Patents by Inventor Fortumo Ou

Fortumo Ou has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20130173465
    Abstract: System and method to facilitate purchases through mobile communications on various mobile devices by reducing the number of steps it takes the user to complete the purchase with mobile in-application payments. The payment confirmation is provided using platform's native user experience interface. User is informed about the price of the purchase, respective terms of use and the choice of confirming or cancelling the purchase. Once the purchase is confirmed by pressing the payment confirmation button, respective controller handles the process of performing the payment confirmation request via SMS text message. Confirmation request is done in the background without the need of any involvement of the user. After the payment is confirmed by mobile carrier a confirmation dialogue is displayed to user using native platform interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: FORTUMO OU
    Inventor: FORTUMO OU
  • Publication number: 20130138558
    Abstract: System and method to enable and facilitate purchases through mobile communications on mobile devices, smartphones, feature phones, tablet computers, etc by allowing the user to interact with native interface and/or by eliminating the need of entering the MSISDN identifier by the user. MSISDN value is required to identify mobile subscriber and request a mobile billing transaction through carrier's infrastructure. A system comprises at least one data computing facility, which is connected to mobile carrier billing, short code and networking infrastructure and a plurality of converters to communicate and interface with a plurality of controllers for various mobile device types and platforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: FORTUMO OU
    Inventor: Fortumo OU
  • Publication number: 20130137405
    Abstract: System and method to facilitate purchases through mobile communications on various types of mobile devices and platforms by reducing the number of steps it takes the user to complete the purchase with mobile in-app payments, and/or by enabling purchases to be made without the device being connected to the Internet and/or by automatic compilation of payment request. A set of user identifying details, including user's country, mobile carrier name and phone number, is required in order to process a mobile purchase. The advantages of the present invention from the user perspective is the ability to complete the purchase in fewer steps by automatic user details identification and the ability to complete the purchase in case there is no Internet connection by embedding a specially formatted database file with the application of mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: FORTUMO Ou
    Inventor: Fortumo Ou