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Billing system for telephone signaling network

  • US 5,008,929 A
  • Filed: 01/18/1990
  • Issued: 04/16/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/18/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a telephone network having a plurality of offices through which telephone calls can be routed, each office being owned by a telephone company, each office including a signaling point (SP) that includes means for formulating a message signaling unit (MSU), the network further including a plurality of signal transfer points (STPs) for receiving and routing the MSUs, a plurality of digital data links connecting the SPs and STPs to one another, and a plurality of service control points (SCPs), each SCP being linked to one of the STPs and comprising a database that includes call data provided by one or more telephone companies, the improvement comprising:

  • a billing system including means for capturing at least a portion of the MSUs received by said one STP and for processing such MSUs to produce usage data indicating service recipients and service providers for the MSUs, the service recipient for an MSU being the telephone company that owns the SP that formulated the MSU, and the service provider for an MSU being the telephone company that provided the call data for the MSU or that transported the MSU.

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