Patent ID: 8566243

Claim:
A Mobile Service Provider network configured to provide its users with a secure Electronic Mail (“E-mail”) billing statement, the network comprising: a first server configured to (i) receive, from a user, an enrollment request for a secure E-mail billing statement, the request including an E-mail address and account information and (ii) update the account of the user to reflect that the user has requested the secure E-mail billing statement; a second server configured to (i) receive the request from the first server; (ii) generate an identifier for the request; (iii) store the request along with the identifier in a table; and (iv) validate the E-mail address of the user by sending a validation E-mail to the provided E-mail address, the validation E-mail including the identifier; and a third server configured to authenticate an association between the user and the E-mail address to which the validation E-mail was sent by the second server by performing functions to (i) receive a response of the user to the validation E-mail sent by the second server, the response including the identifier and a password requested by the third server; (ii) validate the identifier via the second server; (iii) validate the password via the first server; and (iv) upon successful validations of the password and identifier, forward a successful authentication notice of the association between the user and the E-mail address to the first server, wherein: the first server, upon receiving the successful authentication notice of the association between the user and the E-mail address, is further configured to (iii) update the account of the user to reflect that the user has enrolled in the secure E-mail billing statement and (iv) request the second server to inform the user of the successful enrollment in the secure E-mail billing statement.