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System and method for enabling and enhancing spending limits functionality in post-paid wireless billing systems

  • US 20040192297A1
  • Filed: 01/12/2004
  • Published: 09/30/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2003
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A system enabling accelerated accounting of an event initiated in a wireless telecommunications system by a roaming subscriber to a telecommunications service plan offered by a home service provider, comprising:

  • a serving switch associated with a serving carrier for receiving a request to initiate the event from a subscriber device;

    an event manager associated with the home service provider for receiving the call request from the serving switch, for fulfilling the event initiation request, for accumulating data characterizing the event once initiated, and for transmitting the event characterizing data after the event has concluded; and

    a subscriber database comprised of subscriber records for telecommunications service plan subscribers of the home service provider; and

    a balance manager functionally associated with the subscriber database for receiving the transmitted event characterizing data from the event manager and for modifying the respective subscriber record in the subscriber database on the basis of the event characterizing data.

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