MOBILE BILLING METHOD AND SYSTEM USING ARS

• US 20120296816A1
• Filed: 05/19/2011
• Published: 11/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NHN KCP Corp.
• Original Assignee: NHN KCP Corp.
• Inventors: KIM, Jeong Il, KIM, Yong Sung
• Application Number:
  US13/111,127
• Publication Number:
  US 20120296816A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/027 involving a payment switch or gateway
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/14 specially adapted for billing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/68 Payment of value-added services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a mobile billing method using an automatic response service (ARS) through call transfer including (a) setting a call between a franchisee server and a mobile terminal according to a request from the franchisee server, (b) receiving a request for call transfer from a billing relay server receiving the request for the call transfer from the franchisee server, performing the call transfer and transmitting an ARS announcement to the mobile terminal, (c) receiving a request for billing from the mobile terminal and requesting authentication and billing from the billing relay server, and (d) receiving a result of the authentication and billing approval from the billing relay server and performing call transfer between the mobile terminal and the franchisee server.

Claims

1. A mobile billing method using an automatic response service (ARS) through call transfer comprising:

(a) setting a call between a franchisee server and a mobile terminal according to a request from the franchisee server;

(b) receiving a request for call transfer from a billing relay server receiving the request for the call transfer from the franchisee server, performing the call transfer and transmitting an ARS announcement to the mobile terminal;

(c) receiving a request for billing from the mobile terminal and requesting authentication and billing from the billing relay server; and

(d) receiving a result of the authentication and billing approval from the billing relay server and performing call transfer between the mobile terminal and the franchisee server.

2. The mobile billing method according to claim 1, wherein step (c) comprises receiving an inherent identification number input using the mobile terminal.

3. The mobile billing method according to claim 1, wherein step (c) comprises receiving a password input using the mobile terminal.

6. A mobile billing system using an ARS through call transfer comprising an ARS server to perform a process according to claim 1 and a billing relay server to perform a process according to claim 4.

4. A mobile billing method using an ARS through call transfer comprising:

(a) receiving a request for call transfer between a mobile terminal and an ARS server from a franchisee server and requesting call transfer from the ARS server;

(b) receiving a request for authentication and billing from the ARS server having received a request for billing from the mobile terminal and requesting the authentication and the billing from a billing server; and

(c) receiving a result of the authentication and billing approval from the billing server and transmitting the result of the authentication and billing approval to the franchisee server and the ARS server.

5. The mobile billing method according to claim 4, wherein step (c) comprises requesting call transfer between the mobile terminal and the franchisee server from the ARS server.