Methods and systems for top-up
AssigneeMiltech Platform, Inc.
InventorDat The Lu
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Abstract
Methods and systems for top-up are provided. A representative top-up system includes a top-up gateway that receives a recipient phone number associated with a phone user's account. A home location register (HLR) look up service (HLR) look up service that receives the recipient phone number from the top-up gateway determines the telephone service company associated with the recipient phone number and transmits the information related to the determined telephone service company to the top-up gateway. The top-up gateway tops up phone minutes and/or balance of money of the phone user's account associated with the phone number based on the phone number, and requested telephone service company.
Claims20
A top-up system comprising:
- a top-up gateway that receives a recipient phone number associated with a phone user's account;
- and
- a home location register (HLR) look up service (HLR) look up service that receives the recipient phone number from the top-up gateway determines the telephone service company associated with the recipient phone number and transmits the information related to the determined telephone service company to the top-up gateway,
- wherein the top-up gateway tops up phone minutes and/or balance of money of the phone user's account based on the recipient phone number, and the determined telephone service company from the HLR look up service.
A top-up application that is stored in memory and has instructions that are executed by a processing device, the instructions including the following logics:
- receive a recipient phone number associated with a phone user's account;
- determine a telephone service company associated with the recipient phone number via a home location register (HLR) look up service,
- transmit information related to the requested telephone service company associated with the phone number via the HLR look up service;
- top-up phone minutes and/or balance of money of the phone user's account associated with the recipient phone number based on the phone number, and the determined telephone service company from the HLR look up service.
A computing device comprising:
- a processing device;
- memory storing a top-up application which has instructions that are executed by the processing device, the instructions including the following logics:
- receive a recipient phone number associated with a phone user's account;
- and
- determine a telephone service company associated with the phone number via a home location register (HLR) look up service,
- transmit information related to the requested telephone service company associated with the phone number via the HLR look up service;
- top up phone minutes and/or balance of money of the phone user's account associated with the recipient phone number based on the phone number, and the determined telephone service company from the HLR look up service.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.