Mobile transactions
AssigneeVodafone IP Licensing Limited
InventorsGregory Reeve, Peter Cornforth, Jason Downing
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Abstract
A method for analysing mobile handset based transactions between sender handsets and receiver handsets comprising the steps of: identifying locations of a sender handset and a receiver handset for each transaction using mobile base station information; determine a geographical distribution of mobile handset based transactions based on the identified locations; and identifying anomalies by comparing the determined geographical distribution with an expected geographical distribution.
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A method for analyzing mobile handset based transactions between sender handsets and receiver handsets, the method comprising:
- identifying locations of a sender handset and a receiver handset for each transaction using mobile base station information;
- determining a geographical distribution of mobile handset based transactions based on the identified locations;
- and
- identifying anomalies by comparing the determined geographical distribution with an expected geographical distribution.
A mobile handset transaction system comprising:
- a processor configured to execute transactions between sender handsets and receiver handsets;
- and
- a server configured to:
- identify locations of a sender handset and a receiver handset for each transaction using mobile base station information,
- determine a geographical distribution of mobile handset based transactions based on the identified locations, and
- identify anomalies by comparing the determined geographical distribution with an expected geographical distribution.
A method for crediting a user handset account in a mobile transaction processing system comprising:
- receiving a request from an outlet handset to credit the user's account;
- determining the location of the outlet handset;
- determining the location of the user handset;
- comparing the location of the outlet handset with the location of the user handset;
- and
- rejecting the request if the locations are different or substantially different.
A method of validating a mobile transaction comprising:
- receiving a request from a user handset to initiate a mobile transaction;
- capturing a photograph of the user with the user handset;
- comparing the captured photograph with a pre-stored photograph of the user;
- and
- rejecting the transaction if the captured photograph and the pre-stored photograph are not of the same person.
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