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7353210 Electronic means of payment with individually settable security features for the internet or for mobile networks  
Electronic means of payment require specific procedures concerning the use thereof as well as set security features. Disclosed is a means of payment allowing the user to add individual security...
RE39376 System for accessing amenities through a public telephone network  
An amenity accessing system is provided that includes an access telephone ( 10 ) with a plurality of access keys. The telephone includes a line powered card reader ( 62 ) that interfaces with a CPU...
7096003 Transaction security apparatus  
An apparatus including a memory device for storing a limitation or restriction on an account use received via the Internet and/or World Wide Web and a processing device for determining whether a...
6956932 Method and system of controlling promotional call-ins  
A method and system for receiving, logging, answering, controlling, and forwarding calls from radio or other promoter call-in contestants, wherein said method provides an efficient means for...
6822422 Battery recycle system  
A battery recycle system includes a vending machine for vending secondary batteries. The vending machine has therein a telecommunication terminal connected to a server provided in a secondary...
6529725 Transaction security apparatus and method  
A transaction security apparatus and method including an input device for inputting transaction data, a processing device for processing the transaction data and for generating a first signal...
6404871 Termination number screening  
Terminating number screening to block portable billing products from terminating to a designated high fraud domestic or international terminating numbers. When a call is placed and it is billed to...
6335971 Country to country call intercept process  
A call intercept process (CIP) for calling card calls originating from an international country and terminating at an international high fraud country. When a call is placed via a calling card and...
6307922 Telephone transaction processing as a part of a call transport  
A telephone transaction processing system is disclosed. Processing of telephone transactions, such as credit card transactions, financial account debiting, or information collection, is facilitated...
6295344 Telephone travel card system under the control of its customers  
A telephone system for travel card users where the users may program a switch processor so that it completes, re-routes, or refuses to complete calls as predetermined by the customer. Data is...
6233316 Voice enhanced phone card  
A voice enhanced phone card which allows a caller to place a call by voice activated dialing only when the caller desires it is presented. A caller places a call using a standard calling card...
6169791 System and method for least cost call routing  
A least cost call routing system operates in conjunction with one or more telephones disposed in a location to provide least cost telephone call routing using a selected one of a number of...
6169787 Telephone transaction support system  
A telephone transaction support system includes a transaction register unit for registering, in a database, contents of a transaction requested by a customer over a telephone, and a deciding unit...
5991372 Method and apparatus for facilitating financial transactions within a communications system  
A method and apparatus in a communications system for facilitating a financial transaction between two parties within the communications system. The method of the present invention is implemented...
5974119 Credit status checking system for transaction processing system and checking method therefor  
A credit status checking system for examining credit status of a customer immediately and easily, by utilizing a stored customer telephone number through a computer system performing the examining...
5943320 Method of charging for the use of a telecommunications service, as well as a switching system, a service control point, and a network management facility  
The invention relates to a method for charging for the use of a telecommunication service, as well as to a switching system, a service control point and a network management facility. A service...
5915007 Method and system for using a frequent shopper card as a phone calling card  
A method and system for using a frequent shopper card as a phone calling card including (a) issuing a transfer certificate with a predetermined phone time and having a first personal identification...
5912954 Method and system for providing billing information in a telecommunications network  
A method for generating billing information for a call in a telecommunications network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a call initiation stimulus is received at a service switching system (112)....
5898766 Method for enabling a transaction between a terminal user and a server  
The invention relates to performing a transaction between a user and a server. It relates to a method that comprises setting up a call (A3-A5) between a user and the server via an exchange, and...
5812641 Method of renting portable-type communicating devices  
A method of renting portable telephones is disclosed. When a portable telephone 5 is rented from a first rental shop 4-1 and returned to a second rental shop 4-2 different from the first, the...
5745554 Systems for requesting services using card reading terminals  
A method for a service provider to contact a merchant or a customer (requester) is provided. A special card number (e.g., credit card number, debit card number and ATM card number) to a requester....
5615251 Real-time reconfiguration  
A system and method for reconfiguring a validation system in real time is presented. An operator console receives a call having one or more pieces of information that are to be validated. The...
5577109 Pre-paid card system and method  
A pre-paid card system enables customers to make purchases using an authorized card. The system includes four main functional components: a plurality of cards, a host computer, a plurality of...
5563933 Method and apparatus for facilitating the completing of telephone regional toll-free calls from outside the region  
Calls to geographically limited toll-free telephone numbers, when originated from outside the predefined geographic region, are completed, but not at the called party's expense, by a) indicating to...
5555290 Long distance telephone switching system with enhanced subscriber services  
A long distance telephone switching system is adapted to provide various enhanced subscriber services, such as an audio news and information service, conference calling, voice messaging, message...
5539825 Electronic cashless transaction system  
A key control method is for use in an electronic cashless transaction system including at least a bank center, a store transaction terminal and an IC card being used as an electronic cashless...
5526409 Adaptive communication system within a transaction card network  
The present invention is a point-of-presence device installed in a merchant establishment as an interface between a retail information system and a transaction card authorization network. By using...
5521966 Method and system for mediating transactions that use portable smart cards  
The invention provides a method and system for employing a communication system to mediate a transaction involving one of a plurality of files and programs corresponding to a plurality of...
5510777 Method for secure access control  
A requester making a request for access to a destination is prompted to supply additional authentication information, beyond that which may be supplied by the requester in an attempt to meet a...
5504808 Secured disposable debit card calling system and method  
A card and associated system and method provides disposable but secure telephone debit cards. Identifying indicia are disposed on the telephone debit card surface, and temporarily covered so that...
5500890 Point-of-sale system using multi-threaded transactions and interleaved file transfer  
A dial-up asynchronous communication protocol allowing multiple POS terminals to efficiently multi-thread transactions to a host computer and to interleave mail messages and file transfers while...
5490251 Method and apparatus for transmitting data over a signalling channel in a digital telecommunications network  
A communication system for exchanging information between a remote terminal and a host terminal over a signalling channel of an ISDN network which does not need to establish communication over...
5487107 Method and apparatus for processing telephone calls charged to credit cards  
When a telephone caller charges a call to a commercial credit card an announcement which includes the name of the credit card issuer is supplied to the caller after the validation of the credit...
5485507 Integrated commissary system  
A commissary system for receiving and processing commissary orders using a premise-based telephone system of an institution such as a jail or correctional facility without accessing a PSTN....
5481600 Instant calling card provisioning system  
Calling card subscribers are allowed to charge telephone calls to calling card numbers before the calling card issuer's billing system is updated to include account records containing...
5475740 System for accessing and paying for amenities using a telephone  
System for enabling user access to and payment for amenities using a telephone is disclosed, The system includes a telephone for entering billing and amenity identification information connected to...
5333181 System for accessing amenities through a public telephone network  
An amenity accessing system is provided that includes an access telephone (10) with a plurality of access keys. The telephone includes a line powered card reader (62) that interfaces with a CPU...
5329589 Mediation of transactions by a communications system  
Methods and apparatus for employing a communications system with actively connects communicating entities to mediate transactions. Disclosed are general methods and apparatus for mediating...
5327484 Calling system for short duration data transactions  
A system and a method for completing over a communication switching system a series of short duration calls directed to a common destination and initiated from a plurality of sources connected to a...
5325421 Voice directed communications system platform  
A facility is provided for allowing a caller to place a telephone call by merely uttering a label identifying a desired called destination and to charge the telephone call to a particular billing...
5226073 Telephone network credit card calling apparatus and method of telephone network operation with credit card companies  
Apparatus for enabling a telephone network to establish connections between calling and called telephones in accordance with called telephone numbers identified with ones of a plurality of calling...
5181238 Authenticated communications access service  
This invention relates to arrangements for providing pre-authenticated access from a caller to a service provider. The caller dials the number of the service provider and subsequently enters a...
5163086 Telephone network credit card calling apparatus and method of operation to determine validation and fraudulent use of credit cards in placing telephone calls  
Apparatus and method of controlling a telephone network to establish connections between calling and called telephone stations in accordance with dialed telephone numbers identified by ones of a...
5136633 International authorization system  
A network system is disclosed for handling telephone requests for authorizing financial transactions between a merchant (10) and the issuer (20) of the transaction card presented for the...
5068891 Credit control system for long distance telephone services  
The amount of credit available to a telephone travel card holder is determined immediately at the completion of a long distance call and the travel card is invalidated if no credit remains. Capture...
5023904 Direct telephone dial ordering service  
A direct telephone dialing ordering system and method is disclosed wherein a calling customer can order products and/or services from a given vendor without voice interchange. The system operates...
5016270 Expanded telephone data organization system  
A considerable memory stores data on individual automobiles, addressed by alphanumeric-code license designations. Access to the memory also is provided from individual telephone terminals through...
5003584 Method and apparatus for the billing of value-added communication calls  
A call billing method and apparatus specifies, on a call-by-call basis, the calling charges incurred by a caller during a call to a sponsor-provided value-added service. The method provides the...
4961109 Chargeable program receiving limit setting system in two-way cable television system  
A CATV television system in which a subscriber can only charge a maximum number of events before the central facility polls the subscriber's terminal unit for charged events. The subscriber's...
4939771 Attendant-controlled call message delivery system and method  
A Call Message Delivery system (CDS) enables an attendant to control the delivery of a recorded call message from a caller to a specified party at a called station. The CDS alerts the attendant at...
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