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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 1991
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1990
Irving Benyacar, Englishtown, NJ (US);
Elizabeth V Courte, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
Albert Friedes, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Thomas P Howe, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US);
David D Kaufman, Atlanta, GA (US);
James R Magura, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Rachelle E Rees, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Pamela A Steinert, Farmingdale, NJ (US);
Mohan Venkataramana, Tinton Falls, NJ (US);
Yong Zhou, Washington Township, Morris County, NJ (US);
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
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.