WO2009042775A1 - Real-time balance on a mobile phone - Google Patents

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WO2009042775A1
WO2009042775A1 PCT/US2008/077688 US2008077688W WO2009042775A1 WO 2009042775 A1 WO2009042775 A1 WO 2009042775A1 US 2008077688 W US2008077688 W US 2008077688W WO 2009042775 A1 WO2009042775 A1 WO 2009042775A1
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Nicole Janine Granucci
Carrie Elaine Vriheas
Ayman A. Hammad
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  • aspects of the present invention relate in general to financial services. Aspects include a prepaid payment mobiie phone apparatus, system, method and computer- readable medium configured to display a real-time prepaid payment balance. Further aspects of the invention include a method of storing and displaying a real-time prepaid payment balance on a mobile phone.
  • payment mobile phones debit-account mobile phones with a set limited value associated with a Primary Account Number (PAN).
  • PAN Primary Account Number
  • Some mobile phone debit accounts are affiliated with a particular vendor, such as a department store, supermarket or restaurant; yet other mobile phone debit accounts are affiliated with an acquirer, payment processor, or other issuer.
  • the prepaid payment mobile phone may be used to pay for the transaction. If the purchase amount equals or exceeds the value of the prepaid payment mobile phone, the customer simply pays the excess amount using cash, credit card, debit card, or other financial instrument accepted by the vendor. However, when the purchase amount is less than the value of the prepaid payment mobile phone account, the purchase price is simply subtracted from the prepaid payment mobile phone account balance, and a new balance remains associated with the mobile phone.
  • Mobile phone customers who carry prepaid payment mobile phones are often unaware of the debit balance of a prepaid payment mobile phone, especially on non- reloadable mobile phone products. While some issuer and acquirers mandate support for balance inquiries for some gift mobile phones and incentive mobile phones, such support is optional at merchants.
  • SUMMARY Embodiments of the invention include a system, method and prepaid payment mobile phone configured to display a current debit balance.
  • a remarkable aspect of the invention is that a prepaid balance retrieved from an issuer and stored at the prepaid payment mobile phone, as generally no such information is ever stored on such phones.
  • the prepaid payment mobiie phone receives a balance request from a button on the mobile phone. After retrieving the current balance encoded within, the mobiie phone displays the current balance.
  • the balance may be calculated after a payment transaction or received as a message from an acquirer, payment network, or issuer.
  • FIGS. 1A-B iliustrate an embodiment of a prepaid payment mobile phone configured to display the current balance
  • FiG. 2 is a block diagram of a system embodiment to support the display of a current debit balance on a prepaid payment mobile phone.
  • FIG, 3 is an expanded view of a merchant's system embodiment to support the display of the current debit balance on a prepaid payment mobile phone.
  • FiG. 4 is a flow chart of a mobile phone process embodiment configured to calculate and store balance information after a payment transaction.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates a process embodiment sends a prepaid payment mobile phone balance information after a payment transaction.
  • FiG. 6 is a flow chart of a mobile phone-writer process embodiment that stores balance information.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates a process embodiment to display the current debit balance of a prepaid payment mobile phone.
  • One aspect of the present invention includes the realization that displaying a realtime balance on a prepaid payment mobile phone reduces the cost of issuers supporting balance inquiry and balance returns from mobile phone customers. With the balance on a mobile phone display solution, mobile phone customers would be able to check their balance at any time, generating a higher volume of unplanned purchases, and potentially a higher amount of re-loads at the point of sale.
  • Embodiments of the present invention include a mobile phone apparatus, system, method, and computer-readable medium configured to support the real-time display of a debit balance on a prepaid payment mobile phone.
  • Other embodiments of the present invention may include remote terminals configured to support the real-time display of a debit balance on a prepaid payment mobile phone.
  • FIGS. 1A-B depict a prepayment mobile phone 1000 configured to display of a balance on a real-time balance, constructed and operative in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • prepayment mobile phone 1000 is depicted as a two-piece "flip" phone, but it is understood that the principles herein may be applied to any style mobile phone capable of electronic payment.
  • the payment mobile phone 1000 includes a housing 1002, a display 1004, and an input 1006. It is understood that housing 1002 may comprise one or more components. Some embodiments of housing 1002 may be plastic or any other suitable material known in the art.
  • Display 1004 may be a iiquid crystal display (LCD), light-emitting-diode (LED), organic light-emitting-diode (OLED), surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED), digital light processing (DLP), interferometric modulator display (IMOD) or any other display known in the art that can be used within the form factor required by the payment mobile phone 1000.
  • LCD liquid crystal display
  • LED light-emitting-diode
  • OLED organic light-emitting-diode
  • SED surface-conduction electron-emitter display
  • DLP digital light processing
  • ILD interferometric modulator display
  • Input 1006 may be any sensor or input device known in the art, including, but not limited to buttons 1006a, trackballs 1006b, scroll-wheels 1006c, touch-pads or the like. In some embodiments, input 1006 and display 1004 may be merged as a touch-screen input device.
  • FIG. 1 B Internal components of payment mobile phone 1000 are shown in FIG. 1 B. Contained within housing 1002, a processor or central processing unit 1008 is electrically coupled to the display 1004, input 1006, Read-Only-Memory (ROM) 1010, Random Access Memory (RAM) 1012, a non-volatile programmable memory 1014, input/output circuitry 1016, an input/output port 1018, power supply 1020, cellular transceiver 1022, and radio-frequency transceiver 1024, It is understood by those familiar with the art that some or all of these elements may be embedded together in some combination as an integrated circuit (IC).
  • IC integrated circuit
  • Processor 1008 may be any central processing unit, microprocessor, microcontroller, computational device or circuit known in the art.
  • Non-volatile programmable memory 1014 is configured to be an application memory device, and may store information such as the primary account number and/or current debit balance information. Examples of non-volatile programmable memory 1014 include, but not limited to: a magnetic stripe, flash memory, Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM), or any other non-volatile computer memory or storage known in the art.
  • EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
  • Random access memory 1012 is any temporary memory storage medium element known in the art. Random access memory is usually (but does not have to be) volatile memory.
  • the processor 1008, the read only memory 1010, the random access memory 1012 and the non-volatile programmable memory 1014 may coupled to one another through an internal bus system. Data can be interchanged between the input/output unit 1016, the processor 1008 and the non-volatile programmable memory 1014. Furthermore, data can be interchanged between the processor 1008 and the non-volatile programmable memory 1014.
  • the input/output circuitry 1016 is further coupled to an input/output port 1018 being formed in a surface area of the plastic housing 1002.
  • Input/output port 1018 may be any data communications port known in the art, including, but not limited to: a serial port, a parallel port, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, an the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (!EEE) 1394 ("firewire”) interface, or any port known in the art.
  • Cellular transceiver 1022 may be any cellular, personal communications system (PCS), Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution (EDGE), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (ODFM), or any other wireless communications protocol known in the art able to support voice communications.
  • PCS personal communications system
  • GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
  • GPRS General Packet Radio Service
  • EDGE Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution
  • CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
  • WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
  • FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
  • OFDM Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing
  • Radio frequency transceiver 1024 may use any wireless data protocol known in the art, such as: Bluetooth, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), IEEE 802.11 (“WiFi”), IEEE 802,16 (“WiMax”), or any other wireless data communications standard known in the art.
  • WAP Wireless Application Protocol
  • WiFi IEEE 802.11
  • WiMax IEEE 802,16
  • Power supply 1020 may be any electrical power supply, including a battery, fuel cell, long-term capacitor or any other power storage known in the art. Power supply 1020 may be recharged by applying a direct current voltage.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a system to support the display of a real-time prepaid payment balance on a mobile phone, constructed and operative in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • a customer 2100 receives a prepaid payment mobile phone 1000. in some instances the mobile phone 1000 is purchased from an issuer 3400; in other instances the customer receives the mobile phone 1000 indirectly from the issuer 3400, as a gift or as the result of a promotion.
  • the merchant 2200 contacts an acquirer 3000 (for example, a commercial bank) to determine whether there is sufficient funds on the mobile phone to pay for the transaction or a portion of the transaction.
  • acquirer 3000 for example, a commercial bank
  • the acquirer 2300 forwards the details of the payment transaction to a payment processor 2400 for processing.
  • Payment processor may be any payment network known in the art.
  • An example of a payment network includes, but is not limited to: VisaTM, MasterCardTM, American ExpressTM, Dinners ClubTM, or DiscoverTM.
  • the payment processor 2400 determines whether the transaction should be allowed; in other instances, the payment processor 2400 queries the issuer 3400 to determine whether the prepayment mobile phone has enough funds to allow the transaction,
  • FIG, 3 depicts merchant 2200 in greater detail, where merchant 2200 includes a system to support the display of a real-time prepaid payment balance on a mobile phone, constructed and operative in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • merchant 2200 comprises a mobile phone point-of-sale read/writer 2210 that communicated with a merchant central computer 2230 via the merchant's private network 2220.
  • merchant centra! computer 2230 may be coupled to hot list storage 2240.
  • Mobile phone point-of-sale read/writer 2210 is any device capable of reading a personal account number off a prepaid payment mobile phone 1000, and write balance information to the prepaid payment mobile phone 1000.
  • Merchant central computer 2230 is a networked device capable of communicating transaction data with mobile phone point-of-sale read/writer 2210 and transmitting the transaction data over network 4100 to acquirer 2300.
  • Hot list storage 2240 may be any list, database, or memory structure containing either invalid or valid primary account numbers.
  • FIG. 7 iilustrates a process embodiment to display the current debit balance of a prepaid payment mobile phone 1000, constructed and operative in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • a user wants to know the balance of prepaid payment mobile phone 1000, the user requests the balance through pressing button 1006.
  • the mobile phone receives the balance request, block 7002. in mobile phone 1000 embodiments that utilize a personal identification number (PiN), display 1004 prompts the user for the PiN number, block 7004.
  • the personal identification number may be stored in non-volatile programmable memory 1014. At this point, the user may enter a PIN number using buttons 1006a.
  • an error message is displayed when an invalid PIN number is entered, block 7006, and flow returns to block 7004.
  • the display Upon receipt of a valid PiN number as determined at decision block 7006, the display shows the remaining prepaid balance, block 7008.
  • a flow chart depicts a mobile phone-writer process embodiment configured to calculate and store balance information on a prepaid payment mobile phone after a payment transaction, constructed and operative in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • a prepaid payment mobile phone 1000 When a prepaid payment mobile phone 1000 is presented for payment at a merchant 2200, the primary account number and other data may be read at a mobile phone point-of-sale read/writer 2210, block 4002.
  • the mobile phone 1000 may be presented in a variety of different methods, such as transmitting personal account data or via a contactless ("paywave") radio-frequency presentation, as are known in the art.
  • the transaction amount is subtracted from the pre-paid balance on the phone, block 4004, and the new remaining balance is stored at block 4006.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates a process embodiment in which the acquirer 2300, payment processor 2400 or issuer 2500 sends the prepaid payment phone 1000 a Short Message Service (SMS) notification containing updated balance information, constructed and operative in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • SMS Short Message Service
  • the balance information is subsequently stored on the prepaid payment mobile phone.
  • primary account number and other information is read by merchant 2200, block 5002.
  • Prepaid payment mobile phone 1000 is received from a mobile phone point-of-sale read/writer 2210, via the RF transceiver 1024, block 5002.
  • a payment card validation is performed using the data retrieved from the prepaid payment phone 1000.
  • merchant central computer 2230 consults with hot list storage 2240 to determine whether the transaction may be validated, in other embodiments, merchant central computer 2230 contacts acquirer 2300 to determine whether the transaction is valid, if the transaction is invalid as determined at decision block 5004, an error message is returned at block 5006. When the transaction is valid, flow continues at block 5008.
  • acquirer 2300, payment processor 2400 or issuer 2500 sends the prepaid payment phone 1000 an SMS notification containing updated balance information.
  • the SMS notification may be saved to the phone as either an SMS notification, or as data for the phone's payment program.
  • FIG. 6 depicts a flow chart of a mobile phone-writer process 6000 embodiment that stores new balance information on a prepaid payment mobile phone 1000 after a transaction or fund reload, constructed and operative in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 6 assumes that the mobile phone reload is occurring at merchant 2200 in communication with issuer 2500; it is understood that the reload mobile phone may also occur at other locations.
  • process 6000 may also be used during the activation of pre-payment mobile phones 1000 when such mobile phones are initially purchased,
  • prepaid payment mobile phone 1000 provides its transaction data to a mobile phone point-of-sale read/writer 2210, block 6002.
  • Such transaction data may include the primary account number or other identifier.
  • the new balance of the prepaid mobile phone is sent to the mobile phone 1000, block 6002.
  • the amount of the new balance may be received as data from payment processor 2400, issuer 3400 or calculated by the merchant 2200 using information received from issuer 3400 or payment processor 2400.
  • the receipt of the new balance may be accomplished via the RF transceiver 1024.
  • the new balance may be received as a SMS notification, or any other data transmission known in the art.
  • the new balance is written to non-volatile programmable storage media 1014, block 6006, and process 6000 ends.

Abstract

A system, method and prepaid payment mobile phone configured to display a current prepaid balance. The prepaid payment mobile phone receives a debit balance request from input on the mobile phone. After retrieving an encoded current balance, the mobile phone displays the amount. The current balance may be calculated by the phone after a transaction, or the phone may receive a debit balance via a short message service notification.

Description

REAL-TIME BALANCE ON A MOBILE PHONE
BACKGROUND
Field of the Invention
Aspects of the present invention relate in general to financial services. Aspects include a prepaid payment mobiie phone apparatus, system, method and computer- readable medium configured to display a real-time prepaid payment balance. Further aspects of the invention include a method of storing and displaying a real-time prepaid payment balance on a mobile phone.
"Description of the Related Art"
The traditional paper "gift-certificate" is gradually being replaced by prepaid
payment mobile phones — debit-account mobile phones with a set limited value associated with a Primary Account Number (PAN). Some mobile phone debit accounts are affiliated with a particular vendor, such as a department store, supermarket or restaurant; yet other mobile phone debit accounts are affiliated with an acquirer, payment processor, or other issuer.
When a mobile phone customer makes a purchase, the prepaid payment mobile phone may be used to pay for the transaction. If the purchase amount equals or exceeds the value of the prepaid payment mobile phone, the customer simply pays the excess amount using cash, credit card, debit card, or other financial instrument accepted by the vendor. However, when the purchase amount is less than the value of the prepaid payment mobile phone account, the purchase price is simply subtracted from the prepaid payment mobile phone account balance, and a new balance remains associated with the mobile phone.
Mobile phone customers who carry prepaid payment mobile phones are often unaware of the debit balance of a prepaid payment mobile phone, especially on non- reloadable mobile phone products. While some issuer and acquirers mandate support for balance inquiries for some gift mobile phones and incentive mobile phones, such support is optional at merchants.
When issuers fail to support these enhancements, or when merchants do not support them, mobile phone customers are restricted to spending the amount that is available on the mobile phone within one transaction often without knowing the balance in advance.
When issuers, acquirers, and processors do not support these enhancements at the point-of-sale, the consumer is inconvenienced, and the process breaks down. Consumer frustration is common, resulting in higher amounts of breakage (resulting in unrecognized sales volume), and alternate forms of payment being used. Worse, consumers are discouraged from purchasing more prepaid payment mobile phones.
In the re-loadable prepaid mobile phone category, the only way a consumer can determine their balance on a mobile phone is by calling their mobile phone issuer/third party agent or looking up the information online. SUMMARY Embodiments of the invention include a system, method and prepaid payment mobile phone configured to display a current debit balance. A remarkable aspect of the invention is that a prepaid balance retrieved from an issuer and stored at the prepaid payment mobile phone, as generally no such information is ever stored on such phones. The prepaid payment mobiie phone receives a balance request from a button on the mobile phone. After retrieving the current balance encoded within, the mobiie phone displays the current balance. The balance may be calculated after a payment transaction or received as a message from an acquirer, payment network, or issuer.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIGS. 1A-B iliustrate an embodiment of a prepaid payment mobile phone configured to display the current balance,
FiG. 2 is a block diagram of a system embodiment to support the display of a current debit balance on a prepaid payment mobile phone.
FIG, 3 is an expanded view of a merchant's system embodiment to support the display of the current debit balance on a prepaid payment mobile phone.
FiG. 4 is a flow chart of a mobile phone process embodiment configured to calculate and store balance information after a payment transaction.
FIG. 5 illustrates a process embodiment sends a prepaid payment mobile phone balance information after a payment transaction.
FiG. 6 is a flow chart of a mobile phone-writer process embodiment that stores balance information. FIG. 7 illustrates a process embodiment to display the current debit balance of a prepaid payment mobile phone.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
One aspect of the present invention includes the realization that displaying a realtime balance on a prepaid payment mobile phone reduces the cost of issuers supporting balance inquiry and balance returns from mobile phone customers. With the balance on a mobile phone display solution, mobile phone customers would be able to check their balance at any time, generating a higher volume of unplanned purchases, and potentially a higher amount of re-loads at the point of sale.
Embodiments of the present invention include a mobile phone apparatus, system, method, and computer-readable medium configured to support the real-time display of a debit balance on a prepaid payment mobile phone. Other embodiments of the present invention may include remote terminals configured to support the real-time display of a debit balance on a prepaid payment mobile phone.
Turning to FIGS. 1A-B, these figures depict a prepayment mobile phone 1000 configured to display of a balance on a real-time balance, constructed and operative in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. In this example, prepayment mobile phone 1000 is depicted as a two-piece "flip" phone, but it is understood that the principles herein may be applied to any style mobile phone capable of electronic payment.
As shown in FIG. 1A, the payment mobile phone 1000 includes a housing 1002, a display 1004, and an input 1006. It is understood that housing 1002 may comprise one or more components. Some embodiments of housing 1002 may be plastic or any other suitable material known in the art.
Display 1004 may be a iiquid crystal display (LCD), light-emitting-diode (LED), organic light-emitting-diode (OLED), surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED), digital light processing (DLP), interferometric modulator display (IMOD) or any other display known in the art that can be used within the form factor required by the payment mobile phone 1000.
Input 1006 may be any sensor or input device known in the art, including, but not limited to buttons 1006a, trackballs 1006b, scroll-wheels 1006c, touch-pads or the like. In some embodiments, input 1006 and display 1004 may be merged as a touch-screen input device.
Internal components of payment mobile phone 1000 are shown in FIG. 1 B. Contained within housing 1002, a processor or central processing unit 1008 is electrically coupled to the display 1004, input 1006, Read-Only-Memory (ROM) 1010, Random Access Memory (RAM) 1012, a non-volatile programmable memory 1014, input/output circuitry 1016, an input/output port 1018, power supply 1020, cellular transceiver 1022, and radio-frequency transceiver 1024, It is understood by those familiar with the art that some or all of these elements may be embedded together in some combination as an integrated circuit (IC).
Processor 1008 may be any central processing unit, microprocessor, microcontroller, computational device or circuit known in the art.
Read only memory 1010 is embedded with an operating system. Non-volatile programmable memory 1014 is configured to be an application memory device, and may store information such as the primary account number and/or current debit balance information. Examples of non-volatile programmable memory 1014 include, but not limited to: a magnetic stripe, flash memory, Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM), or any other non-volatile computer memory or storage known in the art.
Random access memory 1012 is any temporary memory storage medium element known in the art. Random access memory is usually (but does not have to be) volatile memory.
The processor 1008, the read only memory 1010, the random access memory 1012 and the non-volatile programmable memory 1014 may coupled to one another through an internal bus system. Data can be interchanged between the input/output unit 1016, the processor 1008 and the non-volatile programmable memory 1014. Furthermore, data can be interchanged between the processor 1008 and the non-volatile programmable memory 1014.
Additionaily, in some embodiments, the input/output circuitry 1016 is further coupled to an input/output port 1018 being formed in a surface area of the plastic housing 1002. Input/output port 1018 may be any data communications port known in the art, including, but not limited to: a serial port, a parallel port, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, an the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (!EEE) 1394 ("firewire") interface, or any port known in the art.
Cellular transceiver 1022 may be any cellular, personal communications system (PCS), Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution (EDGE), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (ODFM), or any other wireless communications protocol known in the art able to support voice communications.
Radio frequency transceiver 1024 may use any wireless data protocol known in the art, such as: Bluetooth, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), IEEE 802.11 ("WiFi"), IEEE 802,16 ("WiMax"), or any other wireless data communications standard known in the art.
Power supply 1020 may be any electrical power supply, including a battery, fuel cell, long-term capacitor or any other power storage known in the art. Power supply 1020 may be recharged by applying a direct current voltage.
FIG. 2 illustrates a system to support the display of a real-time prepaid payment balance on a mobile phone, constructed and operative in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. A customer 2100 receives a prepaid payment mobile phone 1000. in some instances the mobile phone 1000 is purchased from an issuer 3400; in other instances the customer receives the mobile phone 1000 indirectly from the issuer 3400, as a gift or as the result of a promotion. When the customer 1000 uses the prepaid payment mobile phone 1000 at a merchant 2200 to pay for a product or service, the merchant 2200 contacts an acquirer 3000 (for example, a commercial bank) to determine whether there is sufficient funds on the mobile phone to pay for the transaction or a portion of the transaction. The acquirer 2300 forwards the details of the payment transaction to a payment processor 2400 for processing. Payment processor may be any payment network known in the art. An example of a payment network includes, but is not limited to: Visa™, MasterCard™, American Express™, Dinners Club™, or Discover™. In some instances, the payment processor 2400 determines whether the transaction should be allowed; in other instances, the payment processor 2400 queries the issuer 3400 to determine whether the prepayment mobile phone has enough funds to allow the transaction,
FIG, 3 depicts merchant 2200 in greater detail, where merchant 2200 includes a system to support the display of a real-time prepaid payment balance on a mobile phone, constructed and operative in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. As shown, in FIG. 3, merchant 2200 comprises a mobile phone point-of-sale read/writer 2210 that communicated with a merchant central computer 2230 via the merchant's private network 2220. In some embodiments, merchant centra! computer 2230 may be coupled to hot list storage 2240.
Mobile phone point-of-sale read/writer 2210 is any device capable of reading a personal account number off a prepaid payment mobile phone 1000, and write balance information to the prepaid payment mobile phone 1000.
Merchant central computer 2230 is a networked device capable of communicating transaction data with mobile phone point-of-sale read/writer 2210 and transmitting the transaction data over network 4100 to acquirer 2300.
Hot list storage 2240 may be any list, database, or memory structure containing either invalid or valid primary account numbers.
Operation of these prepayment mobile phone and system embodiments of the present invention may be illustrated by example.
We now turn our attention to method or process embodiments. It is understood by those known in the art that instructions for such method embodiments may be stored on a non-volatile programmable memory 1014 and executed by a processor 1008. FIG. 7 iilustrates a process embodiment to display the current debit balance of a prepaid payment mobile phone 1000, constructed and operative in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. When a user wants to know the balance of prepaid payment mobile phone 1000, the user requests the balance through pressing button 1006. The mobile phone receives the balance request, block 7002. in mobile phone 1000 embodiments that utilize a personal identification number (PiN), display 1004 prompts the user for the PiN number, block 7004. The personal identification number may be stored in non-volatile programmable memory 1014. At this point, the user may enter a PIN number using buttons 1006a.
In some embodiments, an error message is displayed when an invalid PIN number is entered, block 7006, and flow returns to block 7004.
Upon receipt of a valid PiN number as determined at decision block 7006, the display shows the remaining prepaid balance, block 7008.
Turning to FSG. 4, a flow chart depicts a mobile phone-writer process embodiment configured to calculate and store balance information on a prepaid payment mobile phone after a payment transaction, constructed and operative in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
When a prepaid payment mobile phone 1000 is presented for payment at a merchant 2200, the primary account number and other data may be read at a mobile phone point-of-sale read/writer 2210, block 4002. The mobile phone 1000 may be presented in a variety of different methods, such as transmitting personal account data or via a contactless ("paywave") radio-frequency presentation, as are known in the art. The transaction amount is subtracted from the pre-paid balance on the phone, block 4004, and the new remaining balance is stored at block 4006.
FIG. 5 illustrates a process embodiment in which the acquirer 2300, payment processor 2400 or issuer 2500 sends the prepaid payment phone 1000 a Short Message Service (SMS) notification containing updated balance information, constructed and operative in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. In some embodiments the balance information is subsequently stored on the prepaid payment mobile phone. As part of the payment transaction, primary account number and other information is read by merchant 2200, block 5002. Prepaid payment mobile phone 1000 is received from a mobile phone point-of-sale read/writer 2210, via the RF transceiver 1024, block 5002.
A payment card validation, as is known in the art, is performed using the data retrieved from the prepaid payment phone 1000. In some embodiments, merchant central computer 2230 consults with hot list storage 2240 to determine whether the transaction may be validated, in other embodiments, merchant central computer 2230 contacts acquirer 2300 to determine whether the transaction is valid, if the transaction is invalid as determined at decision block 5004, an error message is returned at block 5006. When the transaction is valid, flow continues at block 5008.
At block 5008, the payment transaction occurs.
Either after the payment transaction is completed, or during the transaction, acquirer 2300, payment processor 2400 or issuer 2500 sends the prepaid payment phone 1000 an SMS notification containing updated balance information. The SMS notification may be saved to the phone as either an SMS notification, or as data for the phone's payment program.
FIG. 6 depicts a flow chart of a mobile phone-writer process 6000 embodiment that stores new balance information on a prepaid payment mobile phone 1000 after a transaction or fund reload, constructed and operative in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 6 assumes that the mobile phone reload is occurring at merchant 2200 in communication with issuer 2500; it is understood that the reload mobile phone may also occur at other locations. It is also understood that process 6000 may also be used during the activation of pre-payment mobile phones 1000 when such mobile phones are initially purchased,
At first, prepaid payment mobile phone 1000 provides its transaction data to a mobile phone point-of-sale read/writer 2210, block 6002. Such transaction data may include the primary account number or other identifier. The new balance of the prepaid mobile phone is sent to the mobile phone 1000, block 6002. The amount of the new balance may be received as data from payment processor 2400, issuer 3400 or calculated by the merchant 2200 using information received from issuer 3400 or payment processor 2400. In mobile phone embodiments that use RF ID, the receipt of the new balance may be accomplished via the RF transceiver 1024. In other embodiments, the new balance may be received as a SMS notification, or any other data transmission known in the art. The new balance is written to non-volatile programmable storage media 1014, block 6006, and process 6000 ends.
The previous description of the embodiments is provided to enable any person skilled in the art to practice the invention. The various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without the use of inventive faculty. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein, but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.

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1. A method of displaying a current balance on a prepaid payment mobile phone comprising:
receiving a balance request from an input on the prepaid payment mobile phone;
retrieving the current balance encoded on a non-volatile memory within the prepaid payment mobile phone;
displaying the current balance on a display on the prepaid payment mobile phone.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
prompting for input of a personal identification number (PIN).
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:
determining whether the personal identification number is valid.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the current balance on the mobile phone is displayed only if the personal identification number is determined to be valid.
5. A prepaid payment mobile phone comprising:
a non-volatile programmable memory configured to store a current balance associated with the prepaid payment mobile phone;
an input device configured to receive a request for the current balance;
a display configured to show the current balance when the input device receives the request for the current balance.
6. The prepaid payment mobile phone of claim 5, wherein the display is further configured to prompt for input of a personal identification number (PIN).
7. The prepaid payment mobile phone of claim 6, further comprising: a processor configured to determine whether the persona! identification number is valid.
8. The prepaid payment mobile phone of claim 7, wherein the current balance on a mobile phone is displayed only if the personal identification number is determined to be valid.
9. A method of encoding a current balance on a prepaid payment mobile phone comprising:
determining the current balance;
encoding the current balance on a mobile phone on the prepaid payment mobile phone.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein the current balance on a mobile phone is encoded on a non-volatile programmable memory in the prepaid payment mobile phone.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the current balance on the prepaid payment mobile phone is determined through subtracting a transaction amount from a previous balance.
12. The method of claim 10, wherein the current balance on the prepaid payment mobile phone is determined by querying an acquirer, payment processor, or issuer.
13. The method of claim 10, wherein the current balance on the prepaid payment mobile phone is received from an acquirer, payment processor, or issuer via a Short Message Service (SMS) message.
14. A computer-readable medium, encoded with data and instructions, such that when executed by a device, the instructions causes the device to:
determine a current balance;
encode the current balance on the prepaid payment mobile phone.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein the current balance is encoded on a nonvolatile programmable memory in the prepaid payment mobile phone.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the current balance is determined through subtracting a transaction amount from a previous balance.
17. The method of claim 15, wherein the current balance is determined through querying an acquirer, payment processor, or issuer.
18. The method of claim 15, wherein the current balance is received from an acquirer, payment processor, or issuer via a Short Message Service (SMS) message.
19. The prepaid payment mobile phone of claim 8, further comprising:
a processor configured to determine the current balance.
20. The prepaid payment mobile phone of claim 19, wherein the current balance is determined through subtracting a transaction amount from a previous balance.
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