Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Zoned or cellular telephone system
Patent
1997-02-21
2000-04-04
Urban, Edward F.
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Zoned or cellular telephone system
455406, H04Q 720
Patent
active
060471794
ABSTRACT:
Systems and methods for exchanging information, and particularly debit information, between a visited and a home wireless network with respect to a wireless unit operating in the visited network. A translator is provided which includes a receiver for receiving data relating to the unit from the visited network, a translator application for translating and/or formatting the data into a standard inter-network communications message, and a transmitter for transmitting the standard message to the home network. The translator may receive data from a debit platform of the visited network. The translator may format the data into the standard message, preferably an IS-41 message. This standard message may be received by a translator at the home network. The home translator may extract the data from the standard message, translate the data and provide the data to the debit platform of the home network. After the home debit platform determines the authorization information with respect to the unit, the home translator may translate and format the authorization information into a standard inter-network communications response message, preferably, an IS-41 response message. The home translator transmits this standard response message to the visited network, where the visited translator may receive the response message, extract the authorization information, translate this information and then to provide the authorization information to the visited debit platform.
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BellSouth Intellectua Property Corporation
Gesesse Tilahun
Urban Edward F.
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