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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7653187 | Method and system for presenting billing information according to a customer-defined hierarchal structure A service for presenting billing information to a customer according to a hierarchal structure defined by the customer. The customer assigns telephone numbers to company units and defines how each of the units relate to each other in the hierarchal structure. The bi... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7369651 | System and method for creating and accessing outgoing telephone call log Outgoing call log data associated with a call from a subscriber's terminal is provided by a system including a switch, which receives the call from the subscriber's terminal and launches a query in response to the call, and a service controller, which receives the q... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366495 | Prepaid reservation-based rating system A billing system comprising servers, routers, and processors programmed to provide reservation based prepaid billing is disclosed. The billing system is also programmed to concurrently process multiple billing events on a single, prepaid subscriber account. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7319414 | Secure notification messaging systems and methods using authentication indicia Systems and methods are disclosed for notification or messaging systems that give confidence to the notification-receiving party that a notification concerning the travel status of a mobile thing is from a proper authorized source. One representative method, among o... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7260195 | Call management service A system and method that enables a telecommunications consumer to define groups to be included in a monthly bill, and then periodically generate a bill in accordance with the consumer's specifications. In one embodiment, the invention includes a plurality of portabl... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7203575 | Decentralized autonomous control for complex fluid distribution systems A control system for a complex distribution network uses autonomous control units that may bid among themselves to reconfigure the distribution network in light of fluctuation demand or failures. The autonomous control units may also be enlisted to detect and isolat... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7191058 | Notification systems and methods enabling user entry of notification trigger information based upon monitored mobile vehicle location A vehicle monitoring and notification system includes a mapping application and a data manager. The mapping application receives data identifying a particular location and automatically translates this data into a set of location values. The mapping application then... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187760 | System and method for creating and accessing outgoing telephone call log Outgoing call log data associated with a call from a subscriber's terminal is provided by a system including a switch, which receives the call from the subscriber's terminal and launches a query in response to the call, and a service controller, which receives the q... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7155404 | Mechanized tax worksheet A system and method for verifying charges on a customer bill includes a computers for downloading, from a mainframe computer, to a local server billing data associated with a customer account, populating a database with a portion of the billing data, performing pre-... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154998 | Method and system for presenting billing information according to a customer-defined hierarchal structure A service for presenting billing information to a customer according to a hierarchal structure defined by the customer. The customer assigns telephone numbers to company units and defines how each of the units relate to each other in the hierarchal structure. The bi... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152200 | Internet-based database report writer and customer data management system A database report writer and customer data management system and method provides a GUI type interface to allow users convenient on-line access, such as via the Internet, to customer billing and inventory data in the form of an on-line report. The present invention f... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149292 | System and method for creating a billing record with a called party's name A method and system are provided for creating a billing record with a called party's name. Providing the called party's name on the billing record facilitates the calling party's review of the billing record by reducing the amount of time and effort needed to determ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7119716 | Response systems and methods for notification systems for modifying future notifications Response systems and methods are disclosed for communications in connection with a computer-based notification system and a personal communications device (e.g., telephone, pager, computer, PDA, etc.) associated with a party. One such representative response method,... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117202 | System and method for computer based searches using genetic algorithms A system for conducting a computer based search that includes a bidding bulletin board to post a user search query from a user, an agent that submits a bid to the bidding bulletin board in response to the query, where the agent is associated with a search result, an... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113110 | Stop list generation systems and methods based upon tracked PCD's and responses from notified PCD's Systems and methods are disclosed for automated notification systems. A representative method, among others, can be summarized by the following steps: monitoring travel data associated with a first personal communications device (PCD); initiating a notification comm... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7106840 | Method and system for generating a billing record A transaction record is received including transaction data corresponding to at least one telephone call placed by a subscriber. The transaction data is processed by a plurality of rate plans, each rate plan generating a toll amount corresponding to the telephone ca... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7089107 | System and method for an advance notification system for monitoring and reporting proximity of a vehicle Generally, the present invention monitors and communicates travel data transmitted from vehicles being monitored by the system to users requesting travel information on a particular vehicle. A travel data storage unit receives and stores the travel data. When a user... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7064681 | Response systems and methods for notification systems Response systems and methods are disclosed for communications in connection with an automated computer-based notification system. One representative response method, among others, can be summarized by the following steps: initiating a notification communication to a... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7030781 | Notification system and method that informs a party of vehicle delay An advance notification system and method notifies passengers of the impending arrival of a transportation vehicle, for example, a school bus, at a particular vehicle stop. The system generally includes an on-board vehicle control unit for each vehicle and a base st... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6965668 | Method and system for presenting billing information according to a customer-defined hierarchal structure A service for presenting billing information to a customer according to a hierarchal structure defined by the customer. The customer assigns telephone numbers to company units and defines how each of the units relate to each other in the hierarchal structure. The bi... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6947535 | Service control in a telecommunications network The invention relates to service control in a telecommunications network which includes customer terminals (CT) and servers (SP) for offering services to the customers. The service is provided by transmitting information to the customer terminal, and the customer pa... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6920208 | Call tracker A method is provided for subscriber-related call log information for a plurality of distributed services from a remotely accessible consolidating server. The distributed services include at least a plain old telephone service, a wireless service, and a long distance... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6904137 | System and method for creating and accessing outgoing telephone call log A system and a method store, display and report outgoing call log data associated with telephone calls from a subscriber's telephone. The system includes a switch in one network that receives a telephone call from the subscriber's telephone and launches a query in r... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6904359 | Notification systems and methods with user-definable notifications based upon occurance of events Methods and systems are disclosed for a vehicle status reporting system for allowing a user to define when a user will receive a vehicle status report about the status of a mobile vehicle, in relation to a location, for establishing a communication link between the ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6904276 | Apparatus and method for managing call billing records An apparatus is provided for managing call billing records of communications network users. The apparatus includes a communications network, a gateway, a communications link, and a network processor. The communications network is operative to carry user calls. The g... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6868147 | System and method for creating a billing record with a called party's name A method and system are provided for creating a billing record with a called party's name. Providing the called party's name on the billing record facilitates the calling party's review of the billing record by reducing the amount of time and effort needed to determ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6847710 | Device for collecting, processing, working, and managing call details and method for collecting, processing, working, and managing call details A gathering apparatus gathers CDRs from a CDR accumulating apparatus at the start time of a cycle operation, and transmits them to a processing apparatus. If the gathering of CDRs is not finished within a predetermined period of the cycle operation, a job starting f... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6831968 | Outputting of reports generated by a telephone exchange The present invention relates to processing the data produced by a telephone exchange, the transfer of the data through a transfer medium to a receiving equipment, and outputting of the processed data in the receiving equipment on a screen or paper. The data are pro... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6823053 | Method and system for displaying customer information According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for displaying information is provided. The method includes providing an identity information section, a product information section, and a notes section. The method also includes identifying a plurality of cate... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6757371 | Method for divisional billing and device thereof The present invention relates to a method for billing and a device thereof and more particularly relates to the method and the device for dividing the monthly charges of each subscriber into a personal-use portion and a business-use portion according to the predeter... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6748062 | Method and system for generating a billing record A transaction record is received including transaction data corresponding to at least one telephone call placed by a subscriber. The transaction data is processed by a plurality of rate plans, each rate plan generating a toll amount corresponding to the telephone ca... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6639975 | Interactive billing control system An apparatus and method are provided for controlling access to a telecommunications and messaging services system from a server computer that has a web browser installed. The apparatus includes a billing server that maintains a database of telecommunicati... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6584452 | Communication satellite resource trading techniques Techniques for trading satellite communication resources include a net work operations controller 80 for receiving an offer and analyzing bids in response to the offer. The network operations controller at least partially revises a downlink schedule of re... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6510149 | Data carrier including a circuit with time slot determination means and time slot fixation means A data carrier (2) can communicate with a station (1) during a respective time slot (TS) within successively generated time slot sequences (TSS), the data carrier (2) being provided with time slot fixation means (83) by means of which fixation means (83) ... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6498840 | Method and system for generating a billing record A transaction record is received including transaction data corresponding to at least one telephone call placed by a subscriber. The transaction data is processed by a plurality of rate plans, each rate plan generating a toll amount corresponding to the t... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6493437 | Advertising-subsidized PC-telephony A system subsidizes telephone calls over a network. The system includes a service provider 120 that establishes a telephone call between a calling party terminal 130 and a called party terminal 140 over the network 110. During the telephone call, the serv... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6459779 | System and method for creating a billing record with a called party's name A method and system are provided for creating a billing record with a called party's name. Providing the called party's name on the billing record facilitates the calling party's review of the billing record by reducing the amount of time and effort neede... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6442269 | Method and apparatus for integrating business data and transaction data in a transaction processing environment A method and apparatus for integrating business data and transaction data in a transaction processing environment comprises a telephone call processing system including a call distribution device connected to several agent devices through one type of comm... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6418207 | Method and system for detecting a change in at least one telecommunication rate plan A call schedule is received that includes a plurality of sample calls to be made by an automated calling station. The plurality of sample calls are automatically placed on the network using the automated calling station. At least one final billing record ... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6411681 | Traffic track measurements for analysis of network troubles A monitoring system captures and processes messages from SS7 links, to compile call detail records (CDRs) for all interoffice call attempts. The CDRs are uploaded into a relational database. A data preparation operation utilizes external information to en... | 06/25/2002 |
