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Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001

Filed:

Jul. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Lauran F. Dean, Lisle, IL (US);

David A. Jones, Wheaton, IL (US);

Michael Marcovici, Wheaton, IL (US);

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/68 ; H04M 1/66 ; H04M 1/00 ; H04B 1/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/68 ; H04M 1/66 ; H04M 1/00 ; H04B 1/38 ;
Abstract

An invalid mobile telephone call made within the service area of a vendor monitored by a vendor computer is detected by RF fingerprinting or the like results in transmission of a kill-call command over a TCP/IP network to a kill-call server that is interfaced with a mobile service center through a data link interface. The kill-call server determines whether the kill-call command is valid and, if so, then it transmits a message tear down request over the data link interface to an executive cellular processor which, if the kill-call capability is active, conveys a call termination message to the associated administrative call processing database node to effect the call termination.


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