公开(公告)号：US06434537B1

公开(公告)日：2002-08-13

申请号：US08284708

申请日：1994-08-01

申请人： Gary Joe Grimes

发明人： Gary Joe Grimes

IPC分类号： G06F1760

CPC分类号： H04W4/24 ,  G06Q20/102 ,  H04M15/28 ,  H04M15/30 ,  H04M2215/018 ,  H04M2215/32 ,  H04M2215/92

摘要： The present invention is directed to a telephone billing management method for cellular telephones. The objective is to provide the user of a cellular telephone a cost accounting and management tool. The amounts of various classes of service used in the current billing period are downloaded and displayed at the user phone terminal, for instance on the wireless handset. Specifically, cumulative billing information for the present billing period is downloaded and displayed at the user's location during the call set up-period signalling period. The charge rate for the current call can also be downloaded. Once the call is stabilized, the duration (air time) and cost of the present call can be calculated and displayed in real time. Thus, for management purposes, the user has access to the provider's information on all charges up to the present call and the duration and cost of the present call can be calculated and displayed in real-time without further burden on the provider.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及蜂窝电话的电话计费管理方法。 目的是为蜂窝电话的用户提供成本会计和管理工具。 在用户电话终端，例如在无线手机上，下载并显示在当前记帐周期中使用的各种服务的数量。 特别地，在呼叫建立周期信令周期期间，将用于本计费周期的累积计费信息下载并显示在用户的位置。 当前通话费用也可以下载。 一旦呼叫稳定，可以实时计算和显示当前呼叫的持续时间（空中时间）和成本。 因此，为了管理目的，用户可以访问直到当前呼叫的所有费用的提供商的信息，并且可以实时地计算和显示当前呼叫的持续时间和成本，而不会对提供商造成额外的负担。

公开(公告)号：US06603973B1

公开(公告)日：2003-08-05

申请号：US08920203

申请日：1997-08-15

申请人： Mark Jeffrey Foladare ,  Shelley B. Goldman ,  Gary Joe Grimes ,  David Phillip Silverman ,  Roy Philip Weber

发明人： Mark Jeffrey Foladare ,  Shelley B. Goldman ,  Gary Joe Grimes ,  David Phillip Silverman ,  Roy Philip Weber

IPC分类号： H04Q720

CPC分类号： H04M3/42229 ,  H04M2242/30 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/16 ,  H04W8/18

摘要： A telephone network arranged to give a telephone call placed to a called party's personal telephone number a particular call treatment that is selected as a function of the particular one of a plurality of predefined areas in which the called party is determined to be located, each of the plurality of predefined areas having at least two telephone stations with different telephone numbers located therein. The location of the called party is determined from the location of a two-way pager associated with the called party as detected by a paging antenna, e.g., tower, of a conventional two- way paging system that was not necessarily installed for use in completing telephone calls. For each personal telephone number, a table is stored associating a call treatment with one or more of the areas. The particular call treatment associated with an area is applied to calls to the personal telephone number when he is within that area. The associations of particular call treatments with respective ones of the areas is under control of the called party. The particular call treatments may include: (a) routing of the call to a particular wired telephone located within the area; (b) routing the call to a particular wired telephone outside of the area, (c) routing the call to a particular wireless telephone, (d) routing the call to a sequence of wired and/or wireless telephones within or outside of the area until the call is answered, and (e) routing the call to an automated answering platform. A default treatment may also be stored for handling calls that are placed to the called party when the called party is not within any area for which a call treatment is associated.

摘要翻译： 一种电话网络，被布置为向被叫方的个人电话号码发出电话呼叫，该特定呼叫处理被选择为被叫方被确定位于的多个预定区域中的特定一个的功能， 多个预定义区域具有位于其中的具有不同电话号码的至少两个电话站。 被叫方的位置由常规双向寻呼系统的寻呼天线（例如塔）检测到的与被叫方相关联的双向寻呼机的位置确定，该双向寻呼机不一定安装用于完成 电话 对于每个个人电话号码，存储将呼叫处理与一个或多个区域相关联的表。 与区域相关联的特定呼叫处理当应用于在该区域内对个人电话号码的呼叫。 特定呼叫处理与各个区域的关联在被叫方的控制之下。 特定呼叫处理可以包括：（a）将呼叫路由到位于该区域内的特定有线电话; （b）将呼叫路由到该区域之外的特定有线电话，（c）将呼叫路由到特定的无线电话，（d）将呼叫路由到区域内或外部的有线和/或无线电话序列 直到呼叫被应答，并且（e）将呼叫路由到自动应答平台。 当被叫方不在与呼叫处理相关联的任何区域内时，还可以存储用于处理被放置到被叫方的呼叫的默认处理。