Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Usage measurement
Reexamination Certificate
2006-06-27
2006-06-27
Corsaro, Nick (Department: 2683)
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Usage measurement
C379S114010, C379S114020, C379S114030, C379S114040, C379S114050, C379S114060, C379S114070, C379S114080, C379S114090, C379S121020, C379S121030, C379S121040, C379S121050, C379S121060
Reexamination Certificate
active
07068996
ABSTRACT:
A banded billing system for telecommunication service is disclosed. A carrier's billing system maintains in data storage a banded-pricing schedule that divides a continuum of minutes of use into a series of contiguous, mutually-exclusive minute-ranges and that specifies for each minutes-range a respective cost. At the end of a billing period, the billing system determines a number of minutes of telecommunication service used by a given subscriber during the billing period. The billing system then queries the banded-pricing schedule to determine which minute-range the number of minutes falls into, and to determine the cost specified by the banded-pricing schedule for that minute-range. The billing system then bills the determined cost to the subscriber, for use of the telecommunication service in the billing period.
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Corsaro Nick
Herrera Diego
Sprint Spectrum L.P.
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