System and method for real-time billing in a radio telecommunica

Details System and method for real-time billing in a radio telecommunica System and method for real-time billing in a radio telecommunica

1996-02-02

1998-07-21

Kuntz, Curtis

Telephonic communications

With usage measurement

Call charge metering or monitoring

379 58, 379 59, 379112, 379114, 379115, H04M 1500

Patent

active

057844429

ABSTRACT:
A system and method for providing real-time billing (RTB) information to mobile subscribers operating mobile stations in a radio telecommunications network and involved in a call in which at least one of the mobile subscribers is a RTB subscriber. The system is implemented entirely within the network and without modifying the mobile stations. The system comprises a plurality of mobile switching centers (MSCs), which collect toll ticketing (TT) records associated with calls processed by each MSC and associate the collected TT records with individual calls by the use of billing identification numbers. Each MSC tags TT records that are associated with real-time billing calls, and sends the tagged records to a local post processing unit for immediate processing. Real-time billing information is computed and electronically transmitted to RTB subscribers immediately after the completion of the call. Intersystem calls between MSCs, and call transfers between MSCs, require modification of specified IS-41 intersystem signaling messages and, in some cases, the use of a new IS-41 Immediate Billing Call message.

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