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Telecommunications > Radiotelephone System > Usage Measurement Usage MeasurementUsage Measurement 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.03/01/07 - 20070049243 - Method and system for monitoring operation of a mobile telecommunications network A method and system for monitoring operations of a mobile telecommunications network, which includes a multiplicity of different types of communications links for conveying communications data between end users, with each different type of communications link having a separate respective signaling information protocol, includes recording signaling information from each communications ... 02/22/07 - 20070042750 - Multiple access internet portal revenue sharing Multiple access internet portal billing systems are provided. A representative system, among others, includes a communication facility, a wireless internet server, and a transaction billing system. The communication facility includes a billing platform, and is operable to connect to a plurality of wireless device platforms through a mobile network, and ... 01/25/07 - 20070021101 - Methods and systems for triggerless prepaid sms screening and accounting in a signaling message routing node A prepaid SMS screening, accounting, and routing node performs prepaid SMS screening and accounting functions. When the prepaid SMS screening, accounting, and routing node receives an SMS message, it determines whether the originating subscriber is a ported subscriber attempting to access an SMSC from the donor network. If the originating ... 01/11/07 - 20070010231 - Connection and data application billing A server and related method embodiments for determining usage on a wireless network are described. The server includes a connection detector, a connection classifier connected with the connection detector, and a usage tracker connected with the connection classifier. The connection detector detects a connection from a mobile station. The connection ... 01/04/07 - 20070004380 - Methods and apparatus for charging a subscriber roaming in a mobile communication network The invention relates to a solution for charging a subscriber roaming in a mobile communication network. In the invention, a temporary user subscription is created for the roaming subscriber and an account balance is set for the temporary user subscription allowing the subscriber to use services attached to the temporary ... 12/28/06 - 20060293025 - Method and system for identifying mobile user cluster by call detail record A system and method for identifying a mobile user cluster by call detail records (CDRs) is provided. The system and method identifies at least one mobile user cluster according to a plurality of CDRs generated by a plurality of mobile users during a first period and a second period of ... 12/21/06 - 20060286963 - Controlling provision of services in a communications network A method of controlling provision of services from a network element to a subscriber comprising: defining a credit threshold representing the amount of credit remaining to the subscriber below which services will no longer be provided to that subscriber; responsive to a request for a first service from the subscriber, ... 12/21/06 - 20060286962 - System and method for providing communication services and intervening when necessary to provide service A method includes receiving a request for a communication service and determining if intervention is required to provide the communication service. The method also includes providing the communication service if no intervention is required. The method further includes performing an intervention in response to the request to gather information from ... 12/07/06 - 20060276171 - Billing system and method for micro-transactions Billing a customer through an intermediary billing system for a transaction by receiving, at the intermediary billing system, a transaction request associated with a transaction amount and a customer identification code, validating, in the intermediary billing system, the transaction request by determining whether the customer identification code corresponds to a ... 12/07/06 - 20060276170 - Method and system for traffic redirection for prepaid subscriber sessions in a wireless network A method and system for redirecting communication traffic of a prepaid subscriber of a wireless network includes determining when the subscriber has exhausted or nearly exhausted his usage quota, identifying a recharging facility to which the subscriber should be redirected to recharge his account balance, and redirecting the subscriber communication ... 12/07/06 - 20060276169 - Method for determining charges in real time for value-added services in a telecommunication network A method for determining charges in real time for value-added services in a telecommunication network, having an intelligent network structure, in which a caller selects a value-added service by dialing an associated destination number. This destination number is intercepted in an intelligent network element of the telecommunication network and is ... 11/30/06 - 20060270385 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling data transmission based on power cost Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for controlling data transmission based on power cost. A power cost per unit data associated with successfully sending data from a wireless mobile device to a remote endpoint in a communications network is determined. The determined power cost per unit data is ... 11/23/06 - 20060264199 - Hold time reporting in communication systems A communication system is disclosed that includes a communication network and a billing system. The communication network connects a call between a calling device and a destination. During the call, the destination puts the calling device on hold. The destination tracks the time the subscriber is on hold, and generates ... 11/16/06 - 20060258331 - Network billing According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, in a network having access to a billing system, of debiting a subscribers account for a charge-incurring use made by the subscriber of the network, comprising: in response to receiving a request to make a charge-incurring use ... 11/16/06 - 20060258330 - Local access to a mobile network A method for billing a subscriber to a cellular telephone service for a VoIP call made by the subscriber, the method including determining when a subscriber to a cellular telephone service places a telephone call to a remote device using a local device associated with the subscription, where the telephone ... 11/16/06 - 20060258329 - Method and system for enabling mobile users to manage calls A method for a user to manage calls includes provisioning the user with mobile minutes for calls within the same provider and usage minutes for usage calls. Upon a call between the user and another user it is determined whether the users have the same provider. The call is a ... 11/09/06 - 20060252409 - Electronic capture, storage and transmission of client data at point-of-sale An embodiment of a method for activating rate plans for mobile phone customers at a point-of-sale is disclosed. The method may include placing customer information into a central database and selecting a rate plan associated with a selected carrier. The method may further include accessing an activation system for the ... 10/05/06 - 20060223495 - Method and apparatus for monitoring usage patterns of a wireless device Apparatus and methods for monitoring usage patterns of a wireless device may include a usage monitoring and reporting module operable to monitor and log usage on a wireless device based on a received usage configuration. Further, based on the usage configuration, the wireless device may forward the log to another ... 09/28/06 - 20060217107 - Device billing agent Access devices using billing agents and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises capturing, at an access device, a communication to be transmitted from the access device. The method further comprises determining billing information about the communication and transmitting, from the wireless communications device, the billing information to ... 09/28/06 - 20060217106 - Prepaid wireless system and method A system and method for providing prepaid wireless services. One embodiment includes a mobile unit configured to maintain an amount of time units for which the mobile unit is authorized to utilize wireless services. The amount of time units is preferably prepaid for by the customer. The mobile unit prevents ... 09/21/06 - 20060211404 - Incident command system A portable electronic command board includes a computer for inputting incident data, a database for storing incident data locally within the computer and a wireless interface, connected to the computer, to connect the computer with another computer to replicate the database on the other computer to provide a collaborative workspace ... 09/21/06 - 20060211403 - Fixed wireless telephone device Methods and apparatus are disclosed for establishing a fixed wireless telephone service. A fixed wireless device includes a wireless device for establishing wireless connections to a wireless communications network that interfaces with a public switched telephone network. The fixed wireless device includes a connection that provides telephone service for an ... 08/24/06 - 20060189296 - Procedure for monitoring the usage of a broadcasted content Method for monitoring the usage of a service by a communication device coupled to a tamper resistant module, in particular a smart card. A said service is transmitted from a resource able to communicate with said communication device by way of a network. The service comprises a plurality of encrypted ... 08/17/06 - 20060183459 - Method and system for supporting wireless network services in a network through another network havig a different network technology The present invention provides a system and method for migrating a control of a wireless communication service provided to a mobile station (MS) in a first network depending on a first technology to a second network depending on a second technology. When receiving a request for the wireless communication service ... 08/10/06 - 20060178129 - Apparatus and method for selective call acceptance in a wireless network A system for providing automatic Selective Call Acceptance (SCA) service to a plurality of mobile stations capable of communicating with a wireless network is provided. The system includes a subscriber records database and an SCA controller. The subscriber records database is capable of storing a plurality of subscriber records. Each ... 08/03/06 - 20060172721 - Traffic shaping of cellular service consumption through delaying of service completion according to geographical-based pricing advantages Changes in user behavior of usage of wireless services from a mobile device are encouraged in order to effect shaping of traffic and utilization patterns among a plurality of cells within a rate plan region, wherein a discount indicator disposed in said mobile device is provided to notify a user ... 07/20/06 - 20060160523 - Method and system for providing supervisory control over wireless phone usage A system for controlling wireless phone usage enables a supervisor to establish user profiles for supervised users of wireless phones across a range of parameters which are stored in a user profile database. Such parameters may include one or more locations at which use of the wireless phone is restricted ... 07/13/06 - 20060154644 - Method and system for providing supervisory control over wireless phone usage A system for controlling wireless phone usage enables a supervisor to establish user profiles for supervised users of wireless phones across a range of parameters which are stored in a user profile database. Such parameters may include one or more locations at which use of the wireless phone is restricted ... 06/29/06 - 20060141982 - Technique for identifying status of users and status of subscribers' accounts in a communications system A communications system and method for handling a call to the system based on whether the caller is a subscriber. In one example, in an information assistance service communications system, if the user is a subscriber, the call may be directed to a first operator device for directory assistance, while ... 06/22/06 - 20060135119 - System and method of providing a geographic view of nodes in a wireless network A geographic view rendering tool receives geographic location data for nodes in a wireless network and renders a geographic view displaying the nodes at their corresponding geographic locations. The geographic view may be displayed overlaying a digital map. The geographic view may also display network information such as, for example, ... 06/22/06 - 20060135118 - Transferring between or within networks a telecommunication service to a user terminal A method is provided of providing a service to a user terminal. According to this method, a first network agrees with the user terminal to provide the service at a certain charge rate, then starts to provide the service. Subsequently at least one other network is invited by the first ... 06/22/06 - 20060135117 - Method for providing paying services, user identification device, and device for providing said services A method is provided for providing paying services in a radio communication network which operates, in particular, according to the GSM Standard “Global System Mobile” or the UMTS Standard “Universal Mobile Telecommunications System”,” via at least one radio communication terminal having a device for user identification, especially a “Subscriber Identity ... 05/04/06 - 20060094398 - Methods and apparatus for flexible communication device usage attribution A technique for providing flexible communication device usage attribution is provided. Identification information of a user of a communication device is received from the communication device at a primary service provider. It is determined if the user of the communication device is the owner of the communication device at the ... 04/06/06 - 20060073807 - Cellular pedometer A cellular phone contains a pedometer feature operating from a logging of repeated acceleration measurements, and captures body movements in a similar way as a stand alone pedometer. The acceleration measurements may be taken from a dedicated accelerometer, or from an accelerometer otherwise already integrated into the cell phone for ... 03/16/06 - 20060058006 - Charging efficiency A method for performing charging in a telecommunications system, comprising: storing at a subscriber information store subscription information including charging arrangement information indicative of the charging arrangement for a first communication terminal operating in the telecommunications system; providing by means of packet data interface apparatus packet data communication services to ... 03/02/06 - 20060046688 - Medium sensing histogram for wlan resource reporting The admissibility of periodic traffic to a wireless medium can be estimated using a measurement report format that includes a field indicating the number of bins for a predetermined channel of the wireless medium that were busy during a measurement period, and a field indicating the number of bins for ... 02/23/06 - 20060040641 - Traffic shaping of cellular service consumption through delaying of service completion according to geographical-based pricing advantages Changes in user behavior of usage of wireless services from a mobile device are encouraged in order to effect shaping of traffic and utilization patterns among a plurality of cells within a rate plan region, wherein a discount indicator disposed in said mobile device is provided to notify a user ... 02/09/06 - 20060030291 - Traffic shaping of cellular service consumption through modification of consumer behavior encouraged by cell-based pricing advantages Changes in wireless service user behavior are encouraged and produced to shape utilization patterns among cells within a rate plan region by using shaping rules which define potential discounts from a standard charge rate under certain cell-specific utilization conditions, analyzing the shaping rules and utilization statistics of a cell upon ... 02/02/06 - 20060025108 - Mobile information services Mobile communications devices display contextually relevant information based on the presence, status, and identification of a user. Lens templates control how the information is displayed and can be customized and designed for specific usage profiles. The lenses that are used can be updated at any time to accommodate changes in ... 02/02/06 - 20060025107 - Portable-terminal usage management method and portable terminal using the method In a portable-terminal usage management method, log distribution conditions are downloaded from an administrative function module to one of a plurality of portable terminals. One of a plurality of communication log storage parts is selected in accordance with the log distribution conditions whenever one of the plurality of portable terminals ... 12/29/05 - 20050287983 - System and method of managing ss7-monitored call information A system of managing call information is disclosed. The system comprises a call data record collection engine that non-intrusively monitors and collects data for calls routed using SS7 links coupled to telephone offices, a dynamic call record building engine to dynamically build call management records based on information retrieved by ... 12/29/05 - 20050287982 - Method and apparatus for billing for usage-based group communication between wireless devices A method and apparatus for billing for the usage of direct group communication services, such as push-to-talk services. A direct group communication service provider sets up an account for each direct communication service user whereby the user can establish a target group of wireless devices associated with his account. A ... 11/10/05 - 20050250470 - Method and apparatus for managing business cell phone usage A process and apparatus to remotely gather data about cellphone hardware and software configurations and usage. The system uses agents which are resident on the phones and which can be remotely launched by a data collection server by sending a message to a public IP address of the phone and ... 09/29/05 - 20050215232 - System and method for analyzing wireless communication data In general, a system and method for analyzing wireless communication records and for determining optimal wireless communication service plans is disclosed. A transceiver is configured to receive billing information associated with a subscriber of a telecommunications service under a current rate plan. A storage unit stores the billing information. A ... 09/29/05 - 20050215231 - Method and system for performing a commercial transaction by using a short message service terminal Method for performing a commercial transaction wherein a customer having a computer connected to a public network such as the Internet network and a SMS terminal is able to receive and send SMS messages over a telephone network and can order an article by using the computer to a commercial ... 08/25/05 - 20050186939 - Monitoring and management of roaming users Roaming usage management apparatus for managing roaming mobile devices connected to roaming networks. The management apparatus includes a data gathering application for gathering roaming activity data, a database application, which aggregates the records into activity logs of calls per roaming device, and an output unit which sends outputs to or ... 07/14/05 - 20050153682 - System and method for allowing user based application licensing across multiple wireless communications devices A system and method for a wireless service provider to provide activation of an application by a subscriber who has a plurality of wireless communications devices in a single subscription account. The subscriber can access the application from any one of the wireless communications devices, but only one activation at ... 07/07/05 - 20050148318 - Allocation of channelisation code based on cost function Telecommunication systems comprising base stations (1) and mobile terminals (11) generate channelization codes like Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor codes or OVSF codes defining channels used for communication between base stations (1) and mobile terminals (11) and calculate cost functions for these channelization codes. The base stations (1) are provided with ... 06/23/05 - 20050136887 - Communication assistance system and method A billing system is provided for a communication assistance system that provides access to information corresponding to a plurality of subscribers. The billing system and communication assistance system include a telephone switch for receiving calls from a plurality of requesters desiring access to the information corresponding to subscribers. 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