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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8036353 | Method and apparatus for issuing a credit A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method to monitor service outages of a service center, detect a service outage, identify one or more customers affected by the service outage, and assign a credit to each of t... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7912191 | Method and system for monitoring traffic revenue flows for communications companies A method for monitoring traffic revenue flows for a plurality of communications companies using Information Technology (IT) systems, including the following steps (v) designing an optimal sample of transactions that maximizes the probability of detectin... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7738640 | Methods for reconciling discrepancies in circuit information among various telecommunication network management systems A method includes retrieving a first data set from a billing system configured to facilitate a billing operation associated with a network. The first data set includes a plurality of billing records, which includes a first billing record associated with and includin... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7609825 | Method and apparatus for automated billing and crediting of customer accounts An account management system (100) is coupled to a service center (101) serving a number of customers (108). The account management system has a communications interface (110), a memory (104), and a controller (102). The con... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7508925 | System and method for correcting call detail record files A processor readable medium embodying executable instructions to correct call detail records includes instructions to scan a received file including a plurality of call detail records to detect a file rejection condition, instructions to edit the received file to pr... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7424103 | Method of telecommunications call record correlation providing a basis for quantitative analysis of telecommunications call traffic routing A method of identifying arbitrage includes determining whether originating and terminating call detail records (CDRs) are correlated and obtaining correlated candidate pairs from the determined CDRs; establishing whether a correlated candidate pair of the obtained c... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7372954 | Method for NPA split processing A system and method for numbering plan area (NPA) split processing is disclosed. In one implementation, a query is received during a permissive dialing period. The query comprises a destination location that is associated with a first NPA. It is determined whether a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366683 | Methods and apparatuses for offline selection of pay-per-call advertisers Methods and apparatuses to connect telephone calls and track information about the telephone calls resulting from advertisements for groups of advertisers. In one embodiment, a method includes: determining a geographic area after receiving a telephone call to a firs... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359934 | Multiple storage class distributed nametags for locating items in a distributed computing system Methods, signals, devices, and systems are provided for locating and retrieving files, objects, and other items in a network. Nametags are distributed through the network with the items. Each nametag may hold logical names identifying the item, names of the volatile... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7295829 | System, apparatus and method for managing telephone call records A system, method and apparatus is disclosed for communicating one or more telecommunication call records associated with a telecommunication system, the one or more call records are transmitted from a remote telecommunication device. The system includes a telecommun... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7269407 | Validating an invoice in a wireless telecommunication system A method that provides improved invoice validation in a wireless telecommunication system comprises receiving billing input data for a circuit and indicating a discrepancy if a billed amount and a calculated amount differ by greater than a threshold amount, the bill... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7155205 | System and method for verifying subscriber data records in a telephone system A consistency verification tool performs a consistency check on subscriber data records stored in the cellular telephone system. One such consistency check analyzes subscriber data records in a home location register (HLR) and a billing system to determine the prese... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149296 | Providing account usage fraud protection A method, system, and program providing identification usage fraud protection are provided. A context for a use of an identification via a communication line is detected at a fraud protection service. The context for use of the identification is analyzed in view of ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139385 | Method for NPA split processing on a service control point The preferred embodiments described herein provide a method for NPA split processing on a service control point. These preferred embodiments can be used to overcome problems encountered during a permissive dialing period of an NPA split and yield several advantages ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7113576 | Method for correcting call detail record files A method for preprocessing transaction records indicative of subscriber activity on a telecommunication network for subsequent downstream processing is provided. The method includes receiving a file including a plurality of transaction records each having a pluralit... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7088808 | Network access pay telephone and conversion kit A kit for converting an existing pay telephone to additionally provide computer network access includes an upper housing unit that latches to a lower housing of the existing telephone, and a network adapter unit which includes a network computer and a control module... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085360 | System and method for auditing billing records in a telecommunications system A system and method for auditing billing records in a telecommunications system. The method retrieves first data records from an origination device and second data records from a billing generation device; retrieves billing records from a billing device; compares th... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7068996 | Banded billing system for telecommunication service 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 speci... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7058600 | Integrated proxy interface for web based data management reports An Intranet/Internet/Web-based data management tool that provides a common GUI enabling the requesting, customizing, scheduling and viewing of various types of unpriced call detail data reports pertaining to a customer's telecommunications network traffic. The Intra... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054422 | Methods and systems for accessing peg count information generated by signaling gateway or signal transfer point A routing node (100) includes a usage measurements module (134) for polling internal processing modules (106) and communication link modules (102, 104, and 106) for usage measurements collected by these modules and forwarding the u... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7020254 | Escalation tracking system A system for tracking billing escalation records includes a processing device configured to provide for creating, tracking and forwarding escalation records, and databases adapted to communicate with the processing device. The databases are configured to provide dat... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6993477 | Methods and apparatus for adaptive signal processing involving a Karhunen-Loève basis A signal processing device utilizes a stochastic approximation of a gradient descent algorithm for updating a transform. The signal processing device is configured to implement the transform for producing a desired transformed output signal, and the transform is upd... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6970542 | Methods and systems for identifying calls connected without answer supervision and for automatically generating billing information for the calls Methods and systems for identifying calls connected without answer supervision and for automatically generating billing information for these calls are disclosed. A monitoring device copies signaling messages associated with calls. The signaling messages are correla... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6968326 | System and method for representing and incorporating available information into uncertainty-based forecasts A system and method for representing and incorporating available information into uncertainty-based forecasts is provided. The system comprises a new class of models able to efficiently and effectively represent uncertainty-based forecasts with a wide range of chara... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6968048 | Automatic message accounting record creation system and method A method and system for generating and providing existing and new message accounting records in a standard format using call data obtained from switching and/or signaling networks is disclosed. A system for providing augmented billing messages includes a message acc... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6951009 | System and method for generating computer code to facilitate development of CDR management tools A computer code generation tool generates computer code to facilitate development of call detail record (CDR) management tools. The computer code generation tool inputs one or more raw CDR structures and creates a generic CDR structure therefrom. Given a generic CDR... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6931444 | System, method and computer program product for reading, correlating, processing, categorizing and aggregating events of any type A system, method and computer program product are provided for handling network accounting information. Initially, records indicative of network events are received from an input source. Next, action events are selected based on the input source. Such selected actio... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6891938 | Correlation and enrichment of telephone system call data records Methods to correlate call data records in a telephone or other communication system. A combination of parameter values in the data records and timestamps associated with some of the parameters can be used for such correlation. The information available within a sing... | 05/10/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6798871 | Method for correcting call detail record files A method for preprocessing transaction records indicative of subscriber activity on a telecommunication network for subsequent downstream processing is provided. The method includes receiving a file including a plurality of transaction records each having a pluralit... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6665386 | Systems and methods for extracting switch data A system and method downloads data and reconfigures the data into a database. A telephone user purchases a specific number of lines and specific services (i.e., call waiting) from a telephone company. The telephony company then programs a switch associate... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6567657 | SCP and MSC fault recovery process and signaling node failure reporting mechanism A method and system for automatically adjusting charges to a pre-paid account in a telecommunications or distributed processing network following a failure in the network. After a service that is chargeable against the pre-paid account is initiated in the... | 05/20/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6516052 | Method of scheduling connections Call pattern data is generated for scheduling calls between a number of sites connected to a communication network. The call pattern data defines instructions for a number of sites to make a number of connections across the network to other sites over a p... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6359975 | Intelligent-networked telecommunication system which strategically creates and employs service-dependent pseudo calling line identities to eliminate redundant billing errors An intelligent-networked telecommunication system avoids redundant billing for telephone transactions in which there is a billing conflict between the Intelligent Network (IN) and another component of the system by its Service Control Point (SCP) creating... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6333977 | Communication method authenticating a personal station and calculating a fee of a telephone call from the personal station According the present invention, a line using status of each personal station which contains an existing analog line in a route between the personal station and an exchange unit is determined. The PS number of a personal station having a telephone call, t... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6198811 | Systems and methods for extracting switch data A system and method downloads data and reconfigures the data into a database. A telephone user purchases a specific number of lines and specific services (i.e., call waiting) from a telephone company. The telephony company then programs a switch associate... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6198810 | Authentication system for a communication network In some communication services such as, for example, virtual card calling (VCC), authentification methods are employed to check the access authorization of the caller using the communication service to make possible misuse more difficult. The present inve... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6144726 | Telecommunications access cost management system A Telecom Access Billing System provides the capability for a communication carrier service provider to substantially automate the payment to other communication carrier service providers for the use of their services and equipment. Billed charges are rec... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6134307 | Call conversion process for a business system for a global telecommunications network The present invention provides a method for converting call events. The method includes receiving a plurality of call events from a plurality of sources in a global telecommunications network; converting the plurality of call events a plurality of call ev... | 10/17/2000 |
