaid service;
• routing, by a supply interface arrangement of the transaction processing platform, the first transaction request to a first supply interface of the supply interface arrangement and associated with a first type of prepaid service;
• routing, by a supply interface arrangement of the transaction processing platform, the second transaction request to a second supply interface of the supply interface arrangement and associated with a second type of prepaid service;
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• providing, by the supply interface arrangement of the transaction processing platform, based upon supplier activation information received through the first supply interface, a first service activation response.

A system for providing prepaid services comprising:

• a transaction processing platform for processing prepaid services comprising one or more processors and software programming stored on one or more non-transitory computer readable memory;
• a conduit interface, comprising a plurality of distributed servers and software programming stored on the one or more non-transitory computer readable memory and executed by the one or more processors, through which a first service request message generated by a first client terminal and a second service request message generated by a second client terminal are received by the transaction processing platform from the first client terminal and the second client terminal and utilized to generate a first transaction request for a first type of prepaid service and a second transaction request for a second type of prepaid service;
• a platform front-end, comprising a load-balancing switch, wherein the load-balancing switch apportions service request messages, received via both a private network and the Internet, among the distributed servers;
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• a supply interface arrangement, comprising software programming stored on the non-transitory computer readable memory and executed by the one or more processors, operatively coupled to the conduit interface, configured to route the first transaction request through a first supply interface of the supply interface arrangement associated with the first type of prepaid service and to route the second transaction request through a second supply interface of the supply interface arrangement associated with the second type of prepaid service,
• wherein supplier response information received through the first supply interface and the second supply interface is provided to the conduit interface.

A computer-implemented method for processing transactions involving prepaid services performed by a transaction processing platform having a processor and computer program code stored on a non-transitory computer readable memory which, when executed by the processor, causes the transaction processing platform to perform the method comprising:

• sending, by a platform front-end, wherein the platform front-end comprises a load-balancing switch which apportions service request messages received via both a private network and the Internet, a first service request message generated by a first client terminal and a second service request message generated by a second client terminal;
• receiving, through a conduit interface of the transaction processing platform, wherein the conduit interface comprises distributed servers, the first service request message and the second service request message;
• generating, by the conduit interface of the transaction processing platform, in response to said first service request message received through said conduit interface, a first transaction request for a first type of prepaid service;
• generating, by the conduit interface of the transaction processing platform, in response to said second service request message received through said conduit interface, a second transaction request for a second type of prepaid service;
• routing, by a supply interface arrangement of the transaction processing platform, the first transaction request to a first supply interface of the supply interface arrangement and associated with the first type of prepaid service;
• routing, by a supply interface arrangement of the transaction processing platform, the second transaction request to a second supply interface of the supply interface arrangement and associated with the second type of prepaid service;
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• providing, by the supply interface arrangement of the transaction processing platform, based upon supplier activation information received through the first supply interface, a first service activation response to the conduit interface.