Communications: electrical – Continuously variable indicating – With meter reading
Patent
1995-05-31
1998-01-13
Zimmerman, Brian
Communications: electrical
Continuously variable indicating
With meter reading
34082531, 34082533, 34082535, 379 91, 379144, H04Q 100
Patent
active
057084220
ABSTRACT:
An automated method for alerting a customer that a transaction is being initiated and for authorizing the transaction based on a confirmation/approval by the customer thereto. In accordance with one illustrative embodiment, a request to authorize the transaction is received, wherein the request includes a customer identifier; a determination is made whether to authorize the transaction based on the customer identifier; if the determination is to authorize the transaction, that fact is communicated to the customer; a confirmation that the transaction should, in fact, be authorized is received back from the customer; and the transaction is authorized in response to the customer's confirmation thereof. In accordance with another illustrative embodiment, a transaction initiated by an agent of the customer (i.e., the principal) is authorized by the principal when one or more threshold parameters that may be pre-defined by the principal are exceeded. A preferred method of alerting the customer and receiving a confirmation to authorize the transaction back from the customer is illustratively afforded by conventional two-way pagers.
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Blonder Greg E.
Greenspan Steven Lloyd
Mirville J. Robert
Sugla Binay
AT&T
Brendzel Henry T.
Zimmerman Brian
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