Patent ID: 6160874
Filing Date: 2000-12-12
Classification: G06Q,G07F,H04M

Abstract:
A method for billing a customer credit card account, comprising the steps of:(a) receiving by a validation gateway a validation request message containing transaction data from a caller interaction processor;(b) converting said validation request message from a client server protocol to a packet switching network protocol;(c) sending a card request message from said validation gateway to a financial processor for authorization to charge to said customer credit card account;(d) receiving by said validation gateway a card reply message from said financial processor;(e) converting from said packet switching network protocol to said client server protocol;(f) sending a validation response message from said validation gateway to said caller interaction processor;(g) writing by said validation gateway a billing data record; and(h) sending said billing data record from said validation gateway to a network information distribution service database server, including sending by a validation module of a validation computer program on said validation gateway a billing data record write request to a non-blocking application modules, sending by said non-blocking application module said billing data record write request to a client process module, sending by said client process module a billing data record write request to a billing data record service, sending by said billing data record service a billing data record write response to a demultiplex process module, sending by said demultiplex process module a billing data record write response to said client process, sending by said client process module a billing data record write response to said non-blocking application module, and sending by said non-blocking application module a billing data record write response to said validation module.