H04M 15/10
Metering calls from calling party , i.e. a-party charged for the communication
Official title: Metering calls from calling party {, i.e. A-party charged for the communication}
H04M15/10 (Metering calls from calling party , i.e. a-party charged for the communication) appears on 178 US grants and 154 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04M- Granted patents
- 178
- Published applications
- 154
- Assignees
- 121
- Inventors
- 389
- Latest grant
- 10 Feb 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- System and method of deterring unsolicited telephone calls10 Feb 2026US 12,549,671 B2
- Fee re-rating for a wireless carrier network26 Aug 2025US 12,401,973 B2T-Mobile USA, Inc.
- Charging for timing resiliency service29 Jul 2025US 12,375,611 B2Ofinno, LLC
- Network exception systems and methods for packet-switched telephony24 Sep 2024US 12,101,433 B2Starlogik IP LLC
- Method, system, and device of cellular traffic monitoring4 Jun 2024US RE50,002 E1Allot Ltd.
- System and Method of deterring unsolicited telephone calls18 Dec 2025US 2025/0385971 A1
- Method of deterring unsolicited telephone calls6 Mar 2025US 2025/0080657 A1
- Network exception systems and methods for packet-switched telephony9 Jan 2025US 2025/0016272 A1Starlogik IP LLC
- Communication device and radio communication method28 Nov 2024US 2024/0397293 A1Ntt Docomo, Inc.
- Fee re-rating for a wireless carrier network21 Dec 2023US 2023/0413021 A1T-Mobile USA, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Selection of a link in a received message for speaking reply, which is converted into text form for delivery286US 8,989,713 B2Nuance Communications, Inc. · 2015
- System for providing flexible charging in a network261US 7,450,591 B2Telefonaktiebolaget'l M Ericsson (Publ) · 2008
- Long distance telephone switching system with enhanced subscriber services220US 5,222,120 AMCI Communications Corporation · 1993
- Apparatus for prepayment of telecommunication connections in a telecommunication switching network without utilization of rate schedules and call cost computations154US 5,440,621 AInternational Integrated Communications, Ltd. · 1995
- Method and apparatus for prepayment of telecommunication connections in a telecommunication switching network143US 5,265,155 AIntegrated Communications, Ltd. · 1993