Cellular telephone manifest system

• US 6,035,043 A
• Filed: 12/22/1995
• Issued: 03/07/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Pitney Bowes Incorporated (Böwe Systec AG)
• Original Assignee: Pitney Bowes Incorporated (Böwe Systec AG)
• Inventors: Sansone, Ronald P, Violante, Anthony F
• Primary Examiner(s): CANGIALOSI, SALVATORE A
• Application Number:
  US08/577,361
• Time in Patent Office: 1,537 Days
• Field of Search: 379/59, 379/91.01, 380/49, 380/24
• US Class Current: 380/250
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/56 Arrangements for indicating or recording the called number at the calling subscriber's set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones

Abstract

This invention relates to a cellular telecommunications systems that records in the cellular telephone all the telephone calls made by that particular cellular telephone. This enables the owner or agent of the cellular telephone to compare the telephone calls made by his cellular telephone with the telephone calls that were charged to his assigned number.

Claims

1. A method for checking the phone calls placed from one or more cellular telephones to other telephones via a telephone network, said method including the steps of:

A. storing the date and time of the start of each call placed by a cellular telephone in the telephone that placed the call;

B. storing the duration of time of the phone call placed;

C. consecutively displaying the date and time of the start of each call placed by the cellular telephone in the telephone that placed the call;

D. comparing the stored telephone calls to the telephone calls listed in the statement by the telephone carrier; and

E. determining if there are any calls listed in the statement that have not been stored in the telephone.

2. The method claimed in claim 1, wherein the storing step further includes the step of:

storing the telephone number called.

3. The method claimed in claim 1, further including the steps of:

displaying the duration of time of each phone call made by the cellular telephone.

4. The method claimed in claim 1, further including the steps of:

telephoning a data center that has the statement of the cellular telephone and the authority to resolve disputes between the cellular telephone user and the telephone carrier regarding telephone calls placed by the cellular telephone;

transmitting the date and time of one or more calls stored in the cellular telephone to the data center;

comparing the calls listed in the data center statement for a particular telephone with the calls transmitted to the data center from the telephone; and

settling the charges for telephone calls listed in the statement and not appearing in the cellular telephone.

5. The method claimed in claim 1, wherein the displaying step further includes the step of:

viewing the displayed calls one call at a time.

6. The method claimed in claim 1, further including the steps of:

storing dollars or call units in the cellular telephone so that the cellular telephone user may only make telephone calls that have a value up to and including the amount of dollars or call units stored.

7. The method claimed in claim 6, further including the steps of:

displaying the amount of call units or dollars stored in the cellular telephone.

8. The method claimed in claim 6, further including the steps of:

A. automatically transmitting to the data center the telephone calls made by the cellular telephone; and

B. advancing the amount of dollars or call units stored in the telephone.

9. The method claimed in claim 8, further including the steps of:

determining if the cellular telephone is an authorized telephone before performing step A.

10. The method claimed in claim 9, wherein the determining step further including the steps of:

generating an encrypted number in the cellular telephone that is unique to the cellular telephone;

transmitting the encrypted number;

receiving the encrypted number generated by the cellular telephone;

generating an encrypted number in a base station that is unique to the cellular telephone communicating with the base station;

comparing the encrypted number generated by the cellular telephone with the encrypted number generated by the base station; and

connecting the cellular telephone to a network to complete a call if the encrypted number generated by the cellular telephone is the same as the encrypted number generated by the base station.

11. The method claimed in claim 9, wherein the determining step further including the steps of:

generating a new encrypted number in the cellular telephone after each completed telephone call; and

generating a new encrypted number in the base station after each completed telephone call.

12. The method claimed in claim 11, wherein the step of generating a new encrypted number in the cellular telephone further includes the step of:

generating seed numbers.

13. The method claimed in claim 12, wherein the step of generating a new encrypted number in the base station further includes the step of:

generating seed numbers.