Ameritech Corporation

At&t Intellectual Property I, LP

Sbc Properties, L.p.

At&t Knowledge Ventures, LP

Douglas Marshall

Carol Shifrin Gruchala

Gordon Lynn Blumenschein

Carlos H Donoso

Roger Albert Sosa

Thomas Joseph McBlain

John Wesley Moss

Susanne Marie Crockett

Nancy Ann Book

Dianna Inara Tiliks

James Daniel Kovarik

Barbara Jablonski

Jayson Anthony O'Neill

Matthew D Brooks

An enhanced Calling Party Pays (CPP) or Paging Party Pays (PPP) system that enables 1) billing of calls originating from traditionally non-billable sources, 2) routing of incoming calls to voicemail if the caller does not wish to incur the additional charges, 3) allowing the caller to complete the call and charge the cellular (or paging) subscriber for additional air-time usage when the caller enters a PIN or security code, also referred to as a billing override code, and 4) allowing the caller to block CPP/PPP charges from being billed to the calling party.

Calling-party-pays call processing for cellular and paging

The present invention relates to a service for providing call reports to a subscriber related to non-answered calls for calls attempted between at least two parties. Using telecommunications switch triggers, call status related to answered, busy, and unanswered calls is collected in a record and used to populate a report. The report is then provided to a report formatter that formats the report so that it is suitable for presentation to a subscriber. The reported call information can be provided to the report formatter in near real time.

Call management reports

An enhanced Calling Party Pays (CPP) or Paging Party Pays (PPP) system that enables 1) billing of calls originating from traditionally non-billable sources, 2) routing of incoming calls to voicemail if the caller does not wish to incur the additional charges, 3) allowing the caller to complete the call and charge the cellular (or paging) subscriber for additional air-time usage when the caller enters a PIN or security code, also referred to as a billing override code, and 4) allowing the caller to block CPP/PPP charges from being billed to the calling party

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Round Lake, IL, United States of America

Douglas Marshall