Notification of failed prepaid call

• US 20080075249A1
• Filed: 09/08/2006
• Published: 03/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Comverse Limited (Mavenir Group Holdings Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Comverse Limited (Mavenir Group Holdings Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zach, Danny, Keiny, Amnon
• Application Number:
  US11/517,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20080075249A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/114.17
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/00 Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42195 Arrangements for calling back a calling subscriber when the wanted subscriber ceases to be busy H04M3/48

Abstract

An apparatus for notification of a failed prepaid call, initiated in a telephony network by a calling party to a called party, including: a failed prepaid call data capturer, deployed in the telephony network, configured to capture data pertaining to the failed prepaid call from the network, and a notifier, associated with the failed prepaid call data capturer, configured to automatically notify the called party about the failed prepaid call, using the captured data.

Claims

1. An apparatus for notification of a failed prepaid call, initiated in a telephony network by a calling party to a called party, comprising:

a) a failed prepaid call data capturer, deployed in the telephony network, and configured to capture data pertaining to the failed prepaid call from the telephony network; and

b) a notifier, associated with said prepaid call data capturer, configured to automatically notify the called party about the failed prepaid call, using the captured data.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said failed prepaid call data capturer is further configured to capture the data substantially simultaneously to the failure of the prepaid call.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said notifier is further configured to automatically connect a callback call from the called party to the calling party, said connecting of said callback call being conditioned upon acceptance of said callback call by the called party.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the telephony network is a mobile telephony network.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said failed prepaid call data capturer is further configured to use monitoring of data traffic between a mobile switching center (MSC) in the telephony network and a billing system deployed on the telephony network, for capturing the data.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said failed prepaid call data capturer is further configured to analyze data generated by a real time billing system, the real time billing system being used for billing the calling party for prepaid calls.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said failed prepaid call data capturer is further configured to analyze Parlay event data generated in the telephony network.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said failed prepaid call data capturer is further configured to analyze Open Scripting Architecture (OSA) event data generated in the telephony network.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said failed prepaid call data capturer is further configured to analyze Intelligent Network Application Part (INAP) event data generated in the telephony network.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said notifier is further configured to carry out said notifying using a short message service (SMS).

11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said notifier is further configured to carry out said notifying using a multi-media message service (MMS).

12. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said notifier is further configured to carry out said notifying using Unstructured Supplementary Services Data (USSD).

13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said notifier is further configured to carry out said notifying using a message formatted according to a predefined policy.

14. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said failed prepaid call capturer is further configured to use a predefined capturing policy for said capturing.

15. A method for notification of a failed prepaid call, initiated in a telephony network by a calling party to a called party, comprising:

a) capturing data pertaining to the failed prepaid call from the telephony network; and

b) automatically notifying the called party about the failed prepaid call, using the captured data.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein said capturing is carried out substantially simultaneously to the failure of the prepaid call.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising automatically connecting a callback call from the called party to the calling party, said connecting of said callback call being conditioned upon acceptance of said callback call by the called party.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the telephony network is a mobile telephony network.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein said capturing further comprises monitoring traffic between a mobile switching center (MSC) in the telephony network and a billing system deployed on the telephony network.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein said capturing further comprises analyzing data generated by a real time billing system, said real time billing system being used for billing the calling party for prepaid calling.

21. The method of claim 15, wherein said capturing further comprises analyzing Parlay event data generated in the telephony network.

22. The method of claim 15, wherein said capturing further comprises analyzing Open Scripting Architecture (OSA) event data generated in the telephony network.

23. The method of claim 15, wherein said capturing further comprises analyzing Intelligent Network Application Part (INAP) event data generated in the telephony network.

24. The method of claim 15, wherein said notifying is carried out using a short message service (SMS).

25. The method of claim 15, wherein said notifying is carried out using Unstructured Supplementary Services Data (USSD).

26. The method of claim 15, wherein said notifying is carried out using a message being formatted according to a predefined policy.

27. The method of claim 15, wherein said capturing is carried out according to a predefined capturing policy.

28. The method of claim 15, wherein said notifying is carried out using a multi-media message service (MMS).