公开(公告)号：US5003584A

公开(公告)日：1991-03-26

申请号：US509662

申请日：1990-04-16

申请人： Irving Benyacar ,  Elizabeth V. Courte ,  Albert Friedes ,  Thomas P. Howe ,  David D. Kaufman ,  James R. Magura ,  Rachelle E. Rees ,  Pamela A. Steinert ,  Mohan Venkataramana ,  Yong Zhou

发明人： Irving Benyacar ,  Elizabeth V. Courte ,  Albert Friedes ,  Thomas P. Howe ,  David D. Kaufman ,  James R. Magura ,  Rachelle E. Rees ,  Pamela A. Steinert ,  Mohan Venkataramana ,  Yong Zhou

IPC分类号： H04M3/42 ,  H04M3/487 ,  H04M7/00 ,  H04M7/14 ,  H04M15/00 ,  H04Q3/00

CPC分类号： H04M15/44 ,  H04M15/00 ,  H04M15/68 ,  H04M15/80 ,  H04M15/90 ,  H04M3/4228 ,  H04Q3/0029 ,  H04M2215/0104 ,  H04M2215/0152 ,  H04M2215/016 ,  H04M2215/0196 ,  H04M3/487 ,  H04M7/00 ,  H04M7/14 ,  H04Q2213/1313 ,  Y10S379/903

摘要： A call billing method and apparatus specifies, on a call-by-call basis, the calling charges incurred by a caller during a call to a sponsor-provided value-added service. The method provides the sponsor real time access to rate tables to specify call billing parameters needed to rate calls made to a sponsor number. A billing number is determined and validated and used to identify the party to receive a billing record for the call. A separate billing record is created for each call to the sponsor's number which includes sponsor-specified charges determined using the call billing parameters. Another feature enables the caller or called party to provide call billing parameters for billing and identificaiton purposes.