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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7577241 | Network support for call detail record suppression A method is provided for supporting a call record suppression feature in a telecommunications network (30). The method includes: handling a call for an end user terminal (10) served by a facility (20) of the telecommunications network (30... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7388948 | AMA access over local audit analysis (AAOLA) A method of evaluating automatic message accounting records associated with telephony calls that originate at a local exchange carrier telephony office and that are routed over an inter-exchange carrier telephony facility is disclosed. The method comprises collectin... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7372949 | System and method for call redirect detection and treatment Disclosed are systems and methods in which call intelligence, such as may be disposed in communication with signaling systems utilized in controlling calls, is used to provide information for making determinations with respect to the treatment of calls. Call intelli... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366289 | Domestic origination to international termination country set logic A method and device for preventing fraud in international calls in a long-distance telecommunications system, where selected customers can avoid fraud control blocks and greater granularity is achieved in blocking international destinations. In the method and device... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7353014 | Universal portable unit In general, a portable unit and method are described for storing user information for subsequent recovering. For one embodiment, the portable unit comprises a casing, an antenna and logic employed within the casing. The logic may comprise a wireless transceiver coup... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7158622 | Self-learning real-time prioritization of telecommunication fraud control actions A predictive model system is used to detect telecommunications fraud. Call records (CDRs) provided by telephone companies are evaluated against specified rules. If one or more rules are matched, the system generates an alert. Pending alerts for a customer form a cas... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7142651 | Fraud detection in a distributed telecommunications networks Methods, apparatuses and systems for detecting a fraud event on a distributed network are disclosed. A fraud event is indicated if data analysis reveals that there is a lack of consistency between elements in the network. ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7133509 | Method and system for charging a set activation fee for pay telephone usage A set activation fee pay telephone permits a telephone customer to place a telephone call from a pay telephone if the customer presents valid billing information, and charges the customer a fixed fee for the call, plus any other applicable network charges. The set a... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7120237 | Systems and methods for collect call processing A method of processing a collect call. The method includes receiving a request for a collect call from a calling party and transmitting information required pursuant to a detariffing order to a called party. ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7079635 | Domestic origination to international termination country set logic A method and device for preventing fraud in international calls in a long-distance telecommunications system, where selected customers can avoid fraud control blocks and greater granularity is achieved in blocking international destinations. In the method and device... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7042992 | Systems and methods for account establishment and transaction management using interrupt messaging Disclosed are systems and methods which provide techniques providing account setup, management and transaction authorization determinations in real-time using transaction interrupt messaging. Embodiments preferably take into consideration the quality of one or more ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7035387 | Methods and systems for detecting and mitigating intrusion events in a communications network Methods and systems for detecting intrusion events, such as war dialing events are disclosed. According to one method, signaling messages associated with calls being made or attempted in a telecommunications network are analyzed. Based on the signaling messages, it ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7013002 | Credit card collect call system and method A method of providing collect call service includes receiving a request for a collect call from a calling party (18). A selected number to call is received. A call is placed to a receiving party (20). Agreeability of the receiving party (20) to ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6980637 | Service and information management system for a telecommunications network A system for service control and operations for a telecommunications network. In particular, an architecture and method for a service control and operations element system. The system communicates with a plurality of interconnected telecommunications network element... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6947532 | Fraud detection based on call attempt velocity on originating number A method of identifying fraud in a telecommunications system. The method includes receiving data related to a current call placed from an originating automatic number indicator (ANI), where the received data includes at least the originating ANI, a billing number an... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6937711 | System and method for issuing customer credits for information assistance services In a system for providing customers with information assistance services, records are generated to register service events. In prior art, all of the records are transmitted to a billing platform for billing customers for the services. When a customer requests credit... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6931110 | System and method for implementing calling card security and secured calling card A computer implemented method, computer program product and system are provided for implementing calling card security. A telephone call request is received from a calling card user. A plurality of predefined options is checked to identify user selected options for ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6904136 | Secure method of payment A process for a transfer of funds for payment for goods and/or services in which a purchaser of the goods and/or services requests that a financial services organization generate a financial certificate in an amount equal to the payment. The requester receives the r... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6850606 | Self-learning real-time prioritization of telecommunication fraud control actions A predictive model system is used to detect telecommunications fraud. Call records (CDRs) provided by telephone companies are evaluated against specified rules. If one or more rules are matched, the system generates an alert. Pending alerts for a customer form a cas... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6836540 | Systems and methods for offering a service to a party associated with a blocked call In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method of offering a service to a user. The method comprises receiving a dialed number from a request to initiate a collect telephone call from an origination source; processing the dialed number to determine... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6819751 | Method of forwarding data from a network element and an arrangement for uitilizing data from a network element This invention relates to switching and operational support systems in the area of general telecommunications and more particularly, to a new type of solution for forwarding data from a network element and to a new type of solution for utilizing data from a network ... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6801606 | Fraud monitoring system In order to detect fraudulent or potentially fraudulent usage of a telecommunications network, each call connected by way of one of the digital main switching units of the network (3a to 3c) has an associated billing record transferred to... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6785372 | Method and apparatus for providing prepaid local telephone services in metered states A method and apparatus for providing prepaid local telephone services is provided. The method includes determining if a subscriber is making a qualified local telephone call, checking to see if a maximum number of calls have been made by the subscriber and decrement... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6763098 | Call blocking based on call properties Non-toll calls originating from payphones may be blocked. An intelligent node is provided within the telecommunications network to identify whether a non-toll call originated from a payphone. The intelligent node may apply a number of different criteria to determine... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6697469 | Method and system for implementing calling-party-pays telecommunication services A calling-party-pays gateway operative for billing a surcharge for a telecommunication service to an account associated with a calling line number. The calling-party-pays gateway is configured for connection between a telephone system and a switch servici... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6636592 | Method and system for using bad billed number records to prevent fraud in a telecommunication system A method for using at least one Bad Billed Number Record (BBN) to detect fraud in a telecommunication system includes the steps of generating the at least one BBN for each call attempt made using a billing product, when the call attempt satisfies any one ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6618475 | Domestic origination to international termination country set logic A method and device for preventing fraud in international calls in a long-distance telecommunications system, where selected customers can avoid fraud control blocks and greater granularity is achieved in blocking international destinations. In the method... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6597775 | Self-learning real-time prioritization of telecommunication fraud control actions A predictive model system is used to detect telecommunications fraud. Call records (CDRs) provided by telephone companies are evaluated against specified rules. If one or more rules are matched, the system generates an alert. Pending alerts for a customer... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6587552 | Fraud library A system for analyzing fraud in a telecommunications system, where the system comprises at least one processor, software and calling records stored in a database. The at least one processor has input that receives a user selection of a revenue source and ... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6574317 | System and method for blocking uncollectible random traffic of a telecommunication network A system and method for blocking uncollectible random call traffic of a telecommunication network. The system includes a database that stores a plurality of customer and call data, a fraud detection server that extracts from the database a plurality of cu... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6570968 | Alert suppression in a telecommunications fraud control system A method and device for suppressing threshold alerts in a telecommunication fraud control system is disclosed. Threshold alerts are generated when the count of a certain category of call exceeds a certain threshold. These counts are maintained in relation... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6556669 | International origination to domestic termination call blocking A method and device for preventing fraud in special service calls from an international origin point to a domestic terminating point through a long-distance telecommunications system is described. In the system and method, a Screening for International Ca... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6542729 | System and method for minimizing fraudulent usage of a mobile telephone A system and method for minimizing fraudulent usage of a mobile telephone, wherein data regarding an authorized user's prior usage of a mobile telephone is accumulated, data regarding a current user's usage of the mobile telephone is accumulated, the stat... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6526126 | Identifying an unidentified person using an ambiguity-resolution criterion A system (8, 60, 500) for identifying an unidentified person (14, 510) includes a database (42) that contains utterance data (162) and an ambiguity-resolution criterion (114, 119, 121) corresponding to a known person. A processing system (10, 11, 502) is ... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6519332 | Mechanism for rejecting collect calls A mechanism for rejecting specific types of calls in a network including collect calls and telemarketing calls. Calls are tagged to indicate the type of call, this tag being recognizable at the terminating end of the network allowing automatic rejection o... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6430277 | Dial-around compensation method and system A method and system for determining dial-around compensation based on the actual data recorded at the smart pay telephones. Records maintained at the smart phone store dialed information, and, through a series of parsing and filtering operations on those ... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6400812 | User registration The purpose of the present invention is to be able to register and authenticate a user and thus to allow for a simple charging method. Achivement of registration and authentication to allow for simple charging is solved by letting the client connect to a ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6330312 | Communications network In a communications network, the duration of a pre-answer phase of a call is recorded with reference to a number of signalling events associated with the set-up of the call. A billing record may be generated corresponding to the recorded pre-answer phase ... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6282276 | Method of billing a value-added call A method of billing a telephone call between a caller and a value-added service. A request is received from a caller for a telephone call between the caller and the value-added service. Information associated with a credit account is requested before the ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6088433 | System and method for forwarding call from disconnected telephone number to new telephone number A call forwarding system for an AIN telecommunications environment is provided in which a destination has changed from an old telephone number to a new telephone number. A calling party places a call which attempts to contact the destination by dialing th... | 07/11/2000 |
