Patents Assigned to Semafone Limited
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Publication number: 20220156709Abstract: A system and method for facilitating an online transaction between a customer and a merchant, wherein receipt of an input from a merchant server defining a specified payment transaction causes a link generation module to generate a URL link uniquely associated with an online data capture resource for the specified transaction, such that activation of said link by a customer device facilitates a data capture process causing payment data to be provided to a payment module for completion of said specified financial transaction via a payment service provider.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: SEMAFONE LIMITEDInventors: Thomas BALDWIN, Ben RAFFERTY, Graham PREEDY
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Patent number: 11049108Abstract: A telephone call processor for processing telephone calls comprising voice signals and data signals, the call processor comprising a first telephone interface and a second telephone interface, the call processor being operable in a first mode and in a second mode. In the first mode, the call processor is adapted to receive voice signals and data signals at the first telephone interface and to transmit voice signals and data signals via the second telephone interface. In the second mode, the call processor is adapted to receive voice signals and data signals at the first telephone interface, to block data signals from being transmitted via the second telephone interface and optionally to transmit voice signals via the second telephone interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Semafone LimitedInventors: Andrew Peter William Tew, David Jackson, Timothy Critchley, Richard Charles Cooper-Driver
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Publication number: 20210081923Abstract: A method (preferably, performed by an authentication server) of authenticating a request made by a first party of a second party, comprising: receiving from the first party a request and a first symbol string obtained by the first party from the second party, the first symbol string being determined from the request; generating a second symbol string in dependence on the request; authenticating the request of the first party in dependence on the first and second symbol strings.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2018Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: SEMAFONE LIMITEDInventors: Ben RAFFERTY, Dirk NIGGEMANN
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Publication number: 20210051136Abstract: Apparatus for the transfer of sensitive information between two parties facilitated by an intermediary, the apparatus adapted to: receive from the first party voice signals and data signals; determine a parameter relating to an estimate of the time required for sensitive information to be determined from the data signals received from the first party; transmit to the intermediary the received voice signals and the parameter; determine sensitive information from the received data signals; and transmit the sensitive information to the second party. A corresponding method is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicant: SEMAFONE LIMITEDInventors: Timothy CRITCHLEY, Thomas BALDWIN
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Patent number: 10402826Abstract: A telephone call processor for processing telephone calls comprising voice signals and data signals, the call processor comprising a first telephone interface and a second telephone interface, the call processor being operable in a first mode and in a second mode. In the first mode, the call processor is adapted to receive voice signals and data signals at the first telephone interface and to transmit voice signals and data signals via the second telephone interface. In the second mode, the call processor is adapted to receive voice signals and data signals at the first telephone interface, to block data signals from being transmitted via the second telephone interface and optionally to transmit voice signals via the second telephone interface.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Semafone LimitedInventors: Andrew Peter William Tew, David Jackson, Timothy Critchley, Richard Charles Cooper-Driver
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Patent number: 9858573Abstract: A telephone call processor for processing telephone calls comprising voice signals and data signals, the call processor comprising a first telephone interface and a second telephone interface, the call processor being operable in a first mode and in a second mode. In the first mode, the call processor is adapted to receive voice signals and data signals at the first telephone interface and to transmit voice signals and data signals via the second telephone interface. In the second mode, the call processor is adapted to receive voice signals and data signals at the first telephone interface, to block data signals from being transmitted via the second telephone interface and optionally to transmit voice signals via the second telephone interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2014Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Semafone LimitedInventors: Andrew Peter William Tew, David Jackson, Timothy Critchley, Richard Charles Cooper-Driver
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Patent number: 8750471Abstract: A telephone call processor for processing telephone calls comprising voice signals and data signals, the call processor comprising a first telephone interface and a second telephone interface, the call processor being operable in a first mode and in a second mode. In the first mode, the call processor is adapted to receive voice signals and data signals at the first telephone interface and to transmit voice signals and data signals via the second telephone interface. In the second mode, the call processor is adapted to receive voice signals and data signals at the first telephone interface, to block data signals from being transmitted via the second telephone interface and optionally to transmit voice signals via the second telephone interface.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2009Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Semafone LimitedInventors: Andrew Peter William Tew, David Jackson, Timothy Critchley, Richard Charles Cooper-Driver