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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1998
Filed:
May. 31, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert Bergman Levy, Huntingdon Valley, PA (US);
Assignee:
AT&T, Middetown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379114 ; 379121 ; 379144 ; 379222 ;
Abstract
A party (12, 14, 16 and 18) to a telephone call carried by a telecommunications network (10) may effect transfer of the call charges that would otherwise be billed to that party by entering a billing transfer request after the call has been set up. Upon receipt of the billing transfer request, the network verifies whether the subscriber is authorized. If so, then a billing record created upon call set up is transferred to an alternative number designated by the subscriber.