Telephonic communications – With usage measurement – Call charge metering or monitoring
Reexamination Certificate
2007-01-02
2007-01-02
Tran, Quoc (Department: 2643)
Telephonic communications
With usage measurement
Call charge metering or monitoring
C379S114030, C379S221010, C379S221020, C455S445000, C455S433000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10640820
ABSTRACT:
Selecting the optimum service provider for each telephone call made so as to minimize the cost of each call. Each of the service providers is likely to be charging fees for calls at different rates determined by the measures of different sets of predetermined calling conditions that the provider sets up. An implementation for initiating a telephone call from the calling station to a selected receiving station, determining the measures of the predetermined calling conditions, determining the optimum service provider charging the minimum fee for the telephone call based on the determined measures of said service provider's set of predetermined calling conditions and routing the initiated telephone call to said receiving station through said optimum service provider.
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Kobrosly Walid M.
Malik Nadeem
Saha Avijit
International Business Machines - Corporation
Kraft Jerry B.
McBurney Mark E.
Tran Quoc
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