公开(公告)号：US20130013386A1

公开(公告)日：2013-01-10

申请号：US13215698

申请日：2011-08-23

申请人： Erwin Louis BLOMEYER ,  Adriaan Jordaan ROSSOUW

发明人： Erwin Louis BLOMEYER ,  Adriaan Jordaan ROSSOUW

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00 ,  G06Q20/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/0226 ,  G06Q20/202 ,  G06Q20/28 ,  G06Q30/0233 ,  G07F17/0028 ,  H04L12/6418

摘要： A method and system and for allocating value such as prepaid airtime to a customer account with a service provider is provided. The method includes receiving from a point of sale a request to allocate a specific amount of airtime to the customer account, receiving a retailer identifier which identifies a retailer to which the point of sale belongs, requesting the service provider to allocate the airtime to the customer account, sending the retailer identifier to the service provider so that the service provider can bill the retailer for the allocation of airtime, obtaining a confirmation from the service provider as to whether the allocation of airtime to the customer account was successful or not and, in response to a positive confirmation that the allocation of airtime was successful, communicating the positive confirmation to the point of sale so that the allocation of airtime is charged to a customer at the point of sale and, in response to a negative confirmation that the allocation of value was not successful, communicating the negative confirmation to the point of sale so the allocation of airtime is not charged to the customer at the point of sale. The point of sale can be configured to offer the customer a choice as to whether the customer would like change for a purchase in cash or in the form of airtime, and if the customer elects to receive change in the form of airtime, the airtime to be allocated to the customer account is selected to be greater than the value of the change in cash, thereby providing the customer with a monetary incentive to choose to receive the change in the form of airtime.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种方法和系统，并且用于将诸如预付通话时间的值分配给与服务提供商的客户帐户。 该方法包括从销售点接收向客户帐户分配特定数量的通话时间的请求，接收标识销售点所属零售商的零售商标识符，请求服务提供商向客户分配通话时间 帐户，将零售商标识符发送到服务提供商，使得服务提供商可以向零售商收取通话时间的分配，从服务提供商获得关于客户帐户的播放时间的分配是否成功的确认，以及在 回应积极确认通话时间分配成功，将肯定确认传达到销售点，以便在销售点向客户收取通话时间的分配，并作出反应确认，分配 价值不成功，将负面确认传达给销售点，因此通话时间的分配不是 在销售点向客户收取费用。 销售点可以配置为向客户提供客户是否希望以现金或通话时的形式更改购买的选择，如果客户选择以通话时间的形式接收更改，则通话时间 被分配给客户账户被选择为大于现金变动的价值，从而为客户提供货币激励以选择以通话时间的形式接收到变更。