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Call authorization and billing message routing capability

  • US 7,170,982 B2
  • Filed: 08/26/2004
  • Issued: 01/30/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a telecommunications network, a method of controlling the billing of calls comprising the steps of:

  • receiving an originating request for establishment of a telecommunications call in a billing client;

    transmitting a message, including an identification of a caller of said call, in a first dialect, from said billing client to a common agent server;

    in said agent server, determining an identity of a billing server for authorizing and billing said call;

    responsive to said determining, transmitting a billing request message, including an identity of said billing server, to said billing server;

    responsive to receiving said billing request message, generating a response message in said first dialect in said billing server; and

    transmitting said response message to said billing client.

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