US 12,346,901 B1
Mobile communication device in-kind payment verification
Mark R. Bales, Lee's Summit, MO (US); Craig A. Lee, Overland Park, KS (US); Alberto Lorente, Kansas City, MO (US); and Lyle W. Paczkowski, Mission Hills, KS (US)
Assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC, Overland Park, KS (US)
Filed by T-Mobile Innovations LLC, Overland Park, KS (US)
Filed on Dec. 15, 2017, as Appl. No. 15/844,496.
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/40 (2012.01); G01S 5/00 (2006.01); G06Q 20/32 (2012.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01)
CPC G06Q 20/401 (2013.01) [G01S 5/0027 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3223 (2013.01); G06Q 20/325 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3278 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of performing in-kind payment from a first wireless communication service account to a different wireless communication service account, comprising:
receiving information identifying cell sites from which a second mobile communication device customarily receives wireless service, wherein a cell site from which the second mobile communication device customarily receives wireless service is a cell site from which the second mobile communication device receives wireless service greater than a threshold percentage of time;
transmitting a silent short message service (SMS) from a first mobile communication device from a first wireless communication service account with a first wireless communication service provider that is associated with the first mobile communication device to the second wireless communication subscription service account with a second wireless communication service provider that is associated with a second mobile communication device to initiate an in-kind payment from the first mobile communication device to the second mobile communication device, the silent SMS configured to trigger the second mobile communication device to launch a client application executing on the second mobile communication device responsive to receipt of the silent SMS;
sending an in-kind payment verification request message from a client application executing on the first mobile communication device to the client application executing on the second mobile communication device;
receiving an in-kind payment verification response message by the client application executing on the first mobile communication device from the client application executing on the second mobile communication device, where the response message comprises an indication of a cell site from which the second mobile communication device is receiving wireless service and an indication of completion of an in-kind payment to the second wireless communication service account;
analyzing by the client application executing on the first mobile communication device the indication of the cell site from which the second mobile communication device is receiving wireless service and the indication of completion of the in-kind payment to the second wireless communication service account;
determining that the cell site from which the second mobile communication device is receiving wireless service is among the cell sites from which the second mobile communication device customarily receives wireless service; and
verifying the in-kind payment as being authorized responsive to the cell site from which the second mobile communication device is receiving wireless service being determined as among the cell sites from which the second mobile communication device customarily receives wireless service.