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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2004
Laura Culli, Austin, TX (US);
Bruce A. Nance, San Antonio, TX (US);
John E. Simino, San Antonio, TX (US);
Earold C. Fleischer, Iii, San Antonio, TX (US);
Michael Hanrahan, St. Louis, MO (US);
M. Lourdes Coronado, Austin, TX (US);
Laura Culli, Austin, TX (US);
Bruce A. Nance, San Antonio, TX (US);
John E. Simino, San Antonio, TX (US);
Earold C. Fleischer, III, San Antonio, TX (US);
Michael Hanrahan, St. Louis, MO (US);
M. Lourdes Coronado, Austin, TX (US);
SBC Technology Resources, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A telecommunications billing system generates a bill for a local service provider when a call is routed for a subscriber of the local service provider by an incumbent telecommunications service provider. The system includes a billing generator that generates a billing record in response to receiving the call. The billing generator generates a terminating access billing record when the call is an unbundled local switching call to the subscriber of the local service provider. Alternatively, the billing generator generates an originating access billing record when the call is an unbundled local switching call from the subscriber of the local service provider.