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Telephonic Communications > With Usage Measurement (e.g., Call Or Traffic Register) > Call Charge Metering Or Monitoring > Billing Computing Software Or Program

Billing Computing Software Or Program

Billing Computing Software Or Program patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

08/30/07 - 20070201642 - Configurable rating system for a telecommunications service provider
A configurable rating system provides the flexibility to define rating tariffs based on any number of input parameters, such as a service identifier, origin number, destination number, event type, or other parameter. At the same time, the configurable rating system simplifies the definition, debugging, and assignment of rating parameters which ...

08/30/07 - 20070201641 - Information verification in a telecommunications network
A method and apparatus for bill verification in a communication and computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes a user device (12, 14, 16) and a bill verification device (26). The user device independently generates user data records (36) that describe usage units of a service and transmits (42) the ...

07/19/07 - 20070165804 - Systems and methods to convert a free call to a fee-based call
A method and system for converting a free call to a fee-based call are disclosed. According to an embodiment of the invention, an automated system establishes a connection between a first entity and a second entity. After the connection has been established, the system monitors the connection to determine if ...

07/19/07 - 20070165803 - Method for processing the re-authorisation based on the charging of the packet data flow
The present invention discloses a method for handling re-authorization in packet data flow based charging. The method includes: TPF monitoring re-authorization triggers; and requesting re-authorization of the credit in OCS when a re-authorization trigger is detected. In accordance with the method provided by the present invention, TPF pre-configuring re-authorization triggers, ...

07/19/07 - 20070165801 - System and method for intelligent data extraction for telecommunications invoices
A system, method and computer program product for extracting information from a telecommunications invoice is provided. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method may include: receiving a telecommunications invoice data stream in a first data format; analyzing the telecommunications invoice data stream to determine the first ...

07/12/07 - 20070160183 - Charging control system for group communication sessions
The invention relates to a system for controlling communication between user terminals using a telecommunications network. One embodiment includes an interface between a real-time charging control system for controlling usage of network resources during such usage and a group communications control node which is capable of controlling group communications sessions. ...

06/07/07 - 20070127649 - Method and system for detecting a change in at least on telecommunication rate plan
A call schedule is received that includes a plurality of sample calls to be made by an automated calling station. The plurality of sample calls are automatically placed on the network using the automated calling station. At least one final billing record corresponding to the at least one completed sample ...

06/07/07 - 20070127648 - Method and system for creating a billing record with a called party's name
A method and system are provided for creating a billing record with a called party's name. Providing the called party's name on the billing record facilitates the calling party's review of the billing record by reducing the amount of time and effort needed to determine the identity of the called ...

03/29/07 - 20070071196 - Methods and systems for billing and routing local toll-free communications
A system routes local toll-free communications to a toll-free communications address via local switches and/or local network onto interconnecting local providers with local access settlement rates, thereby allowing a local rather than toll cost structure of the communication. When an originating communications address is identified as an LCA, intraLATA, or ...

03/01/07 - 20070047706 - Methods, systems, and storage mediums for providing call routing services
Methods, systems, and storage mediums for providing call routing services are provided. The method includes prompting a caller to select from options provided via a call routing service plan. The options are provided for enabling the caller to review existing call routing account information and modifying existing call routing account ...

03/01/07 - 20070047705 - Method and computer program product for classification and linking data records, and a classification system
This publication discloses a method for classifying and selecting records. This publication also discloses a classification and selection system according to the invention and a computer program product for classifying and selecting records. In the method according to the invention, a classification structure corresponding to a read field is selected ...

02/01/07 - 20070025533 - Method and apparatus for automated billing and crediting of customer accounts
An account management system (100) is coupled to a service center (101) serving a number of customers (108). The account management system has a communications interface (110), a memory (104), and a controller (102). The controller is programmed to monitor (202) service outages of the service center, detect (204) a ...

07/13/06 - 20060153351 - Communication system control method
A method of controlling the operation of a communication system is described, where the system comprises a first entity 2 for sending a first data object 21 to a terminal device 4 and a second entity 3 for sending a second data object to the terminal device at the request ...

06/29/06 - 20060140368 - Method and system for determining maximum transactions within a communications network
A call-transaction forecasting tool taking the form of a computer-implemented method and medium in some embodiments is provided for retrieving, aggregating, sorting, and determining one or more maximum transactions within a communications network. The tool automates the process of manually extracting and analyzing call transactions pertaining to call-duration, call volume, ...

12/29/05 - 20050286691 - Ad ringer
A method and system are provided for playing an advertisement to a telephone subscriber prior to call completion in a telecommunications network. A subscriber telephone line is provisioned to provide an advertisement. A switch in the telecommunications network detects an off-hook condition at the subscriber's telephone and interprets the digits ...



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