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US 7,343,149 B2Granted
Network support for credit card notification
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorsDavid S. Benco, Sanjeev Mahajan, Baoling S. Sheen, Sandra L. True
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Abstract
An apparatus in one example has: a network service provider; a mobile terminal operatively coupled to the network service provider; a credit card company system operatively coupled to the network service provider; and the network service provider structured such that, when the credit card company system notifies the network service provider of charges to credit cards associated with the mobile terminal, the network service provider notifies the mobile terminal of such charges.
Claims14
An apparatus, comprising:
- a network service provider;
- a mobile terminal operatively coupled to the network service provider;
- a credit card company system operatively coupled to the network service provider;
- and
- the network service provider structured such that, when the credit card company system notifies the network service provider of charges to credit cards associated with the mobile terminal, the network service provider notifies the mobile terminal of such charges, wherein the network service provider is also structured such that upon detecting a credit card charge the network service provider determines if a credit card account holder associated with the credit card charge is a charge notification service subscriber, and takes no action if the credit card account holder associate with the credit card charge is not a charge notification service subscriber, the network service provider storing credit card data regarding the charge to the credit card.
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A method, comprising:
- informing, by a charge notification service subscriber (credit curd account holder), a network service provider of at least one subscriber's credit card company and at least one subscriber's credit card number that is to be tracked;
- informing, by the network service provider, the credit card company that the credit card account holder desires to receive charge notification on a mobile terminal of the subscriber;
- detecting a credit card charge;
- determining if a credit card account holder associated with the credit card charge is a charge notification service subscriber;
- taking no action if the credit card account holder associated with the credit card charge is not a charge notification service subscriber;
- notifying, by the credit card company when the credit card account holder associated with the credit card charge is a charge notification service subscriber, the network service provider of the charge to the credit card and sending credit card data regarding the charge to the credit card to the network service provider;
- the network service provider stores credit card data regarding the charge to the credit card;
- and
- the network service provider provides the credit card data regarding the charge to the credit card account holder.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.