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7596212 |
Method for a calling party to reinitiate a call in card number service
The present invention relates to communication techniques, and discloses a method for the calling party to reinitiate a call in card number service, so that the calling party in card number service...
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7587365 |
Controlling expenditures by applying rules specified for categories of purchased items
A monetary account, such as a prepaid account or credit account, that is used as payment for purchases is divided into categories of purchased items. When a purchase is attempted, a request to...
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7542931 |
System and method for global automated address verification
The present invention provides systems and methods for global address verification of a transaction, such as a transaction card purchase. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present...
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7539294 |
System and method for providing prepaid telecommunication services
The present invention relates to a system and method for providing prepaid telecommunication services. More particularly, prepaid telephone calls can be made by users without entering any access...
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7532711 |
Systems and methods for providing calling plan information
Calling plan information is provided whenever a user makes a call that fits within the plan. The user may be assigned an account related to the calling plan with information associated with the...
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7502454 |
Method of accounting prepaid online internet service credit values
A method of accounting for online Internet usage credit includes establishing an account identifier in a database for a selected user. A number of credit value block records are associated in the...
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7492881 |
Intelligent queuing of transaction records
Disclosed are systems and methods which provide intelligent queuing with respect to processing transaction records. According to one embodiment, transaction records, such as collect calling...
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7450928 |
Methods for providing overdraft protection for post-paid communication service plans
Methods for adding minutes to a calling plan having a calling plan period. The methods including determining whether a threshold number of minutes have been reached during the calling plan period;...
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7424100 |
Prepaid telephony system and method of activating a prepaid telephony account
In one particular embodiment, the disclosure is directed to a method of activating a prepaid telephony account. The method includes receiving a call from a caller at a prepaid service destination...
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7400715 |
Prepaid telephone calling card with distinct PIN numbers
A prepaid long-distance telephone calling card has two or more distinct PIN numbers each obscured by opaque scratch-off material. Each PIN number is associated with prepaid value. A user can...
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7391855 |
System and method for implementation of a called party prepayment plan
A method and associated system are provided for processing data to complete a collect telephone call to a called-party that has prepaid an account to pay for the collect call. Data is received...
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7389126 |
Cellular phone which adds exchange header accessing information based upon country number stored in an IC and position information
The present invention provides cellular phone in which a plurality of mounting parts for IC cards in which the country number of the contracting country and the own-station telephone number are...
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7356327 |
Enhanced recharge card management system with reseller users' security and accessibility
A method and apparatus for allowing a reseller to securely access and manage scratch cards at a recharge card management system that is maintained by the service provider. The service provider and...
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7346156 |
Methods and apparatuses for placing a telephone call
In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect an identity of a caller; receive an assigned incoming telephone number; identify a recipient associated with the assigned incoming telephone...
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7310414 |
Prepaid phone card service using speech recognition
A method for placing a telephone call from a caller using a prepaid phone card includes the steps of connecting a caller with a caller interface having a speech recognition application, receiving...
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7308087 |
Enhanced communication platform and related communication method using the platform
A method of providing pre-authorized communication services and/or transactions via a plurality of networks, including accepting and processing a request from a user to provide at least one of a...
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7295659 |
Method and system for prepaid communications credit
A method and system for prepaying credits to a user account for communications services provided. If a system detects a predefined condition associated with a communications connection, the system...
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7280645 |
Method of associating multiple prepaid cards with a single account
A set of multiple prepaid calling cards that are associated with a single account is disclosed. A predetermined amount of minutes is associated with the set of cards. Cards within the set can be...
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7274925 |
Methods and apparatus for flexible communication device usage attribution
A technique for providing flexible communication device usage attribution is provided. Identification information of a user of a communication device is received from the communication device at a...
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7260194 |
Method and system for providing long distance service
A system and method of providing long distance service products to users. Post-paid debit calling cards are purchased on-line by a customer or user and the user is billed monthly, along with other...
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7257207 |
Method and system for paying prepaid communications credit
A method and system for prepaying credits to a user account for communications services is provided. A system receives an origination number and a code. The code corresponds to a predefined payment...
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7184530 |
Prepaid billing support for simultaneous communication sessions in data networks
A method and system for providing prepaid billing for two concurrent communication sessions is accomplished by a first-network-access device, such as a WIN SCP, receiving from a prepaid-user...
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7149500 |
Charge-all mode for calls in telecommunication network
A telecommunication network and method of billing a first subscriber associated with a first party to a call for variable call charges normally billed to a second subscriber associated with a...
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7149293 |
System and method for controlling data sessions in a wireless network
A system and method for controlling data session in a wireless network are described. One exemplary method includes detecting a request to establish a data session between a first client device and...
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7133508 |
Prepaid long distance call system and method
A subscriber's line is associated with a prepaid long distance account. When the subscriber attempts a long distance call, it is determined from the dialed digits whether the attempted call is a...
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7123886 |
Handheld mobile phone with a detachable battery pack
In a handheld mobile phone ( 10 ) having a detachable battery pack ( 20 ) which can be removably mounted to a body ( 11 ) of the handheld mobile phone, the detachable battery pack has a memory card...
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7120237 |
Systems and methods for collect call processing
A method of processing a collect call. The method includes receiving a request for a collect call from a calling party and transmitting information required pursuant to a detariffing order to a...
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7110515 |
Remembrance-promoted number receipt for call allowance
A user is allowed to place a call to a target phone number upon receipt of one or more remembrance-promoted numbers and zero or more passwords, from the user, at an access phone number location....
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7050554 |
Payment to charities with prepaid card
The balance or a portion of the balance associated with a prepaid card with or without a microcircuit is paid into a balance portion collection server, as a donations to charities, after setting up...
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7028891 |
System and method for confirming transaction or billing communications
A system and method for confirming transactions is provided. A central processor receives a request to process a current transaction coupled with prior transaction information corresponding to a...
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6970541 |
Telecommunication service processing method and apparatus
Embodiments provide a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for telecommunication service processing. In one embodiment, a calling card may be customized to redial a last number by entering...
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6931110 |
System and method for implementing calling card security and secured calling card
A computer implemented method, computer program product and system are provided for implementing calling card security. A telephone call request is received from a calling card user. A plurality of...
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6907116 |
Time balance based prepaid subscriber database and reporting
A time remaining determination module is implemented in a prepaid service to maintain and/or report subscriber account information based on accurately determined time remaining, even in light of...
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6856674 |
Platform for prepaid calling card calls
The present invention is a method and apparatus for providing prepaid card service to customers for placing telephone calls without relying on a post-service billing model. A service management...
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6847708 |
Method and apparatus for validating pre-pay and post-pay communication services using the same integrated database
A method and apparatus are disclosed for validating pre-pay and post-pay calls using an integrated validation database. The integrated validation database receives a pre-pay query including a...
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6826269 |
Professional services billing personal identification number
A system, and methods for billing clients of services providers are presented. Calls to the services providers are received at a prepaid calling center where the clients are prompted to provide an...
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6801607 |
System and method for preventing fraudulent calls using a common billing number
In a telecommunication network, there is provided a system for monitoring a plurality of telephone calls to a common private branch exchange, PBX) in order to detect fraudulent activity. In...
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6785534 |
Prepaid/postpaid automatic change of payment option
A prepaid/postpaid reconfiguration logic module in a service control point (SCP) of a wireless network allows a subscriber to a prepaid wireless service to change payment options between prepaid...
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6763098 |
Call blocking based on call properties
Non-toll calls originating from payphones may be blocked. An intelligent node is provided within the telecommunications network to identify whether a non-toll call originated from a payphone. The...
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6741687 |
System and method for providing prepaid communications
A system and method for prepaid supported communications in a telecommunications network are described. One exemplary method includes establishing a data communication session between a first...
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6741686 |
Controlling setup or continuation of a call charged from a pre-paid group account
In a prepaid group service, a number of subscribers belonging to a group share one common prepaid group account. In order to minimize the risk of an improper call release, an undercut of the...
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6735290 |
Method and system for pre-setting long distance call charges
A method and system for allowing a user to dynamically pre-determine the duration and/or cost of a domestic or international long distance call is provided. For a selected outbound originating long...
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6694000 |
Prepaid real-time web based reporting
Near real time Internet access of prepaid call history and replenishment data is provided via an Internet browser separate from the prepaid device to a user (e.g., the subscriber), allowing a...
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6636593 |
Multiple system management point nodes using dynamically transportable logic for system configuration management
A dynamic transaction network having multiple management stations, one or more terminals, and one or more databases is disclosed. The dynamic transaction network is capable of adding and removing...
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6636592 |
Method and system for using bad billed number records to prevent fraud in a telecommunication system
A method for using at least one Bad Billed Number Record (BBN) to detect fraud in a telecommunication system includes the steps of generating the at least one BBN for each call attempt made using a...
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6636591 |
System and method for affecting inmate conduct with good behavior discount telephone rates
The present invention is a system and method of affecting inmate behavior within a correctional facility through providing discount telephone calling rates to inmates who qualify for the discounted...
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6516056 |
Fraud prevention system and method
A system and method for preventing fraud. The method typically includes identifying one or more fraud indicators and examining past transactions and/or a pending transaction associated with the...
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6510216 |
Intelligent network provisioning system and method
An intelligent network provisioning system ( 20 ) has a client platform ( 22 ) with a user interface for order entry. A server platform ( 24 ) is connected to the client platform ( 22 ) by a...
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6487284 |
Card pay telephone with speed dialing
A pay telephone includes a keypad, a card reader, and a processor. The keypad receives input signals from a caller. The card reader reads identification data and speed dial numbers from a card...
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6453030 |
System and method for roaming billing
A system and method for managing roaming billing records for a telephone caller's home subscriber network. The invention includes a method for roaming networks to push roaming billing records in...
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