Point of sale electronic fundraising

• US 10,296,951 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2013
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: @PAY IP Holdings LLC
• Original Assignee: @PAY IP Holdings LLC
• Inventors: Killoran, Jr., John P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Misiaszek, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/826,800
• Publication Number:
  US 20140025599A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,259 Days
• Field of Search: 705 261- 272
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/027 involving a payment switch or gateway
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/325 using wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3255 using mobile network messaging services for payment, e.g. SMS
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/382 insuring higher security of transaction
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

An e-fundraizing system includes a mobile device and a server. The mobile device produces, or is configured to respond to, an indicator of one or more specific donation amounts. The mobile device sends a first message to the server in response to the indicator. The mobile device receives a second message in response to the sent first message. The mobile device receives a user input based on the received second message. The mobile device sends a third message to a server in response to the user input. A user of the mobile device donates a specific amount based on the sent third message.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a transceiver at a mobile device, a solicitation for a donation with a UUID of a donation amount from a Point of Event Terminal;

generating, by a transceiver at a mobile device, a donation indication, the donation indication arising by selecting a link including the UUID associated with the donation amount that initiates a first message;

in response to the indicator, sending by the mobile device, a first Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) message to the point of event terminal, the first SMTP message including the associated UUID of the donation, the first SMTP message including the phone number, an email address, a MAC address, or other identifier of the mobile device and an identifier associated with the donation;

in response to the first SMTP message, receiving by the mobile device, a second SMTP message requesting confirmation of the donation from the point of event terminal, the second message including a destination address field that indicates an email address of a user and a body field including a mailto link;

receiving by the mobile device in response to the received second SMTP message, a user input, confirming the donation, the user input initiating the mailto link of the second message to generate a third SMTP message; and

sending by the mobile device the third SMTP message to a point of event server confirming the donation indication, whereby the point of sale server sends identification information to an e-commerce system to obtain payment authentication, the identification information comprising at least one of the phone number, an email address, or a MAC address of the mobile device and an identifier associated with the donation, wherein a database of the point of sale server stores financial information of the user, wherein the point of sale server is configured to complete a payment for the donation amount from the stored financial information when the point of sale server receives the third SMTP message.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the donation indication is input by a user of the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the donation indication is generated by a user by replying to the solicitation.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving of the user input is by a user selecting a button input embedded in the third SMTP message.

5. A mobile device comprising:

a transceiver configured to receive a solicitation for a donation with an UUID of a donation amount from a point of event terminal;

a processor configured to generate a donation indication, the donation indication arising by selection of a mailto link including the UUID associated with the donation amount that initiates a first Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) message;

the processor is further configured to send the first SMTP message to the point of event terminal, the first SMTP message including the associated UUID of the donation, wherein the first message includes the phone number, an email address, a MAC address, or other identifier of the mobile device and an identifier associated with the donation;

the processor is further configured, in response to the first SMTP message, to receive a second SMTP message requesting confirmation of the donation from the point of event terminal, wherein the second SMTP message includes a destination address field that indicates an email address of a user and a body field with a mailto link;

the processor is further configured to receive a user initiating the mailto link of the second message to generate a third SMTP message;

the processor is further configured to send the third SMTP message to a point of sale server in response to the received user input, the point of sale server sending a communication to an e-commerce system to obtain payment authentication wherein the communication is a phone number, an email address, or a MAC address of the mobile device, and an identifier associated with the donation, a database of the ecommerce system server stores financial information of the user, and wherein the point of sale server is configured to complete a payment for the donation from the stored financial information when the point of sale server receives the third SMTP message, in response to the received user input;

wherein a user of the mobile device confirms the donation based on the sent third SMTP message.

6. The mobile device of claim 5, wherein the sent first, second and third SMTP messages are sent using a transceiver.

7. The mobile device of claim 5, wherein the donation indication is input by the user of the mobile device.

8. The mobile device of claim 5, wherein the donation indication is generated by replying to the solicitation.

9. The mobile device of claim 5, wherein the receiving of a user input is by a button input embedded in the third SMTP message.

10. A server comprising:

a processor configured to receive a first SMTP message from a mobile device and determine a donation associated with the first SMTP message, the first SMTP message comprising an identifier associated with the donation and the phone number, an email address, a MAC address, or other identifier of the mobile device; and

the processor is further configured to send a second SMTP message to the mobile device to request confirmation of the donation, the second SMTP message including a mailto link that initiates the generation of an SMTP message to confirm the donation.

11. The server of claim 10, further comprising:

the processor is further configured to receive a third SMTP message from the mobile device in response to the second SMTP message, the third SMTP message confirming the donation; and

the processor is further configured to complete the transaction based on the third SMTP message, the processor sending a communication to an e-commerce system to obtain payment authentication, the communication comprising and an identifier associated with the donation and at least one of a phone number, an email address or a MAC address of the mobile device;

wherein the processor is further configured to store financial information of the user in a database, and complete a payment for the donation from the stored financial information when the processor receives the third SMTP message.

12. The server of claim 10, wherein the processor comprises a plurality of processors.

13. The server of claim 10, wherein the sent second SMTP message includes a button for execution by a user of the mobile device.

14. A server comprising:

a processor configured to receive a first message from a mobile device and determine a donation associated with the first message;

the processor configured to process the donation; and

the processor is further configured to send a second message to the mobile device to confirm that donation, the second message including a mailto link that initiates the generation of a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) message to confirm the donation.

15. A server comprising:

a processor configured to generate a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) donation solicitation message and send the SMTP donation solicitation message to a mobile device;

the processor configured to receive an SMTP response message from a mobile device generated from a mailto link included in the SMTP donation solicitation message and determine a donation associated with the SMTP response message, wherein the SMTP response message includes the phone number, an email address, a MAC address, or other identifiers of the mobile device;

the processor configured to process the donation; and

the processor is further configured to send an SMTP confirmation message to the mobile device to confirm that the donation was successfully processed, the SMTP confirmation message including a mailto link that initiates the generation of a third SMTP message to confirm the donation.