H04M 2017/12
Prepayment of wireline communication systems, wireless communication systems or telephone systems: using
Official title: {using calling, telephone credit/debit cards}
H04M2017/12 (Prepayment of wireline communication systems, wireless communication systems or telephone systems: using) appears on 136 US grants and 142 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04M- Granted patents
- 136
- Published applications
- 142
- Assignees
- 74
- Inventors
- 231
- Latest grant
- 6 Feb 2024
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 11 | 3 |
| 2002 | 14 | 11 |
| 2003 | 8 | 20 |
| 2004 | 7 | 15 |
| 2005 | 8 | 10 |
| 2006 | 11 | 8 |
| 2007 | 6 | 4 |
| 2008 | 5 | 9 |
| 2009 | 6 | 13 |
| 2010 | 4 | 3 |
| 2011 | 5 | 8 |
| 2012 | 7 | 3 |
| 2013 | 12 | 4 |
| 2014 | 3 | 11 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2 | 3 |
| 2017 | 4 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 4 | 5 |
| 2020 | 3 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 3 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Authentication and control of incoming communication6 Feb 2024US 11,895,265 B2Global Tel'Link Corporation
- System and method for paying a merchant by a registered user using a cellular telephone account20 Dec 2022US 11,531,977 B2Prove Identity, Inc.
- System and method for authentication of a registered mobile subscriber28 Jun 2022US 11,373,163 B2Prove Identity, Inc.
- Authentication and control of incoming communication17 May 2022US 11,336,765 B2Global Tel'Link Corporation
- System and method for paying a merchant by a registered user using a cellular telephone account30 Mar 2021US 10,963,858 B2Payfone, Inc.
- Authentication and control of incoming communication16 May 2024US 2024/0163366 A1Global Tel'Link Corporation
- Authentication and control of incoming communication20 Oct 2022US 2022/0337700 A1Global Tel'Link Corporation
- Authentication and control of incoming communication29 Jul 2021US 2021/0234957 A1Global Tel'Link Corporation
- System and method for paying a merchant by a registered user using a cellular telephone account1 Jul 2021US 2021/0201291 A1Payfone, Inc.
- Authentication and control of incoming communication9 Jul 2020US 2020/0220971 A1Global Tel'Link Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Mobile communication terminal and card information reading device253US 6,910,624 B1Ntt Docomo, Inc. · 2005
- Wireless telephone debit card system and method244US 5,359,182 AInterDigital Technology Corporation · 1994
- System and method for paying a merchant by a registered user using a cellular telephone account202US 8,606,640 B2Payfone, Inc. · 2013
- System, method and computer program product for a dynamic rules-based threshold engine162US 6,208,720 B1MCI Communications Corporation · 2001
- Wirelessly executing transactions with different enterprises143US 7,942,337 B2DeviceFidelity, Inc. · 2011