Systems and methods for conducting transactions with a customer using text messages

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9911115
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15471736

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The illustrative embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for conducting transactions with a customer using text messages. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first text message from a mobile communication device associated with a customer. The first text message includes a request from the customer to receive one or more text messages from a vendor. The method also includes adding the customer to a set of consenting customers in a customer database in response to receiving the first text message. The set of consenting customer including customers that consent to receiving text messages from the vendor. The method also includes sending a second text message to the mobile communication device. The second text message is associated with a service offered by the vendor.

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WILMINGTON TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS THE SUCCESSOR COLLATERAL AGENT1100 NORTH MARKET STREET ATTENTION JOSEPH B FEIL WILMINGTON DE 19801

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Darby, Kenneth A Papillion, US 13 42
Frazier, James Omaha, US 7 30
Gass, Steven Omaha, US 6 23
Hendren, Chad David Omaha, US 25 104
Stetich, Sandra Omaha, US 5 19

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