Automatic verification of a user
First Claim
1. A method for allowing a user to register with an Internet Service Provider (“
- ISP”
) to inspire billing of charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP to a telephone bill, the method comprising;
receiving, from a client device, a request to access services offered by or through the ISP;
in response to the request to access the services offered by or through the ISP, requesting from a user of the client device, to identify a choice of billing for charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP;
receiving, from the user, the choice of billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP;
analyzing the response to determine whether the user has requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP;
based on analyzing the response, determining that the user has requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP;
retrieving a telephone number associated with the user;
determining a number of users who have previously selected the telephone number for billing the charges incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP;
accessing a threshold that enables determination of a number of users permitted to bill charges for services to the telephone number;
determining whether the number of users exceeds the threshold;
denying user-requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP when it is determined that the number of users exceed the threshold; and
enabling user-requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP when it is determined that the number of users does not exceed the threshold.
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Accused Products
Abstract
A system and method are described for verifying a user. More specifically, a user contacts a goods or service provider and gives that provider information about himself or herself in order to register for receipt of goods or services. The provider then uses this information along with other information detected from another source, such as a network provider, to verify that the user is providing accurate information. Once the provider has determined that the information provided by the user is accurate, the user is allowed to register for certain services or purchase goods. A component of these systems and methods is to perform format and frequency of usage checks on the received data from the user and/or the network provider.
33 Citations
43 Claims
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1. A method for allowing a user to register with an Internet Service Provider (“
- ISP”
) to inspire billing of charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP to a telephone bill, the method comprising;receiving, from a client device, a request to access services offered by or through the ISP; in response to the request to access the services offered by or through the ISP, requesting from a user of the client device, to identify a choice of billing for charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; receiving, from the user, the choice of billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; analyzing the response to determine whether the user has requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; based on analyzing the response, determining that the user has requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; retrieving a telephone number associated with the user; determining a number of users who have previously selected the telephone number for billing the charges incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; accessing a threshold that enables determination of a number of users permitted to bill charges for services to the telephone number; determining whether the number of users exceeds the threshold; denying user-requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP when it is determined that the number of users exceed the threshold; and enabling user-requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP when it is determined that the number of users does not exceed the threshold. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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17. A method for allowing a user to register with an Internet Service Provider (“
- ISP”
) to inspire billing of charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP to a telephone bill, the method comprising;receiving, from a client device, a request to access services offered by or through the ISP; in response to the request to access the services offered by or through the ISP, requesting from a user of the client device, to identify a choice of billing for charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; receiving, from the user, the choice of billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; analyzing the response to determine whether the user has requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; based on analyzing the response, determining that the user has requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; retrieving a telephone number associated with the user; identifying a formatting characteristic of the telephone number; accessing format criteria that enable determination of whether the formatting characteristic of the telephone number satisfies the format criteria; comparing the formatting characteristic of the telephone number against format criteria; resolving information based on results of the comparison between the formatting characteristic and the format criteria; using the information resolved based on results of the comparison between the formatting characteristic and the format criteria as a condition precedent to enabling the user-requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to the receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; and enabling the user-requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to the receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP when the formatting characteristic satisfies the format criteria. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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33. A system for allowing a user to register with an Internet Service Provider (“
- ISP”
) to inspire billing of charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP to a telephone bill, the system comprising;means for receiving, from a client device, a request to access services offered by or through the ISP; means for requesting from a user of the client device and in response to the request to access the services offered by or through the ISP to identify a choice of billing for charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; means for receiving, from the user, the choice of billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; means for analyzing the response to determine whether the user has requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; means for determining, based on analyzing the response, that the user has requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; means for retrieving a telephone number associated with the user; means for determining a number of users who have previously selected the telephone number for billing the charges incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; means for accessing a threshold that enables determination of a number of users permitted to bill charges for services to the telephone number; means for determining whether the number of users exceeds the threshold; means for denying user-requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP when it is determined that the number of users exceed the threshold; and means for enabling user-requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP when it is determined that the number of users does not exceed the threshold.
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34. A system for allowing a user to register with an Internet Service Provider (“
- ISP”
) to inspire billing of charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP to a telephone bill, the system comprising;means for receiving, from a client device, a request to access services offered by or through the ISP; means for requesting from a user of the client device and in response to the request to access the services offered by or through the ISP to identify a choice of billing for charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; means for receiving, from the user, the choice of billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; means for analyzing the response to determine whether the user has requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; means for determining, based on analyzing the response, that the user has requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; means for retrieving a telephone number associated with the user; means for identifying a formatting characteristic of the telephone number; means for accessing format criteria that enable determination of whether the formatting characteristic of the telephone number satisfies the format criteria; means for comparing the formatting characteristic of the telephone number against format criteria; means for resolving information based on results of the comparison between the formatting characteristic and the format criteria; means for using the information resolved based on results of the comparison between the formatting characteristic and the format criteria as a condition precedent to enabling the user-requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to the receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP; and means for enabling the user-requested telephone billing for the charges that are incurred incident to the receipt of the requested services offered by or through the ISP when the formatting characteristic satisfies the format criteria.
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Specification