Abstract: A process for dynamic routing of customer contacts to call recipients includes establishing accounts in a call recipient contact system for a plurality of call recipients. The plurality of call recipients are permitted to bid against one another for providing goods and/or services to a customer. A contact list is created and call recipients are ranked from a lowest bidding call recipient to a highest bidding call recipient. The contact is received from a customer and routed to the lowest bidding call recipient on the contact list. The call recipient account receiving the contact and fulfilling the transaction is credited an amount bid by the call recipient.

Abstract: A verification and notification system. The system receives information including a telephone number from a user during an attempt by the user to access a service. The telephone number is verified by establishing a short message service (SMS) connection with the user using the received telephone number, and receiving a submitted verification code entered by the user. The received information and verified telephone number are used to complete the registration process and enable the user to access the service. Upon the occurrence of a notification event, an indication of the occurrence of the notification event is transmitted to the verified telephone number. The system receives an acknowledgement of an action associated with the notification event from the user.

Abstract: A process for crowd-sourced completion of one or more investigative tasks may be utilized by intellectual property (IP) rights holders to identify trends in the infringement of intellectual property rights. As such, the inventive process may be utilized as a mobile trademark monitoring system. The process includes the steps of registering a plurality of users in a database on a centralized platform, and providing a software application to each of the users. The software application generates a report including information pertaining to the investigative task. A system server receives separate reports from two or more of the users and the reports are analyzed to identify trends.

Abstract: A registrant provides at least one registrant electronic contact, such as a telephone number, during a registration process. The registrant's information may be compared to a database of such information. The registrant is verified by establishing a connection with the registrant via the registrant contact. The verification code is communicated to the registrant, which is input into an on-line form. Notification events are established, and the registrant is notified of the occurrence of a previously established notification event by establishing a connection with the registrant via the registrant contact.

Abstract: A verification and notification system. The system receives information including a telephone number from a user during an attempt by the user to access a service. The telephone number is verified by establishing a short message service (SMS) connection with the user using the received telephone number, and receiving a submitted verification code entered by the user. The received information and verified telephone number are used to complete the registration process and enable the user to access the service. Upon the occurrence of a notification event, an indication of the occurrence of the notification event is transmitted to the verified telephone number. The system receives an acknowledgement of an action associated with the notification event from the user.

Abstract: A user provides at least one electronic contact address, such as a telephone number, during a registration process. The user is verified by establishing a connection with the user via the electronic contact address. Notification events are established, and the electronic contact address re-verified with the user via the electronic contact address when the notification event occurs. A re-verification code is conveyed to the user, which is returned by the user via an on-line form or telephone entry.

Abstract: A user provides at least one electronic contact address, such as a telephone number, during a registration process. The user is verified by establishing a connection with the user via the electronic contact address. Notification events are established, and the electronic contact address re-verified with the user via the electronic contact address when the notification event occurs. A re-verification code is conveyed to the user, which is returned by the user via an on-line form or telephone entry.

Abstract: Obtaining expert advice on-demand includes maintaining a substantially real-time list of available experts in selected fields, in an electronic database. The system receives a request from a customer for expert advice in one or more of the selected fields maintained in the electronic database. The system then electronically identifies one or more available experts to the customer in response to the request received and routes the request for expert advice to at least one of the available experts.

Abstract: A registrant provides at least one registrant electronic contact, such as a telephone number, during a registration process. The registrant's information may be compared to a database of such information. The registrant is verified by establishing a connection with the registrant via the registrant contact. The verification code is communicated to the registrant, which is input into an on-line form. Notification events are established, and the registrant is notified of the occurrence of a previously established notification event by establishing a connection with the registrant via the registrant contact.

Abstract: A registrant provides at least one registrant electronic contact, such as a telephone number, during a registration process. The registrant's information may be compared to a database of such information. The registrant is verified by establishing a connection with the registrant via the registrant contact. The verification code is communicated to the registrant, which is input into an on-line form. Notification events are established, and the registrant is notified of the occurrence of a previously established notification event by establishing a connection with the registrant via the registrant contact.

Abstract: A registrant provides at least one registrant electronic contact, such as a telephone number, during a registration process. The registrant's information may be compared to a database of such information. The registrant is verified by establishing a connection with the registrant via the registrant contact. The verification code is communicated to the registrant, which is input into an on-line form. Notification events are established, and the registrant is notified of the occurrence of a previously established notification event by establishing a connection with the registrant via the registrant contact.

Abstract: A registrant provides at least one registrant electronic contact, such as a telephone number, during a registration process. The registrant's information may be compared to a database of such information. The registrant is verified by establishing a connection with the registrant via the registrant contact. The verification code is communicated to the registrant, which is input into an on-line form. Notification events are established, and the registrant is notified of the occurrence of a previously established notification event by establishing a connection with the registrant via the registrant contact.

Abstract: A system for processing and funding short-term loans to a mobile credit storage facility account, including providing currency exchange services to the mobile credit storage facility account. Loan types include short-term loans, payday loans, micro credit loans, mobile telecommunication carrier top-off loans and overdraft loans. Loans may be based on an applicant's loan application, history of employment or mobile money creditworthiness including mobile money historical transactions and mobile phone company records. Loan funds may be deposited directly to the consumer's account that is associated with his/her mobile device. They may also be automatically debited for various payments. The consumer's mobile device telephone or IMEI number is used as a unique identifier to established and analyze a credit history and to facilitate the mobile money transactions.

Abstract: A process for dynamic routing of customer contacts to service providers includes establishing accounts in a service provider contact system for a plurality of service providers. The plurality of service providers are permitted to bid against one another for providing goods and/or services to a customer. A contact list is created of service providers ranked from a lowest bidder service provider to a highest bidder service provider. A contact is received from a customer and routed from the customer to the lowest bidder service provider on the contact list. The service provider account receiving the contact and fulfilling the transaction is credited the amount bid by the service provider.

Abstract: A dynamic contact routing system includes establishing a plurality of service provider accounts. The service providers submit bids for a per-contact charge. A contact list is created wherein the service providers are ranked from the highest bidder to the lowest bidder. A contact received from a potential customer is routed to the highest ranked bidder service provider on the contact list. If the contact is not responded to or rejected, the contact is rerouted to the next highest ranked service provider on the contact list. The service provider's account who has received the contact is charged the pre-contact amount by that service provider.

Abstract: After receiving a telephone number, various characteristics of the telephone number are determined. These include, the type of phone associated with the telephone number, the phone carrier of the telephone number, and geographic characteristics of the telephone number. This can be done, for instance, by analyzing the telephone connection or querying a database containing a plurality of telephone numbers and characteristics of each of the telephone numbers. The determination may be used to prevent fraudulent or restricted access to a website or system.

Abstract: Obtaining expert advice on-demand includes maintaining a substantially real-time list of available experts in selected fields, in an electronic database. The system receives a request from a customer for expert advice in one or more of the selected fields maintained in the electronic database. The system then electronically identifies one or more available experts to the customer in response to the request received and routes the request for expert advice to at least one of the available experts.

Abstract: A registrant provides at least one registrant electronic contact, such as a telephone number, during a registration process. The registrant's information may be compared to a database of such information. The registrant is verified by establishing a connection with the registrant via the registrant contact. The verification code is communicated to the registrant, which is input into an on-line form or a telephone verification system. Notification events are established, and the registrant is notified of the occurrence of a previously established notification event by establishing a connection with the registrant via the registrant contact.

Abstract: A process for dynamic routing of customer contacts to call recipients includes establishing accounts in a call recipient contact system for a plurality of call recipients. The plurality of call recipients are permitted to bid against one another for providing goods and/or services to a customer. A contact list is created and call recipients are ranked from a lowest bidding call recipient to a highest bidding call recipient. The contact is received from a customer and routed to the lowest bidding call recipient on the contact list. The call recipient account receiving the contact and fulfilling the transaction is credited an amount bid by the call recipient.

Abstract: A process for conducting a backgammon tournament using tournament chips comprising the steps of registering two or more tournament players, assigning one or more tournament chips to each of the players, setting a chip value for each point scored in a game of backgammon, pairing tournament players in groups of two, playing a round of the tournament consisting of games of backgammon involving each group of tournament players, determining whether a tournament player is eliminated from the tournament based upon each player's tournament chip total, and repeating the steps of setting, pairing, playing and determining until only one tournament player remains. The process may be performed online or in person.