Patent ID: 7437331
Filing Date: 2008-10-14
Classification: G06Q,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for effecting a purchase requested by a customer from a vendor via the Internet and billing for the purchase, said method comprising the steps of: (a) transmitting, by the customer, a purchase request and mobile subscriber identification data representing a mobile subscriber identification number of the customer to the vendor via a mobile radio network; (b) forwarding, by the vendor, the mobile subscriber identification data to a security device; (c) transmitting, by the security device, at least the mobile subscriber identification number related to the mobile subscriber identification data received from the vendor to the mobile radio network; (d) in response to receiving the at least the mobile subscriber identification number from the security device, generating, by the mobile radio network, a transaction number for the purchase and transmitting the transaction number from the mobile radio network to the customer and the security device; (e) forwarding, by the customer, the transaction number to the vendor; (f) checking, by the security device or the vendor, whether the transaction number forwarded to the vendor by the customer in said step (e) is valid by determining whether the transaction number forwarded to the vendor by the customer matches the transaction number transmitted to the security device by the mobile radio network in said step (d); and (g) initiating billing of the purchase if the transaction number checked in said step (f) is valid.