Interchange Gateway for Social Network Transaction Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for mobile communications lack efficient methods to verify and process requests for online transactions, particularly in social networking contexts, where secure and convenient payment solutions across different mobile carriers and protocols are needed.
Innovation Solution
A system that includes a data storage facility associating user phone numbers with social networking identities, an interchange with a common format processor and converters to interface with various controllers, allowing for secure and convenient online transactions by confirming requests through mobile phones and processing payments via telecommunication carriers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If mobile carriers use different protocols and formats for SMS delivery, then each carrier can optimize its own system, but interoperability between carriers becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary component (gateway or message router) that sits between mobile carriers with different protocols. This intermediary translates messages between various carrier-specific formats and a universal internal format, enabling interoperability without requiring each carrier to adapt its core system. The intermediary acts as a mediator that handles protocol conversion, resolving the contradiction between maintaining carrier-specific optimizations and achieving cross-carrier compatibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a universal message format and standardized interface that can handle multiple carrier protocols simultaneously. The message routing component is designed with multi-functionality to support various SMS protocols (SMPP, HTTP, SMTP, etc.) through a single unified architecture, allowing the system to work with different carriers without requiring separate specialized systems for each.
2Adaptability or versatility
If SMS messages are routed through multiple intermediaries (gateways and SMSC), then message delivery can be achieved across different carriers, but delivery time and message latency increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary routing decisions and message format conversions before messages enter the multi-carrier delivery network. By pre-processing messages and determining the optimal delivery path in advance, the system reduces the number of intermediate stops and conversions required during actual delivery, thereby minimizing latency while still achieving cross-carrier delivery capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates optimized copies of messages in universal format at the routing layer, allowing original carrier-specific messages to be replicated and forwarded through the most efficient path without requiring multiple sequential conversions. This copying approach parallelizes the delivery process and reduces the time spent on repeated format transformations across multiple intermediaries.
3Reliability
If aggregators rely on SMSC for message delivery, then delivery reliability is improved, but aggregators cannot deliver messages directly and must interface with multiple SMSC systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates multiple SMSC interface connections into a single unified messaging platform. Instead of managing separate interfaces to multiple SMSC systems, the system merges these connections through a centralized router that handles all carrier communications through standardized protocols, reducing interface management complexity while maintaining reliable delivery through the established SMSC infrastructure.
4Reliability
If social networking sites implement their own transaction verification systems, then transaction security is improved, but integration with mobile payment systems becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary payment gateway that bridges social networking platforms and mobile carrier billing systems. This intermediary handles the complex verification and authentication processes, allowing social networking sites to maintain secure transaction verification without directly integrating with multiple mobile payment systems. The gateway manages the complexity of interfacing with different carrier protocols while providing a simplified interface to the social networking platform.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods to authenticate and process requests received via social networking websites. In one aspect, a system includes a data storage facility to store data associating a first phone number of a user with an identification of the user in a social networking website; and an interchange coupled with the data storage facility. The interchange includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of controllers of mobile communications. The converters communicate with the controllers in different formats and with the common format processor in a common format. The common format processor receives a request including the identification of the user, identifies the first phone number of the user based on the data stored on the data storage facility, and uses the converters to communicate with a mobile phone at the first phone number to confirm the request.