Cellular telephone as an authenticated transaction controller

The invention includes arrangements for providing credit to customers via cellular telephones. In one embodiment, a customer seeking credit for the purchase of goods and services from a merchant (at 30) activates his or her cellular telephone (10), authenticates the cellular telephone with his cellu...

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1. Verfasser:	WARING PARTRIDGE III, B
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre ; ger
Schlagworte:	CALCULATING CHECKING-DEVICES COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS COMPUTING COUNTING DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE ELECTRICITY PHYSICS PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
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Zusammenfassung:	The invention includes arrangements for providing credit to customers via cellular telephones. In one embodiment, a customer seeking credit for the purchase of goods and services from a merchant (at 30) activates his or her cellular telephone (10), authenticates the cellular telephone with his cellular service provider's base station (20), and proceeds to establish a connection (to 40) to obtain credit. Credit is obtained by sending a unique sequence to the cellular service provider that is different from the normal sequence of numbers that correspond to a telephone number of the called party. That sequence may include a merchant ID code and the amount of credit desired.