Telephone toll service with advertising
    21.
    发明授权
    Telephone toll service with advertising 失效
    电话费广告服务

    公开(公告)号:US4850007A

    公开(公告)日:1989-07-18

    申请号:US66917

    申请日:1987-06-25

    摘要: There is disclosed a system for providing an economical telephone toll service in which a telephone subscriber selects the economical service by, for example, sending an appropriate signal, and then dials his directory assistance call or other telephone toll call. After the caller's options are determined and typically before signaling for the call is commenced, a recorded-announcement of an aural or visual nature is connected to the subscriber's line, the announcement consisting of at least one advertisement. The advertisements are selected from a databank according to some predetermined technique of selection, which may include any number of factors or features to make the service attractive to subscribers and of a nature to make the service also sufficiently rewarding to advertisers. After the initial delay, usually after the advertising announcement is completed, the toll call and/or directory assistance call is processed as usual but at a reduced rate of charge or with automatic credit being given to the customer's account.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于提供经济的电话费用服务的系统,其中电话用户通过例如发送适当的信号来选择经济服务,然后拨打他的目录援助呼叫或其他电话呼叫。 在确定呼叫者的选项之后,并且通常在呼叫的信令开始之前,听觉或视觉性质的记录通知连接到用户的线路,该通知由至少一个广告组成。 根据某些预定的选择技术,从数据库中选择广告,其可以包括任何数量的因素或特征,以使得服务对订阅者有吸引力,并且本质上使得该服务也对广告商有足够的回报。 在初始延迟之后,通常在广告宣告完成后,通话费和/或目录援助呼叫按照惯例进行处理,但费率降低或自动信用被提供给客户账户。

    Telephone call accounting system
    22.
    发明授权
    Telephone call accounting system 失效
    电话会计系统

    公开(公告)号:US4525601A

    公开(公告)日:1985-06-25

    申请号:US561154

    申请日:1983-12-13

    摘要: A computer based telephone accounting system collects data on calls made from a key system or PBX and automatically generates accounting reports which include the costs of the calls. A minimum amount of memory is used in calculating the costs by grouping combinations of area codes and exchange numbers into geographic bands and precomputing the distance from a particular area code and exchange number to all the remaining combinations of area codes and exchange numbers in the other bands. The combination of area codes and exchange numbers are stored in an N.times.M memory matrix where N equals the area code numbers and M equals the exchange numbers. A plurality of memory stored, multi-bit data words defining an algorithm for computing the cost of a call to a particular band are individually selected using an address defined by the position of the bit in the memory matrix which corresponds to the particular area code/exchange number being called. A programmed computer calculates the cost of a call using a memory stored rate table and the selected algorithm.

    摘要翻译: 基于计算机的电话会计系统从密钥系统或PBX收集呼叫中的数据,并自动生成包括呼叫成本的会计报告。 通过将区域代码和交换号码的组合分组成地理频带并预先计算从特定区域代码和交换号码到其他频带中的区域代码和交换号码的所有剩余组合的距离来计算成本最小量的存储器 。 区号和交换号的组合存储在N×M存储矩阵中,其中N等于区号码,M等于交换号。 使用由存储器矩阵中的位的位置定义的地址来单独地选择定义用于计算对特定频带的呼叫的成本的算法的多个存储器存储的多位数据字,该地址对应于特定区域码/ 交换号码被叫。 编程的计算机使用存储器存储速率表和所选算法计算呼叫的成本。

    Method of providing person locator service
    23.
    发明授权
    Method of providing person locator service 失效
    提供人员定位服务的方法

    公开(公告)号:US4313035A

    公开(公告)日:1982-01-26

    申请号:US113383

    申请日:1980-01-18

    摘要: A method is disclosed of using the public switched telephone network, including the CCIS (Common Channel Interoffice Signaling) system, to provide nationwide personal locator telephone service for called subscribers. In accordance with the service, a calling party may reach a called subscriber wherever the subscriber may be located by merely keying from a standard push-button telephone set a personal number unique to the subscriber. A telephone office having access to CCIS sends the number to a centralized data base. A telephone number at which the subscriber is located is returned to the access office, and the call is automatically completed to the telephone number. Other information may be returned to the access office to provide enhanced features. Such features include called subscriber unavailability announcements to the calling party, storage of a caller's telephone number, automatic call-back by the subscriber, and paging of the subscriber. A subscriber may update the information stored at the centralized data base from any telephone.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种使用公共交换电话网络的方法,包括CCIS(公共信道间通信信令)系统,为被叫用户提供全国性的个人定位器电话业务。 根据该服务,呼叫方可以通过仅从标准按钮电话机键入用户唯一的个人号码来到达用户可能位于的被叫用户。 可以访问CCIS的电话局将号码发送到集中式数据库。 用户所在的电话号码被返回到接入局,并且呼叫被自动完成到电话号码。 其他信息可能返回到访问办公室以提供增强的功能。 这样的特征包括对主叫方的被叫用户不可用性通告,呼叫者的电话号码的存储,用户的自动回叫以及用户的寻呼。 用户可以从任何电话更新存储在集中式数据库中的信息。

    Class of call discriminating trunk circuit
    25.
    发明授权
    Class of call discriminating trunk circuit 失效
    呼叫鉴别中继电路类

    公开(公告)号:US4007336A

    公开(公告)日:1977-02-08

    申请号:US660938

    申请日:1976-02-24

    IPC分类号: H04M15/04 H04M7/00 H04M15/16

    CPC分类号: H04M15/04

    摘要: A communication system is disclosed for providing itemized telephone subscriber billing of special assistance calls. A local office not equipped with automatic message accounting facilities is interconnected via a trunk circuit to another exchange having such facilities and thence to a special assistance bureau. The trunk circuit is accessible by the local office for both message rate billed and special assistance classes of traffic. On each call therethrough, the trunk circuit translates subscriber dialed digits for selecting the automatic accounting facilities or message rate billing apparatus in the local office in accordance with whether the call is of a special assistance or local toll call class as defined by the digits.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种通信系统,用于提供专门的电话用户计费特别协助呼叫。 没有配备自动消息会计设施的本地办公室通过中继电路与具有这种设施的另一个交换机相互连接,然后到特别协助局。 中继电路可由当地办公室访问,用于消息收费和特殊协助类别的流量。 在每个呼叫中​​,中继电路根据呼叫是否是由数字定义的特殊协助或本地呼叫类别,转换用户拨打的数字,用于选择本地办公室中的自动会计设施或消息速率记帐设备。

    Message charge control telephone answering device
    26.
    发明授权
    Message charge control telephone answering device 失效
    消息收费控制电话答复设备

    公开(公告)号:US3950619A

    公开(公告)日:1976-04-13

    申请号:US429036

    申请日:1973-12-27

    CPC分类号: H04M15/16 H04M1/65

    摘要: A call answering arrangement for enabling a calling subscriber to control the charging of a telephone call directed to a called telephone line equipped with an automatic telephone answering device. Incoming call signals appearing on the telephone line enable the call answering arrangement to direct the telephone answering device to transmit a prerecorded message to the calling subscriber and to record a message received from the calling subscriber. An incoming call is answered by momentarily applying answer supervision to the telephone line in response to the incoming call signals. The calling subscriber subsequently controls the interval of the answered telephone call during which the answering arrangement reapplies answer supervision to the telephone line for the purpose of charging the calling subscriber only for the calling subscriber use of the telephone service.

    Quota management in a session management function (SMF) for online charging

    公开(公告)号:US11349997B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-31

    申请号:US16978437

    申请日:2018-03-20

    摘要: Systems, methods, and software for performing online charging in next generation networks. In one embodiment, a Session Management Function (SMF) of a next generation network implements a Charging Trigger Function (CTF) that directly interfaces with an Online Charging System (OCS). The CTF transmits a charging request to the OCS requesting a quota of service units for the SMF, and receives a charging response from the OCS indicating the quota of service units granted to the SMF by the OCS. The CTF then manages the quota by allocating slices of the quota to User Plane Functions (UPF) implemented in a user plane of the next generation network.

    Method and apparatus for providing seperable billing services
    30.
    发明申请
    Method and apparatus for providing seperable billing services 有权
    提供单独计费服务的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20050027625A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-02-03

    申请号:US10633143

    申请日:2003-07-31

    摘要: Methods and apparatus for providing separable billing services. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a memory for storing a data address associated with a first type of communication and a processor for receiving a data packet, the data packet comprising a destination data address. The processor compares the destination data address to the data address associated with the first type of communication, and routes the data packet to the destination data address if the destination data address matches the data address associated with the first type of communication and bills an account associated with the first type of communication.

    摘要翻译: 提供可分离计费服务的方法和设备。 在一个实施例中,一种装置包括用于存储与第一类型通信相关联的数据地址的存储器和用于接收数据分组的处理器,所述数据分组包括目的地数据地址。 处理器将目的地数据地址与与第一类型的通信相关联的数据地址进行比较,并且如果目的地数据地址与第一类型的通信相关联的数据地址匹配,则将数据分组路由到目的地数据地址, 与第一种沟通方式。