Method and system for reduced-latency prepaid mobile messaging
AssigneeCellco Partnership
InventorsJerry Kupsh, Xuming Chen, Ben Chen, Robert Ephraim
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Abstract
A method and system for facilitating prepaid mobile messaging. Mobile messages are forwarded to their intended one or more destinations before the debit account of the one or more prepaid mobile messaging subscribers associated with the mobile message are debited.
Claims34
A method for providing a prepaid subscriber with mobile messaging, the method including the steps of:
- receiving a mobile originated message from the prepaid subscriber at a message center;
- sending the mobile message toward its intended one or more destinations without first verifying that a prepaid mobile messaging account associated with the prepaid subscriber has an amount of funds sufficient to cover a charge for the mobile message origination;
- and
- debiting the prepaid mobile messaging account associated with the prepaid subscriber by the amount of funds sufficient to cover the charge for the sent mobile message origination.
A method for providing a prepaid subscriber with mobile messaging, the method including the steps of:
- receiving a mobile message addressed to a prepaid subscriber at a message center;
- sending the mobile message to the addressed prepaid subscriber without first verifying that a prepaid mobile messaging account associated with the addressed party of the mobile message has an amount of funds sufficient to cover a charge for the mobile message termination;
- and
- debiting the prepaid mobile messaging account associated with the addressed party of the mobile message by the amount of funds sufficient to cover the charge for the sent mobile message termination.
A system for providing prepaid mobile messaging, the system, comprising:
- one or more databases for storing account balances associated with prepaid mobile messaging subscribers;
- and
- one or more message centers for routing a mobile message, the mobile message being associated with one or more prepaid mobile messaging subscribers, the one or more message centers being programmed to reference the one or more databases to debit the account balance or balances associated with the one or more prepaid messaging mobile messaging subscribers after the one or more message centers routes the mobile message to its one or more intended destinations,
- wherein the mobile message is routed without first verifying that the account balance or balances associated with the one or more prepaid mobile messaging subscribers has an amount of funds sufficient to cover the charge for routing the mobile message.
A method for providing prepaid mobile data services, the method including the steps of:
- receiving a request to provide a mobile data service at an application server;
- sending the mobile data service to its intended recipient without first verifying that a prepaid mobile data service account associated with an addressed party of the sent mobile data service has an amount of funds sufficient to cover a charge for the mobile data service;
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- debiting the prepaid mobile data service account associated with the addressed party of the sent mobile data service by the amount of funds sufficient to cover the charge for the sent mobile data service.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.