Decision-basing apparatus, and an associated method, for radio device responsive to origination source of data sent thereto

In a method for communicating in a radio communication system having a network part and a mobile station to which data, is selectably communicated pursuant to a data call, the data sourced at a selected data source, an improvement of a method for facilitating allocation of data call charges accruing pursuant to the data call, said method comprising:

• detecting, at the mobile station, indications of a request initiated at the selected data source for formation of the data call, the indications of the request including indicia identifying, at least by type, the selected data source;
• accessing a listing at a table maintained at the mobile station at which indicia is indexed together with calling numbers;
• retrieving from the listing a calling number associated with the indicia detected during said operation of detecting, the calling number identifying whether the data call charges accruing pursuant to the data call shall accrue to the mobile station;
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• initiating the data call to the selected data source utilizing the calling number retrieved during said operation of retrieving.

In a radio communication system having a network part and a mobile station to which data is selectably communicated pursuant to a data call, the data sourced at a selected data source, a combination with the mobile station of apparatus for facilitating a decision on use of the data at the mobile station pursuant to the data call, said apparatus comprising:

• a detector coupled to detect indications of a request initiated at the selected data source for formation of the data call, the indications of the request including indicia identifying, at least by type, the selected data source;
• a table containing a listing of the indicia included as part of the request to which said detector is coupled to detect indexed together with an item associated with the indicia, the item identifying a manner by which the data is to be used at the mobile station;
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• a data call initiator coupled to receive indications of a decision made responsive to the item indexed together with the indicia at said table and corresponding to the indicia contained in the indications of the request detected by said detector, said data call initiator for initiating the data call responsive thereto.