Patent
1984-02-02
1985-12-17
George, Keith E.
H04M 1532
Patent
active
045594155
ABSTRACT:
A charging process for selling information via a telephone network. A data bank can be connected via said network with calling subscribers. This data bank has a telephone number and a device for supplying a spoken message. The data bank supplies its message to any calling subscriber as of the time at which a call from said subscriber is received, and the duration of the message supplied by the data bank is fixed. A number is allocated which, for the telephone network, is considered to correspond to a time-based charge based on a certain charge band, this number also implying a routing of the call via time-based charging means. The fixed duration of the message and the charge band are chosen in such a way that the total of the charge charged to the calling subscriber for receiving the complete message contains an extra charge of at least one unit compared with the charge which would have been made to him for a call of the same duration with a subscriber belonging to the same local distribution area as the data bank. The number of calls to which the data bank has replied are counted and the number of extra charges charged is deducted therefrom.
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Bernard Alain
Dupraz Didier
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