Real-time billing system for a call processing system

Telephonic communications – With usage measurement – Call charge metering or monitoring

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379 51, 379112, 379267, 379260, H04M 1510, H04M 1526, H04M 1500

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ABSTRACT:
A system and method for processing telephone calls and providing enhanced services is presented. The call processing system includes a billing system that processes billing information records for completed calls. In this type of processing, the billing system applies rate information stored in a rate file to the completed call parameters contained within the billing information record. Derived billing information is subsequently stored in a toll file. The billing system also uses rate information stored in the rate file to respond in real-time to rate quote requests. Upon receipt of a rate quote request from a requesting system, the billing system retrieves rate information from the rate file, calculates a cost/minute of a desired call, and returns a rate quote to the requesting system.

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