Telephone line aggregated billing

Details Telephone line aggregated billing Telephone line aggregated billing

1997-05-01

1999-06-22

Loomis, Paul

Telephonic communications

With usage measurement

Call charge metering or monitoring

379115, 379119, H04M 1500

Patent

active

059150068

ABSTRACT:
A method and system in which calls made on two or more phone lines of a customer are aggregated for billing and discount billing plans to which the customer subscribes are applied to the aggregated phone usage of the customer. In order to price a call made over a network by a customer of the network, information specifying a billing plan of the customer and information specifying a plurality of telephone lines to which the billing plan applies are stored. A call made from one of the plurality of telephone lines is received at a network switch and record that describes the call is generated. The record is received at a billing analysis system and a priced call value for the call is determined based on the record and the information specifying the customer billing plan. The record that describes the call comprises an identifier of the telephone line from which the call was made and priced call value for the call is determined by accessing the information specifying the customer billing plan using the identifier in the received record.

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