Predictive payment suggestion in a telecommunication system
    1.
    发明授权
    Predictive payment suggestion in a telecommunication system 有权
    电信系统中的预测支付建议

    公开(公告)号:US08010080B1

    公开(公告)日:2011-08-30

    申请号:US11188305

    申请日:2005-07-25

    IPC分类号: H04M11/00 H04M15/00

    摘要: A method and system for managing subscriber payments is disclosed. When a subscriber account reaches a threshold state, the subscriber may be directed to a payment platform that requests the subscriber to make a payment in order to continue using telecom service. As described, a billing system determines the subscriber's rate of usage of telecom service so far in a current billing period and then applies the determined rate of usage to predict a quantity of telecom service that the subscriber will use in the remainder of the billing period. The billing system then computes an overage charge for at least a portion of the predicted quantity of telecom service and conveys at least that overage charge to the payment platform. The payment platform then requests the subscriber to pay at least the computed overage charge, preferably as a condition to the subscriber using further telecom service.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于管理用户支付的方法和系统。 当用户帐户达到阈值状态时,订户可以被引导到要求用户进行支付以便继续使用电信服务的支付平台。 如上所述,计费系统在当前的结算周期内确定用户的电信服务使用率,然后应用所确定的使用率来预测用户将在剩余的计费周期内使用的电信服务的数量。 计费系统然后计算至少一部分电话服务的预计数量的超额费用,并将至少该超额费用传送到支付平台。 支付平台然后请求订户至少支付计算的超额费用,优选地作为使用另外的电信服务的用户的条件。

    Banded billing and associated invoice generation for communication service
    2.
    发明授权
    Banded billing and associated invoice generation for communication service 有权
    带通计费和通信服务的相关发票生成

    公开(公告)号:US07603103B1

    公开(公告)日:2009-10-13

    申请号:US11406753

    申请日:2006-04-19

    IPC分类号: H04M11/00

    摘要: An improved billing system for communication service is disclosed. A printed and/or online invoice will be generated for a subscriber's account and will be structured to include a visual gauge that depicts the extent of use for the billing period at issue. More particularly, the visual gauge will take the form of a table or listing that shows a continuum of possible time-increment or data-increment-ranges and that shows, for each range, the associated cost. The visual gauge will then include a visual marker that highlights or otherwise points out the increment-range into which the subscriber's use fell in the billing period at issue. Conveniently, the invention thus enables a subscriber to readily visualize where the subscriber's use fell within the continuum of possible increment-ranges.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于通信服务的改进的计费系统。 将为订户的帐户生成打印和/或在线发票,并将其结构化为包括描述所讨论的结算周期的使用程度的视觉尺度。 更具体地,视觉测量仪将采用表或列表的形式,其显示可能的时间增量或数据增量范围的连续体,并且对于每个范围显示相关联的成本。 然后,视觉测量仪将包括一个视觉标记,其突出显示或以其他方式指出用户在使用的记帐周期中所使用的增量范围。 方便地,本发明使得用户能够容易地将用户的使用落在可能的增量范围的连续体内。

    Method and system for suggesting individual payments for a common billing account
    6.
    发明授权
    Method and system for suggesting individual payments for a common billing account 有权
    为共同帐单帐户建议个人付款的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US08903356B1

    公开(公告)日:2014-12-02

    申请号:US11452771

    申请日:2006-06-14

    IPC分类号: H04M11/00 H04W24/00

    摘要: In a shared communication service plan in which multiple subscribers operate under a common billing account, a method and system is provided for more equitably allocating service costs among the subscribers in the group, by allocating overage costs based on the extent to which each subscriber used base services available to the group. For instance, if the group plan includes a designated number of base minutes of service per month and defines a per-minute overage cost for minutes used beyond the base number, the method and system may allocate to a given subscriber a portion of the group's overage cost, with the portion being determined based on the portion of the group's base minutes used by the subscriber. Advantageously, an invoice may then be generated setting forth the equitable allocation among the subscribers in the group, thus allowing the group to more readily determine how much each subscriber should pay.

    摘要翻译: 在共同的通信服务计划中,多个用户在公共计费帐户下操作,提供了一种方法和系统,用于在组中的用户之间更公平地分配服务成本,通过基于每个用户使用基础的程度分配超额成本 该组可用的服务。 例如,如果组计划包括指定数量的每月服务的基准分钟数,并定义超过基数的分钟的每分钟超额成本,则该方法和系统可以向给定订户分配该组的超额部分 成本,该部分是根据用户使用的组的基本分钟的部分来确定的。 有利地,然后可以生成在组中的订户之间设置公平分配的发票,从而允许组更容易地确定每个订户应该支付多少。

    Method and system for automatically revising software help documentation
    7.
    发明授权
    Method and system for automatically revising software help documentation 有权
    自动修改软件帮助文档的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US07127675B1

    公开(公告)日:2006-10-24

    申请号:US10196083

    申请日:2002-07-15

    IPC分类号: G06F3/00 G06F9/44

    CPC分类号: G06F8/73

    摘要: A method and system for establishing software documentation is provided. Rather than being static, the set of user accessible software documentation for a particular software program could be dynamically updated. The software documentation set accessible by the user may be defined by the configuration state of one or more configuration parameters at any given time. Once the states of the configuration parameters are determined, the program will dynamically update the set of accessible software documentation based at least in part on the configuration states of the configuration parameters. Thus, for any configuration state, only software documentation deemed relevant to the state of the software application could be made accessible to the user, thereby providing a more concise, focused and easily navigable set of software documentation.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种建立软件文档的方法和系统。 可以动态更新用于特定软件程序的一组用户可访问的软件文档,而不是静态。 用户可访问的软件文档集可以由任何给定时间的一个或多个配置参数的配置状态来定义。 一旦确定了配置参数的状态,程序将至少部分基于配置参数的配置状态来动态更新可访问的软件文档集。 因此,对于任何配置状态,只有与软件应用程序状态相关的软件文档才能使用户可访问,从而提供更简洁,重点和易于导航的软件文档集。

    Method and system for managing wireless devices using short-range wireless communication
    8.
    发明授权
    Method and system for managing wireless devices using short-range wireless communication 有权
    使用短距离无线通信管理无线设备的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US09559864B1

    公开(公告)日:2017-01-31

    申请号:US12619317

    申请日:2009-11-16

    摘要: A wireless device includes a self-activation client that allows a user to activate a communication service for that wireless device and for one or more other wireless devices. The communication service may use a long-range type of wireless communication, such as 1×RTT CDMA, EV-DO, GSM, or IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) communication. During the activation process, the wireless device communicates with a device management server using the long-range type of wireless communication but communicates with the one or more other wireless devices using a short-range type of wireless communication, such as IEEE 802.11 (WiFi), Bluetooth, or infrared communication. After the communication service has been activated, the wireless device may subsequently communicate with the device management server in order to manage the communication service for itself and/or for one or more other wireless devices (e.g., to receive updates or to make changes).

    摘要翻译: 无线设备包括允许用户激活该无线设备和一个或多个其他无线设备的通信服务的自激活客户端。 通信服务可以使用诸如1×RTT CDMA,EV-DO,GSM或IEEE 802.16(WiMAX)通信的远程类型的无线通信。 在激活过程中,无线设备使用远程类型的无线通信与设备管理服务器通信,但是使用短距离类型的无线通信(例如IEEE 802.11(WiFi))来与一个或多个其他无线设备进行通信, ,蓝牙或红外通信。 在通信服务被激活之后,无线设备可以随后与设备管理服务器进行通信,以管理其自身和/或一个或多个其他无线设备的通信服务(例如,接收更新或进行改变)。

    Computerized method for dynamic content placement in a document
    9.
    发明授权
    Computerized method for dynamic content placement in a document 失效
    动态内容放置在文档中的计算机化方法

    公开(公告)号:US08127227B1

    公开(公告)日:2012-02-28

    申请号:US11585053

    申请日:2006-10-23

    IPC分类号: G06F17/22 G06F17/24

    CPC分类号: G06F17/211 G06F17/2229

    摘要: A computer-operated method for dynamically laying out content in a document, so as to thereby establish a resulting document. A computer first virtually lays out primary content portions in a virtual document space within computer memory. The computer then lays out secondary content portions in spatial correlation with associated primary content portions, to the extent space permits. And the computer then lays out tertiary content portions in spatial correlation with areas of the document, such as groups of primary content portions, to the extent space permits, while giving layout preference to tertiary content portions that have higher priority than already-placed secondary content portions. The invention can be used to dynamically generate invoices for telecommunication subscribers or in other scenarios.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于在文档中动态地布置内容的计算机操作方法,从而建立所得到的文档。 计算机首先在计算机存储器中的虚拟文档空间中虚拟地布置主要内容部分。 然后,计算机在空间允许的程度上布置与相关主要内容部分空间相关的次要内容部分。 然后,计算机在空间允许的程度上布置与文档区域(例如主要内容部分的组)的空间相关性的第三内容部分,同时给予具有比已经放置的次要内容更高优先级的第三内容部分的布局偏好 部分。 本发明可用于动态生成电信用户的发票或其他情况。

    Methods and Systems for Storing and Accessing Application History
    10.
    发明申请
    Methods and Systems for Storing and Accessing Application History 审中-公开
    存储和访问应用程序历史的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US20100229100A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-09-09

    申请号:US12396895

    申请日:2009-03-03

    IPC分类号: G06F3/00

    CPC分类号: G06F9/485 G06F16/955

    摘要: In a communication device, multiple instances of different applications may execute. Advantageously, at least one instance of an application records and stores a browsing history of data items accessed during its execution. This stored browsing history may be made available to later instances of applications. Furthermore, one or more such stored histories may be accessed via a global back or a global forward command, allowing the histories to be browsed according to the order in which they were recorded.

    摘要翻译: 在通信设备中,可以执行不同应用的多个实例。 有利地,应用程序的至少一个实例记录和存储在其执行期间访问的数据项的浏览历史。 这种存储的浏览历史可以用于稍后的应用程序实例。 此外,一个或多个这样的存储历史可以经由全局后退或全局前进命令访问,允许根据记录的顺序来浏览历史。