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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2013
Applicant:
Confinement Telephony Technology, Llc, Greensboro, NC (US);
Inventors:
John Vincent Townsend, III, Kernersville, NC (US);
Wasif Jalil Qureshi, Greensboro, NC (US);
Charles David Orr, Burlington, NC (US);
Assignee:
Confinement Telephony Technology, LLC, Greensboro, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 15/00 (2006.01); H04M 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and systems for treating inactive accounts by designating certain accounts for either unclaimed or escheats treatment are presented. In the unclaimed treatment the remaining balance of funds associated with the account is assigned to a prepaid phone card, whereas in the escheats treatment the remaining balance of funds is remitted to an appropriate authority. In each case the account is declared inactive, and processes are made available to reactivate the account.