System and method to facilitate purchases on mobile devices

摘要

System and method to enable and facilitate purchases through mobile communications on mobile devices, smartphones, feature phones, tablet computers, etc by allowing the user to interact with native interface and/or by eliminating the need of entering the MSISDN identifier by the user. MSISDN value is required to identify mobile subscriber and request a mobile billing transaction through carrier's infrastructure. A system comprises at least one data computing facility, which is connected to mobile carrier billing, short code and networking infrastructure and a plurality of converters to communicate and interface with a plurality of controllers for various mobile device types and platforms.

主权项

1. A method to facilitate cross-platform purchases on mobile devices, wherein the purchases are facilitated through mobile communications on the mobile devices by Mobile Network Code (MNC)/Mobile Country Code (MCC)/Mobile Subscriber Integrated Services Digital Network Number (MSISDN) detection, the method comprising
initiating a transaction by a user; sending MNC and MCC values to a converter for a coverage check; checking the MNC and MCC values with a Data Computing Facility (DCF) coverage database; confirming MNC and MCC support by the DCF to the converter; forwarding a MNC and MCC confirmation to a controller; sending encoded transaction details via SMS text message to short code using a messaging component; obtaining a MSISDN value and transaction details by short code from an incoming SMS text message and sending the MSISDN value and transaction details to the DCF; decoding the transaction details by the DCF and sending the transaction details to a carrier billing system for making a MSISDN based transaction; confirming transaction billing status by carrier billing to the DCF; requesting mobile device information and operating system information from a device controller; sending the mobile device information and operating system information via a network from the purchase user interface controller to a user interface converter of a server component; connecting the platform native interface controller to a database component; requesting a universal user interface from a universal user interface controller if a platform or operating system is not detected by the device controller or not supported by any existing native interface controllers; obtaining the respective universal user interface data and elements from the database component and sending the universal user interface data and elements to the user interface converter; and requesting the universal user interface from the user interface converter and checking if a native user interface is available for respective platform and operating system.