Telephonic communications – With usage measurement – Call charge metering or monitoring
Patent
1996-03-15
1999-08-10
Shankar, Vijay
Telephonic communications
With usage measurement
Call charge metering or monitoring
379133, H04M 1500
Patent
active
059370459
ABSTRACT:
Telephone call fee notifying system and apparatus for informing a calling subscriber of a fee for telephoning a destination before talking starts. When the calling subscriber dials a special number, this special number is recognized by a charging information request recognizing unit, a telephone call fee for a connection destination is calculated in response to subsequently transmitted dialing by means of a charging calculation unit and a calculated telephone call fee is informed to the calling subscriber in the form of a speech by means of a charging information speech outputting unit. Listening to the speech, the calling subscriber decides whether a circuit connection is to be done or not and when the circuit connection is determined, an operation therefor is carried out to establish a connection to the desired connection destination.
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Atsuta Hiromi
Ikeda Saburou
Mizobe Masatoshi
Mori Mariko
Sato Hiroshi
NEC Corporation
Shankar Vijay
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