Systems and methods for providing alternative payment communications systems
AssigneeSiemens Information and Communication Networks, Inc.
InventorsThomas Slagle, David VanderMeiden
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Abstract
Systems and methods for providing an alternative payment scheme for telecommunications services. The systems and methods according to preferred embodiments of the present invention may include a user communications device capable of playing an electronic content clip; a communications network for transferring electronic content to and from the user communications device; and an electronic content server that stores electronic content clips and provides electronic content clips to the user communications device such that an electronic content clip must be reviewed by a user prior to the user completing an electronic communication with the user communications device.
Claims22
A system for providing an alternative payment scheme for telecommunications services comprising:
- a user communications device capable of playing an electronic content clip;
- a communications network for transferring electronic content to the user communications device;
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- an electronic content server that stores electronic content clips and provides electronic content clips to the user communications device such that an electronic content clip must be reviewed by a user prior to the user completing an electronic communication with the user communications device.
A method for providing an alternative payment scheme for telecommunications services comprising:
- providing one or more surveys to a user;
- creating a user profile based upon the information obtained from the surveys;
- selecting an electronic content clips based upon information obtained from the user surveys;
- transferring the selected electronic content clip from an electronic content server to a user communications device capable of playing the electronic content clip via a communications network;
- requiring the user to review the electronic content clip prior to the user being allowed to complete an electronic communication;
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- completing the electronic communication after the user has reviewed the electronic content clip.
A system for providing an alternative payment scheme for telecommunications services comprising:
- means for providing one or more surveys to a user;
- means for creating a user profile based upon the information obtained from the survey;
- means for selecting electronic content clips based upon information obtained from the survey;
- means for transferring the selected electronic content clips from an electronic content server to a user communications device capable of playing the electronic content clips;
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- means for completing an electronic communication after the user has reviewed at least one electronic content clip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.