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System and method for determining and associating tariff rates for institutional calls

  • US 9,787,854 B2
  • Filed: 07/30/2015
  • Issued: 10/10/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A telecommunications management system for avoiding tariff circumvention, comprising:

  • a telephone for making a telephone call, wherein the telephone is contained in an institutional telephone management system, and wherein the telephone dials a telephone number of or associated with a called party;

    a revenue management system configured to associate the telephone number with a called party user account, the called party user account including geographic information regarding the location of the called party, wherein the geographic information is verified by an account setup process prior to activation of the called party user account, the account setup process comprising;

    consecutively querying the telephone number against a plurality of remote databases until the telephone number is located or until all of the plurality of databases have been queried; and

    acquiring, from one of the plurality of remote databases when the telephone number is located in the one of the plurality of remote databases, or from the called party when the telephone number has not been found after all of the plurality of databases have been queried, geographic information of the called party associated with the telephone number; and

    a user account database configured to store verified geographic information associated with the called party,wherein the revenue management system is further configured to verify the geographic information of the called party using a corresponding credit card address and a credit card zip code associated with the called party, wherein the verifying includes mailing to the called party an activation phone number and a code that when entered during communication with the activation telephone number positively verifies the geographic information and activates the called party user account.

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