Process for the acceptance of a virtual prepaid card use request permitting the reuse of its serial number

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PATENT NO 5991413
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08873653

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The present invention relates to a process for accepting a request for use of a virtual prepaid card involving the following stages: a user of a virtual prepaid card is connected to a server containing a data base, particularly version numbers, which are incremented when the corresponding cards are empty or obsolete, said user is authenticated with the server by communicating thereto an authentication sequence and a version number, said server supplies these numbers to a security processor having the capacity to recalculate the authentication sequence and check the validity thereof, in the case of the validity thereof, the processor transmits to the server a consumption authorization, after receiving said authorization the server gives agreement to the use request, within the limits of the credit remaining on the card and the validity date of the latter.

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FRANCE TELECOM75015 PARIS

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Arditti, David Clamart, FR 19 606
Boulot, Olivier Versailles, FR 1 307
Campana, Mireille Clamart, FR 9 622
Milano, Sophie Paris, FR 1 307

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