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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2000
Christopher Plush, Oxfordshire, GB;
Mark Wren, Devon, GB;
Orange Personal Communications Services Limited, Bristol, GB;
Abstract
Subscribers in a mobile communications system are provided with a bundle of call time each billing period, against which standard call types are rated. If, at the end of one billing period, a portion of the bundle for that billing period remains, the rating system associates the remaining portion with a bundle provided for the forthcoming billing period. In one embodiment, rating is interrupted whilst any remaining portions of the previous bundles are added to the newly-created bundles for the next period. In other embodiments, the rating system refers both to the current bundle and to a previous bundle when rating standard call types.