Patent ID: 9066222
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: G06Q,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer-based method of processing repeat payments, comprising: receiving, with a mobile billing operator sever from a merchant server, a phone number of a user mobile phone; registering, with the mobile billing operator server, the phone number for repeat payments with a mobile billing scheduling assistant of the mobile billing operator server; executing, with the mobile billing scheduling assistant, at least one default payment cycle that includes causing a charge to be entered against the phone number in an account database of a carrier server, receiving a payment from the carrier server at the mobile billing operator server, the mobile billing operator server keeping a portion of the payment received from the carrier server and making a payment from the mobile billing operator server to the merchant server, the payment to the merchant server being for the payment received from the carrier server minus the portion kept by the mobile billing operator server; transmitting, with the mobile billing operator server, a text to the user mobile phone at the phone number with a switch-over option after the default billing cycle, the switch-over option including a link that is selectable by a user of the user mobile phone to cause the user mobile phone to open a browser window, request a switch-over page from the merchant server, receive the switch-over page from the merchant server and open the switch-over page that allows the user to enter credit card information for purposes of executing at least one modified billing cycle instead of the default billing cycle wherein the modified billing cycle includes charging a credit card having the credit card details at a credit card institution server other than the carrier server; receiving, at the mobile billing operator server, a cancel notification from the merchant server when the merchant server receives the credit card information; and cancelling, with the mobile billing operator server, the default payment cycle on the mobile billing scheduling assistant in response to the cancel notification.