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AssigneeFortumo Ou
InventorsTauno TALIMAA, Madis PINK, Tanel KOSK, Gerri KODRES, Andrei DEMENTJEV
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System and method to facilitate purchases through mobile communications on various mobile devices by reducing the number of steps it takes the user to complete the purchase with mobile in-application payments. The payment confirmation is provided using platform's native user experience interface. User is informed about the price of the purchase, respective terms of use and the choice of confirming or cancelling the purchase. Once the purchase is confirmed by pressing the payment confirmation button, respective controller handles the process of performing the payment confirmation request via SMS text message. Confirmation request is done in the background without the need of any involvement of the user. After the payment is confirmed by mobile carrier a confirmation dialogue is displayed to user using native platform interface.
A system to facilitate purchases on mobile devices via automatic payment confirmation comprises data computing facility, mobile carrier billing infrastructure, plurality of converters, plurality of controllers, device controller, messaging component of the device, wherein data computing facility is connected to mobile carrier billing infrastructure, respective controller integrates with platform's native interface, converter is configured to communicate with a corresponding device controller for mobile devices and platforms through an internet connection, respective payment confirmation request data is served to respective converter by the computing facility, payment confirmation request via opt-in is performed by respective controller through interrogating with messaging component, each controller is designed to integrate with respective device's platform interface based on device's operating system.
A method to facilitate purchases on mobile devices via automatic payment confirmation comprises following steps:
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