H04M 2215/96
Distributed calculation of charges
Official title: Distributed calculation of charges, e.g. in different nodes like for mobiles between HLR and VLR, or between the terminal and the billing function
H04M2215/96 (Distributed calculation of charges) appears on 78 US grants and 81 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04M- Granted patents
- 78
- Published applications
- 81
- Assignees
- 48
- Inventors
- 157
- Latest grant
- 15 Oct 2024
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 4 |
| 2002 | 5 | 12 |
| 2003 | 6 | 10 |
| 2004 | 2 | 7 |
| 2005 | 6 | 10 |
| 2006 | 5 | 10 |
| 2007 | 3 | 1 |
| 2008 | 4 | 6 |
| 2009 | 9 | 3 |
| 2010 | 7 | 4 |
| 2011 | 5 | 1 |
| 2012 | 6 | 2 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4 |
| 2015 | 4 | 0 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2020 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for distributed charging in digital telecommunications networks15 Oct 2024US 12,120,586 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Systems and methods for distributed charging in digital telecommunications networks25 Oct 2022US 11,483,685 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Device group partitions and settlement platform28 Aug 2018US 10,064,033 B2Headwater Research LLC
- Device group partitions and settlement platform7 Feb 2017US 9,565,543 B2Headwater Partners I LLC
- Prepaid short message services revenue capture5 Apr 2016US 9,307,095 B2TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.
- Systems and methods for distributed charging in digital telecommunications networks16 Feb 2023US 2023/0050017 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Systems and methods for distributed charging in digital telecommunications networks5 Nov 2020US 2020/0351626 A1Affirmed Networks, Inc.
- Device Group Partitions and Settlement Platform3 Aug 2017US 2017/0223516 A1Headwater Research LLC
- Prepaid short message services revenue capture23 Jun 2016US 2016/0183075 A1TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.
- Prepaid Short Message Services Revenue Capture4 Dec 2014US 2014/0357225 A1TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Device agent258US 7,403,763 B2Oracle International Corporation · 2008
- Accurate billing for services used across multiple serving nodes218US 8,463,232 B2Motorola Mobility LLC · 2013
- Apparatus for collecting charging information of a data service and charging method thereof170US 8,488,597 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. · 2013
- Device group partitions and settlement platform129US 8,548,428 B2Headwater Partners I LLC · 2013
- Network accounting and billing system and method105US 6,418,467 B1XACCT Technologies, Ltd. · 2002