Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Zoned or cellular telephone system
Patent
1997-12-22
2000-05-16
Bost, Dwayne D.
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Zoned or cellular telephone system
455406, 455 121, H04Q 720
Patent
active
060648813
ABSTRACT:
A technique for gathering, correlating, sorting and distributing usage data records in a satellite based telecommunications system having multiple orbiting satellites (10, 12), multiple earth stations (16, 18) and multiple gateways (29, 42) for connecting with conventional public switched telephone networks (28, 30). Calls originated by or destined to a satellite user terminal (20, 24) trigger the generation of usage data records of various types to record the times of usage and other data, for each call, pertaining to various system resources, such as the earth stations, satellites, and radio connections between them. The data records for each call are correlated (58) and linked together to define a service usage record for the call. The service usage records are periodically pooled (60) and sorted (62) by subscriber service provider at a central site (36) and then distributed (66) to service providers for billing purposes. Use of a subscriber telephone number that includes a service provider identification field facilitates sorting of the service usage records by service provider, and providing a mobile satellite service identification field in the telephone number facilitates identification of data records pertaining to calls to or from subscribers to the service.
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Good William G.
Shea Patrick D.
Bost Dwayne D.
Gelin Jean A.
TRW Inc.
Yatsko Michael S.
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