Patent ID: 8346677
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for conducting mobile commerce comprising: transmitting in a first language a request message for merchant website information from a mobile device; receiving the request message in the first language at a platform and identifying the first language; translating the request message at the platform from the first language to a second language that is recognizable by a merchant website; communicating the translated request message in the second language from the platform to the merchant website; receiving at the platform the requested merchant website information from the merchant website in the second language; recognizing the second language at the platform; parsing the requested merchant website information in the second language into translatable pieces; translating the translatable pieces of the requested website information into the first language so as to form a reply message containing the requested merchant website information in the first language; and transmitting the reply message to the mobile device; transmitting a purchase request in response to the reply message in a first language to the platform; receiving the purchase request in the first language at a platform and identifying the first language; translating the purchase request at the platform from the first language to a second language that is recognizable by the merchant website; communicating the translated purchase request in the second language from the platform to the merchant website; receiving at the platform a purchase request response from the merchant website in the second language, wherein the purchase request response includes a payment authorization request; forwarding the purchase request response in the second language from the platform to a payment authorization system for a payment authorization response; receiving at the platform, the purchase request response, including the payment authorization response, in the second language from the payment authorization system; parsing the purchase request response in the second language into translatable pieces; translating the translatable pieces of the purchase request response into the first language so as to form a purchase request response in the first language; and transmitting the purchase request response in the first language to the mobile device.