METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT DATA HANDLING FOR MOBILE CALL BILLING USING IMS

• US 20090149154A1
• Filed: 12/10/2007
• Published: 06/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Gale, Martin, Bhasin, Rohit
• Application Number:
  US11/953,383
• Publication Number:
  US 20090149154A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/406
• 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 15/28 with meter at substation or with calculation of charges at terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/43 Billing software details
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/44 Augmented, consolidated or itemized billing statement or bill presentation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/57 for integrated multimedia messaging subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/745 Customizing according to wishes of subscriber, e.g. friends or family
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/80 Rating or billing plans; Tariff determination aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/8033 location-dependent, e.g. business or home
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0104 Augmented, consolidated or itemised billing statement, e.g. additional billing information, bill presentation, layout, format, e-mail, fax, printout, itemised bill per service or per account, cumulative billing, consolidated billing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0108 Customization according to wishes of subscriber, e.g. customer preferences, friends and family, selecting services or billing options, Personal Communication Systems [PCS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/2026 Wireless network, e.g. GSM, PCS, TACS
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/208 IMS, i.e. Integrated Multimedia messaging Subsystem
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/74 Rating aspects, e.g. rating parameters or tariff determination apects
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/7435 Location dependent, e.g. Bussiness or home
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing

Abstract

A method for billing mobile device calls and traffic data, the method includes: receiving a number, in response to a user'"'"'s input into a mobile communications device; comparing the received number to a contact list with annotations; determining whether the received number corresponds to a number in the contact list with annotations; generating a directed communication in response to the received number; sending a corresponding annotation to a billing system in response to the determining, and the initiation of the directed communication; wherein the mobile communication device generates the contact list with annotations, in response to the user input on a mobile communication device; and wherein the contact list and annotations are placed in a storage medium within the mobile communication device.

Claims

1. A method for billing mobile device calls and traffic data, wherein the method comprises:

receiving a number, in response to a user'"'"'s input into a mobile communications device;

comparing the received number to a contact list with annotations;

determining whether the received number corresponds to a number in the contact list with annotations;

generating a directed communication in response to the received number;

sending a corresponding annotation to a billing system in response to the determining, and the initiation of the directed communication;

wherein the mobile communication device generates the contact list with annotations, in response to the user input on a mobile communication device; and

wherein the contact list and annotations are placed in a storage medium within the mobile communication device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the annotations delineate between business and personal communications.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the billing system divides a billing statement based on the annotations;

and

wherein the billing statement is sent by at least one of;

electronically and in written form to the user; and

wherein the electronically sent billing statement is further sortable by the user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the sending of the annotations to the billing system is sent over Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystems (IMS).

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the directed communications are carried out on a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network.