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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 07, 2019
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

K Arunkumar, Chennai, IN;

Darwin Chandran, Chennai, IN;

Karthikeyan Chandrasekar, Chennai, IN;

Ramkumar N, Chennai, IN;

Gopala Krishnan Ramasubbu, Virudhunagar, IN;

Ravi Sekhar Reddy V, Chennai, IN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 15/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/24 (2018.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 15/41 (2013.01); H04M 15/44 (2013.01); H04M 15/48 (2013.01); H04W 4/24 (2013.01); H04W 84/042 (2013.01);
Abstract

Mechanisms for implementing a billing process between a first Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN1) and a second Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN2) for a subscriber of the PLMN1 that visits the PLMN2. A method comprises establishing a smart contract between the PLMN1, the PLMN2, and a Data Clearance House (DCH). The method comprises sending a subscriber usage record, represented by a distributed ledger, of the subscriber from the PLMN2 to the DCH using a blockchain upon the subscriber having visited the PLMN2, wherein the blockchain is based on the smart contract. The method comprises sending the subscriber usage record from the DCH to the PLMN1 using the blockchain.


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