Subscriber Identity Module Card

• US 20070060200A1
• Filed: 11/02/2006
• Published: 03/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DBS Communications, Inc.
• Original Assignee: DBS Communications, Inc.
• Inventors: Boris, Adam, McFarland, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US11/556,032
• Publication Number:
  US 20070060200A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/558
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/30 the meter or calculation of charges not being controlled from an exchange
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/2026 Wireless network, e.g. GSM, PCS, TACS
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/32 Involving wireless systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/92 Autonomous calculations of charges in terminal, i.e. meter not controlled from exchange
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/205 Transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier

Abstract

A SIM card for a phone has a first memory partition on which a phone user identity and phone network access data are stored. A service usage monitoring application is stored in a memory. The service usage monitoring application (a) logs information about a service used via the phone, (b) creates a service usage record for the service activity based on the information, (c) stores the service usage record in a buffer, (d) creates a reporting message containing at least one service usage data record, (e) sends the reporting message to a remote server at a preset interval based on a triggered event, and (f) purges the at least one service usage record from the buffer upon successful transmission of the reporting message.

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