Telephonic communications – With usage measurement – Call charge metering or monitoring
Patent
1997-03-19
1999-11-16
Loomis, Paul
Telephonic communications
With usage measurement
Call charge metering or monitoring
379111, 379121, 379131, H04M 1500
Patent
active
059871083
ABSTRACT:
A method and system of telephone call processing that provides direct control of telephone usage based on customer established budgets. According to one aspect of the present invention, customer specific information including pricing data and budget parameters for a customer are stored, as is summary information relating to customer telephone usage. A call setup query is received from a network switch. A call setup response is generated based on the budget parameters and the summary information and the call setup response is transmitted to the network switch. In order to generate the stored summary information, a plurality of records are received wherein each record describes a telephone call. A priced call value for each call is determined using the record and the customer specific information. Summary information for the customer is determined using the record, the priced call values and the budget parameters. The summary information is then stored. According to another aspect of the present invention, a network switch receives a telephone call from a caller and transmits a call setup query identifying the caller to a billing analysis system. The network switch receives a call setup response indicating whether summary information of the caller exceeds at least one budgetary limit of the caller and determines whether to complete the call based on the call setup response.
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Jagadish Hosagrahar V.
Mumick Inderpal S.
AT&T Corp
Loomis Paul
Tieu Binh K.
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