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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
May. 24, 2005
Method and system for account balance restriction on application of cellular-pbx integration service
Mark R. Bales, Kansas City, MO (US);
Farni B. Weaver, Spring Hill, KS (US);
Charles E. Woodson, Peculiar, MO (US);
Mark R. Bales, Kansas City, MO (US);
Farni B. Weaver, Spring Hill, KS (US);
Charles E. Woodson, Peculiar, MO (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method for using an account balance to limit application of cellular-PBX integration service. A cellular wireless communication device (WCD) will be allotted a quantity of cellular-PBX integration service, such as a number of minutes of use per month for instance. The quantity will be decremented a the WCD uses the service, and the WCD may be precluded from benefiting from the cellular-PBX integration service upon exhaustion of the balance. In one embodiment, for instance, when a radio access network (RAN) that serves the WCD receives a call request for the WCD, the account balance can be used as a basis to decide whether to pass the call to an IP PBX server that serves the WCD or whether to have the RAN handle the call.