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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8116730 | Systems and methods to control online transactions Systems and methods are provided to control online transactions via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes a data storage facility to store data associating a first telephone number with a second telephone number; and an interchange coupled with the... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8099078 | System and method for service activation in mobile network billing Embodiments described herein provide a user with the ability to select from a list of available services that can be used on a mobile device. The services include device-based services and device-network based services. The activation, usage tracking and deactivatio... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095111 | Methods for providing overdraft protection for post-paid communication service plans Methods for adding minutes to a calling plan having a calling plan period. The methods including determining whether a threshold number of minutes have been reached during the calling plan period; and incrementally adding minutes to the calling plan when the thresho... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086219 | Multiple access internet portal revenue sharing Multiple access internet portal billing systems are provided. A representative system, among others, includes a communication facility, a wireless internet server, and a transaction billing system. The communication facility includes a billing platform, and is opera... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086218 | Method of creating incentives for using wireless hotspot locations A system and method of distributing incentives for wireless hotspots is provided. The method includes providing an access point to a wireless hotspot for wireless devices to wirelessly connect to a larger network in a publicly accessible location, evaluating use sta... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8073425 | Charging method and charging system A charging method, device, and system are disclosed. The charging method includes: receiving a message carrying a charging group ID, and sending a charging request message carrying the charging group ID to a charging node corresponding to the charging group ID for c... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8010082 | Flexible billing architecture A flexible billing system captures communication events on a more granular level then current communication systems. The captured communication events can then be aggregated into different event categories and combined with other event parameters to provide a wider ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7995990 | System and method for consolidating accounting data for a communication session A method for receiving accounting data from one or more lower layer elements, consolidating the accounting data received, and sending the consolidated accounting data to an accounting receiving function, such that accounting receiving function can be a charging data... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995991 | Credit based management of telecommunication activity An apparatus for allowing a telecommunication service provider to manage the risk that a subscriber will not pay their bill for use of the provider's telecommunication system comprising interface means, operating within a digital computer, for communicating informat... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995992 | Community networking using networked audio devices A computing system for gathering media status information and other information about contacts in a user's contact list includes a server, a user device, and one or more contacts (or contact devices). The user device communicates with the server and requests media s... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995993 | System and method for linking existing Wi-Fi access points into a single unified network The present invention comprises a system and method for providing a distributed wireless network. In a preferred embodiment, at least one information processor is coupled to and accessible over a communication network, such as the internet. Network bandwidth is prov... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7865171 | Method and system for rating notification A method and system for generating rating notification to a user in a communications system, wherein a tariff structure is traversed, and during the traversing, one or more notification requests are detected for intermediate conditions. One or more notifications res... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7844250 | Differentiated charging in packet data networks Method and nodes involving communicating charging information (CI) in a network comprising at least a serving node (SGSN) and a gateway node (GGSN) wherein charging information (CI) relating to a particular PDP context for a given mobile station is gathered in the g... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7805127 | System and method for generating a unified accounting record for a communication session A method for creating an accounting record in a policy server in a communication network. The method also includes receiving policy data from one or more application layer elements. The method includes receiving accounting data from one or more lower layer elements,... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7787861 | Serialized prevention of duplicate charging data records The invention allows serialized prevention of duplicate charging records so that loss of charging data records does not occur even in cases of multiple charging gateways being down or otherwise unreachable at a time. In response to detecting no acknowledgement recei... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7761084 | Systems and methods for session records correlation A billing mediation system for use within a communications network that correlates session records pertaining to usage of network resources is disclosed. The billing mediation system includes a record receiver, a record correlator, a look ahead cache, a set of buffe... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7747242 | Wireless communication system, base station, packet control function apparatus, node apparatus and accounting server A communications system which performs accounting according to the actual provided communication quality in a QoS authentication service. A radio system has mobile stations, a radio base station, a packet function control apparatus, a node apparatus and an accountin... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7664485 | Making a phone call from an electronic device having an address list or a call history list A method and apparatus of managing a phone device of a personal digital assistant (PDA) is provided. In one example of the present invention, the PDA retrieves a call history list from a stored memory location, the call history list including a call history list rec... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7650138 | Methods for providing overdraft protection for post-paid communication service plans Methods for adding data blocks to a data subscription plan period. The methods include determining whether a threshold number of data blocks have been reached during the data subscription plan period; and incrementally adding data blocks to the data subscription pla... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7529538 | Pre-paid wireless interactive voice response system A wireless communications system providing interactive voice response is disclosed. The system is menu-driven, and can accept information and requests from customers. In response to one type of request, the system can provide the customer with information regarding ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526272 | Method of creating incentives for using wireless hotspot locations A system and method of distributing incentives for wireless hotspots is provided. The method includes providing an access point to a wireless hotspot for wireless devices to wirelessly connect to a larger network in a publicly accessible location, evaluating use sta... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7493102 | Method for determining charges in real time for value-added services in a telecommunication network A method for determining charges in real time for value-added services in a telecommunication network, having an intelligent network structure, in which a caller selects a value-added service by dialing an associated destination number. This destination number is in... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7450928 | Methods for providing overdraft protection for post-paid communication service plans Methods for adding minutes to a calling plan having a calling plan period. The methods including determining whether a threshold number of minutes have been reached during the calling plan period; and incrementally adding minutes to the calling plan when the thresho... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7440441 | Method and system for Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) rating and billing The advances disclosed herewith delimit an improved method and system for smoothly rating and billing Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). Implemented as part of a computer program product, the solution seeking the protection of Letters Patent, represents a comprehen... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433650 | Method of creating incentives for establishing hotspot locations A process of creating incentives for wireless hotspots by a service provider is disclosed. An access point is provided to a wireless hotspot for wireless devices to wirelessly connect to a larger network in a publicly accessible location. Use of the access point for... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433676 | Charging method for use in service providing system, program, and storage medium When a service providing server receives, from a mobile phone or the like owned by a user, a request to modify a parameter defining the performance of a control device provided in an automobile, the service providing server transmits a requested modification command... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433685 | Order method Order method comprising following steps: reproduction of the offer of a provider with electronic reproduction means of a personal terminal, selection of the offer through the user, execution in sai... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433453 | Method and system for transmitting useful data between telecommunication devices A method and system for transmitting service data between telecommunication devices. Pre-paid access data including a first digital key and control data is stored in a memory module of a telecommunication device, a second digital key being stored on one or more cont... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428510 | Prepaid short messaging A prepaid messaging solution which uses open networking standards (e.g., TCP/IP) and which supports pre-payment of enhanced Internet messaging services. The disclosed prepaid architectures and methods accurately determine if a subscriber has sufficient account balan... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426381 | Device billing agent Access devices using billing agents and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises capturing, at an access device, a communication to be transmitted from the access device. The method further comprises determining billing information about the co... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424283 | Method and system for billing for multicast communications to wireless terminals A method and system for billing an account of a wireless terminal to reflect multicast transmission of data to the wireless terminal. A first record is sent to a billing system indicating that, at a given time, data was transmitted to a multicast group. A second rec... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420920 | Automated service change recommendations for wireless network subscribers A method of automatically suggesting service changes for a wireless communications network subscriber is provided. The method includes compiling a record of services used by the subscriber during a time period, determining one or more subscriber usage metrics, compa... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418252 | Subscriber management and accounting using event detection in a wireless device A system and method performs real-time subscriber management and accounting for a wireless device by detecting predetermined events within the wireless device and communicating information pertaining to such events from the wireless device to a real-time subscriber ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415268 | Method and apparatus to provide charging for ad-hoc service provisioning between trusted parties and between untrusted parties A method and a system provide a service for a user device with a service provider. The method includes establishing a service provisioning relationship between the user device and a bridging user device through a first wireless network (e.g., a Bluetooth network); p... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412228 | Method for notifying a primary wireless unit of group calling plan activity The present invention provides a method for notifying a primary wireless unit in a group calling plan that a wireless unit in the group calling plan has call activity. An MSC determines if there is call activity on a wireless phone. The MSC determines if the wireles... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403763 | Device agent Device agents and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises monitoring, at an access device, at least a subset of device activity. The method further comprises detecting an activity satisfies at least one condition specified by a policy and exec... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400877 | Method of supporting multiple service levels in a wireless data network A wireless data network distinguishes among different users connected to the network and associates each user with a service class that offers a selected level of service. The base station in the network queries the user for its unique user identification code and a... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7389116 | System, method, and computer program product for short message service (SMS) rating A rating system, method and computer program product are provided. A message is identified, after which it is determined whether the message is concatenated. The message is then rated based on the determination. ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7389106 | Traffic shaping of cellular service consumption through modification of consumer behavior encouraged by cell-based pricing advantages Changes in wireless service user behavior are encouraged and produced to shape utilization patterns among cells within a rate plan region by using shaping rules which define potential discounts from a standard charge rate under certain cell-specific utilization cond... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386296 | Controlling and enhancing handoff between wireless access points A process of maintaining access information between wireless hotspots is disclosed. A logon request from a wireless portable device is received by a first access point of a first wireless hotspot and use of the first access point by the wireless portable device is a... | 06/10/2008 |
