BUSINESS METHOD IMPLEMENTED ON A WIRELESS PRE-PAID PLATFORM OF BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS TRANSACTION PROCESSING AND BILLING

摘要

A maintenance and permissioning system which interfaces with both avendor's legacy system and a wireless provider's pre-paid platform isprovided.Messages are sent to wireless provider 851 by some transfer medium 812. On thewireless service provider side of the transaction, the system includes apadded cellfor processing transactions from the vendor 854. This cell includes pre-paidplatform transaction extraction 858 for extracting only those parts of themessagescompliant with the pre-paid platform. Transfer protocol APIs 860 are alsoincluded for converting messages to a protocol agreed upon by both the vendorand the wireless service provider. Once in place, the business-to-businessenterprise provides a means for establishing heretofore unknown businessmodelsin which to implement new business methods. In one such model, reseller model2000, reseller 2006 is provided with a means for marketing the of WSP'sproductsand services to customers 2008 as though reseller 2006 was the originator ofthecommodity. In accordance with another business model, reward model 2100,vendor 2106 is enabled with a means for rewarding loyal customers 2108,therebyenticing new customers and building new customer/vendor relationships throughthe rewarding of valuable rewards-airtime minutes.