Patent ID: 9641994
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: detecting, by a user equipment, a tap of the user equipment on or near a bearer tag, wherein the user equipment is a mobile communication device; in response to the tap, initiating, by the user equipment, a determination of service information, related to one or more services offered by one or more service providers independent from a mobile communication service provider that has a billing arrangement with a user account associated with the user equipment, from the bearer tag, wherein the service information includes one or more costs related to the one or more services; generating, by the user equipment, one or more service management requests to manage the one or more services according to the service information; and initiating, by the user equipment, a transmission of the one or more service management requests via a mobile communication network to a services platform communicating with the mobile communication service provider for managing the one or more services and the one or more costs according to the billing arrangement, wherein the one or more service management requests of the one or more services comprises a validation of the one or more service management requests based, at least in part, on: