Telephone billing with customized billing information

Details Telephone billing with customized billing information Telephone billing with customized billing information

1997-05-01

1999-11-09

Kuntz, Curtis A.

Telephonic communications

With usage measurement

Call charge metering or monitoring

379114, 379112, 379127, H04M 1500

Patent

active

059828641

ABSTRACT:
A method and system for automatically generating telephone bills that include customer defined or requested billing information. Customer specific data including billing parameters for a customer is stored. A record describing a telephone call between the customer and a party is generated at a network switch. The record is received at a billing analysis system, the billing information relating to the party is determined using the record and at least one billing parameter and a telephone bill for the customer including billing information relating to the party is generated. In one embodiment of the present invention, customer specific data entries including at least one billing parameter and customer information are stored for each of a plurality of a customers and a telephone bill for the first customer including billing information relating to the second customer is generated based on a billing parameter for the first customer and customer information for the second customer. In another embodiment of the present invention, customer specific data including at least one billing parameter and caller information is stored for a customer and a telephone bill for the customer including billing information relating to the caller is generated based on a billing parameter and the caller information.

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