Patent ID: 8346601

Claim:
A system for processing promotion savings comprising: a promotional system in communication with one or more marketers, one or more operators, and one or more consumer devices via a communication network, the promotion system including: a promotions database for storing a plurality of promotional codes, each of the plurality of promotional codes being associated with at least one marketer and a promotional value; an interface for receiving discount request messages from the one or more consumer devices via the communications network, the discount request messages including at least one of the plurality of promotional codes; and a messaging platform for identifying a promotional code within a received discount request message, authenticating the promotional code by reference to the promotions database, identifying an operator associated with an account designated by a consumer that transmitted the discount request; and determining a promotional value associated with the promotional code, wherein the messaging platform is further configured to transmit to the identified operator a transaction message including information regarding the origin of the transmitted discount request message and the determined promotional value, whereby, after receiving the transaction message, the identified operator applies the determined promotional value to an operator bill associated with the consumer-designated account.