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- Patent Title: Systems and methods to facilitate repeated purchases
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Application No.: US13949074Application Date: 2013-07-23
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Publication No.: US08774757B2Publication Date: 2014-07-08
- Inventor: Kurt Davis , Jang Kim , David Yoo , James Goodsall
- Applicant: Boku, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: Boku, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Boku, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agent Stephen M. De Klerk
- Main IPC: H04M11/00
- IPC: H04M11/00

Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided to facilitate repeated purchase and payment transactions. In one aspect, a system includes an interchange and a data storage facility configured to store payment transaction records associated with phone numbers. The interchange includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of different controllers of mobile communications. The converters are configured to communicate with the controllers in different formats and to communicate with the common format processor in a common format. The common format processor is configured to identify a prior payment transaction associated with a phone number in response to a message from a mobile phone having the phone number, communicate with a merchant to repeat a purchase according to the prior payment transaction, and transmit via one of the converters premium messages to the mobile phone to collect funds for a payment to repeat the purchase.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130311377A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE REPEATED PURCHASES Public/Granted day:2013-11-21
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