H04M 15/12
Discriminative metering , charging or billing
Official title: Discriminative metering {, charging or billing}
H04M15/12 (Discriminative metering , charging or billing) appears on 116 US grants and 99 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04M- Granted patents
- 116
- Published applications
- 99
- Assignees
- 92
- Inventors
- 255
- Latest grant
- 24 Sep 2024
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 4 |
| 2003 | 2 | 4 |
| 2004 | 6 | 5 |
| 2005 | 3 | 8 |
| 2006 | 5 | 17 |
| 2007 | 2 | 11 |
| 2008 | 4 | 5 |
| 2009 | 5 | 6 |
| 2010 | 6 | 0 |
| 2011 | 4 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2 | 3 |
| 2013 | 3 | 3 |
| 2014 | 6 | 8 |
| 2015 | 9 | 4 |
| 2016 | 4 | 5 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 3 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- 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.
- Proactive telephone number monitoring based on answer seizure ratio9 Apr 2024US 11,956,381 B1Avoxi, Inc.
- First node, second node, third node, and methods performed thereby, for handling data traffic10 Oct 2023US 11,785,497 B2Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Device failure influence range grasping apparatus, device failure influence range grasping method, and program1 Nov 2022US 11,489,968 B2Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- 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.
- Telephone communication system, telephone communication method, setting server and setting program18 May 2023US 2023/0156119 A1Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- First node, second node, third node, and methods performed thereby, for handling data traffic25 Aug 2022US 2022/0272565 A1Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Network exception systems and methods for packet-switched telephony11 Aug 2022US 2022/0256039 A1Starlogik IP LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Communications service billing based on bandwidth use136US 5,828,737 ATelefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson · 1998