Cellular telephone as an authenticated transaction controller

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1994-09-22

1997-03-04

Bost, Dwayne D.

Telephonic communications

Having light wave or ultrasonic link for speech or paging...

Including fiber optic link within telephone network

379 91, 379 59, H04Q 720

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056087780

ABSTRACT:
An arrangement to provide credit to customers via cellular telephones. In one embodiment, a customer seeking credit for the purchase of goods and services from a merchant activates his or her cellular telephone, authenticates the cellular telephone with his cellular service provider's base station, and proceeds to establish a connection to obtain credit. Credit is obtained by sending unique sequence to the cellular service provider that is different from the normal sequence of numbers that correspond to a telephone number of the called party. That sequence may include a merchant ID code and the amount of credit desired.

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