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US 2014/0057594 A1Published application
Cellular Airtime Management
AssigneeVodafone IP Licensing Limited
InventorsPeter CORNFORTH, Jason DOWNING, Gregory REEVE
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Abstract
Method and system for crediting cellular accounts with airtime comprising exchanging funds within a mobile telephone based money transfer system account for airtime. Crediting a plurality of cellular accounts with the airtime.
Claims23
A method of crediting cellular accounts with airtime comprising the steps of:
- allocating portions of a total amount of airtime to be distributed amongst a plurality of cellular accounts;
- exchanging funds within a mobile telephone based money transfer system account for the total amount of airtime;
- and
- crediting the plurality of cellular accounts with the allocated portions of airtime.
1 more element
The system of claim 13, wherein the plurality of cellular accounts are credited substantially simultaneously.
A system for crediting cellular accounts with airtime comprising logic configured to:
- receive an instruction to credit a plurality of cellular accounts with portions of a total amount of airtime;
- exchange funds within a mobile telephone based money transfer system account for the total amount of airtime;
- and
- credit the plurality of cellular accounts with the portions of airtime.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.