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September 04, 2007

 


SMS Payments on Mobile, Google's patent, and Social MVNO for Italy

Google in February 2006 filed a patent with the US Patent office describing a text message system, also referred to as “GPay” throughout the document. The patent was published last Thursday, describing an online payment system reminiscent of PayPal and Google Checkout, but mobile-enabled. The abstract says the patent includes:

  • A server receiving an SMS from a payer containing a payment request for a specific amount (sent by some independent device),
  • parsing the SMS to find out what value the payer account should be debited for, and
  • crediting the payee account (independent of the server system) with that specified amount.
 
Some logical schemes and more details is available here for example- http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-04-n78.html (from where I've copies/pasted the content).
 
 
Want my personal opinion? I am REALLY SORRY that Google has become some time ago just another M$ :(
 
For the Payment-Request-via-SMS: It remains me the days when M$ was trying to patent Video-on-Demand (VoD), in-line Ads on VoD, some User- Generated- Content (UGC), and something else that belongs to HUMANS, not corporations :)
 
and there is another "what else can I say":
- it may sound funny to somebody, but I think there is a "bottleneck" in this patent/protection :). Although I do not care too much about such a general and quite stupid (on my opinion) protection of such "general algorithms" (that will be used in any case by the other people), I'm glad to see this "bottleneck" :lol:
 
It's also the approach that is gonna be used by the SOCIAL MVNO project.
Look- Social means not only the interaction between  peers of a Network, it's for sure an interaction of each peer with the the real-world/ environment services. And if so- why not,- the payment services and systems as well!
 
So we believe that the Mobile Phone must become the real powerful gateway to the world of VAS for Mobile Networks, real-world services (that could be translated to VAS with help of MVNO.it's VAS-to-Mobile platform), and also means of payment.
 
P.S. It's still needed to wait for a  couple of days until the first official presentation of the MVNO.it and SOCIAL MVNO projects. I'll keep you posted!
 
  

Keywords: Google SMS payment patent, MVNO, MVNO.it, Microsoft, Mobile VAS, SMS, SMS payment, SMS payment patent, Social Communication 2.0, Social Communication Mobile 2.0, Social MVNO, UGC, VAS, VoD, mobile 2.0, mobile Web, Google

Posted by andrey.golub at 05:44 | |


Comments

  1. I agree with you!
    Qui negli states stanno iniziando a non sopportare + l'atteggiamento monopolizzatore di Google. Iniziano battaglie legali. E se leggi i giornali economici, molti degli articoli mettono Google sotto una cattiva luce. Ti aggiungerei quasi che questo sta facendo un grosso favore in termini di immagine a Microsoft.

    Posted by Luca Zambrelli on Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 at 07:21

  2. Beh, mettiamola in altro modo. Se Google non sfrutta i soldi che sta facendo per estendere il range di servizi che offre (spesso gratuitamente), finirà per rimanere in una nicchia che si eroderà sempre più attaccata da chi non ha questi scrupoli di egemonismo.
    Io vedo una serie di servizi gratuiti e di qualità (es. Google apps), vedo sponsorizzazioni di progetti Open Source, (vedi Google Summer of code), vedo un'immagine sempre orientata all'innovazione (visto AJAXwindows?) all'ambiente (visto i pannelli solari sul Google Campus?) ecc.
    Certo che quando le dimensioni crescono spaventano sempre qualcuno che finirà per presentare le sue lamentele. Io però rimango un Google fan.

    Posted by Nicola Bertellini on Thursday, September 13th, 2007 at 12:23

  3. Ciao Nicola, certo, hai ragione. sai come dicono- ogni persona può avere un suo "Dio".

    Anche tu hai diritto di credere in qualsiasi cosa :)

    Posted by Andrey Golub on Thursday, September 13th, 2007 at 12:33

  4. Sono un fan non un fedele :-)
    Io penso che Google abbia comunque un'ottima immagine e che condivida molto con la comunità internet, compresi i risultati economici (Adwords)
    Il vero problema è che a livello di pubblicità online sta raggiungendo livelli di penetrazione a livello di M$ e l'invidia è una brutta bestia.
    Nel mercato globale chiunque voglia assicurarsi la sopravvivenza, deve provare a coprire in maniera inattaccabile un determinato ambito.
    Fino a che i governi non imporranno pratiche anti-monopolistiche vere, questa copertura tenderà inevitabilmente al 100%. E' una legge economica.

    Posted by Nicola Bertellini on Thursday, September 13th, 2007 at 15:51

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