Methods and systems for top-up
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Abstract
Methods and systems for top-up are provided. A representative top-up system includes an interface module that receives and transmits a phone number associated with a phone user's account; and a top-up gateway that receives and transmits the phone number from the interface module and requests for a telephone service company associated with the phone number to a home location register (HLR) look up service. 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.
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A top-up system comprising:
- a user interface that receives a user input and transmits the user input that includes a recipient phone number associated with a phone user's account;
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- a top-up gateway that receives and transmits the phone number from the user interface and requests for a telephone service company associated with the phone number to a home location register (HLR) look up service, wherein the HLR look up service receives the phone number from the top-up gateway and the request for the telephone service company associated with the phone number,
- wherein the HLR look up service determines the telephone service company associated with the 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 phone number of the received user input and the determined telephone service company from the HLR look up service.
A top-up application that is stored in a non-transitory computer-readable storage memory and has instructions that are executed by a processing device, the instructions including the following logics:
- receive a user input and transmit the user input that includes a phone number associated with a phone user's account;
- request for a telephone service company associated with the phone number from a home location register (HLR) look up service;
- receive information related to the requested telephone service company associated with the phone number from the HLR look up service;
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- top-up phone minutes and/or balance of money of the phone user's account associated with the phone number based on the phone number of the received user input, and the received telephone service company received from the HLR look up service.
A computing device comprising:
- a processing device;
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- memory storing a top-up application which has instructions that are executed by the processing device, the instructions including the following logics:
- receive a user input and transmit the user input that includes a phone number associated with a phone user's account,
- request for a telephone service company associated with the phone number from a home location register (HLR) look up service, receive information related to the requested telephone service company associated with the phone number from the HLR look up service, and
- top up phone minutes and/or balance of money of the phone user's account associated with the phone number based on the phone number of the user input, and the received telephone service company from the HRL look up service.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.