Billing process and system in a telecommunication network

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2007-03-20

2007-03-20

Millin, Vincent (Department: 3624)

Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co

Automated electrical financial or business practice or...

Accounting

C705S040000, C705S020000, C376S111000

Reexamination Certificate

active

09508422

ABSTRACT:
A billing method and billing system to determine usage fees which are charged to the user of a digital telecommunications network, whereby a usage fee charged for a connection is determined prior to establishing this connection from statistical characteristics of previous connections of the user, is described. Usage fees are determined from a dynamic client profile, derived from one or multiple random variables of previous connections of the user, which is stored in memory and rederived after each new customer connection. In a simple variant, the client profile contains a value proportional to the average price per connection or to the average duration of a connection of the user. The random variables used to derive the client profile include, for example, the connection duration, the time of day, the day of the week, and/or geographic characteristics of previous connections.

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