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US 2006/0217107 A1Published application
Device billing agent
AssigneeOracle International Corporation
InventorStephane Maes
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Abstract
Access devices using billing agents and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises capturing, at an access device, a communication to be transmitted from the access device. The method further comprises determining billing information about the communication and transmitting, from the wireless communications device, the billing information to a billing system.
Claims26
A method comprising:
- capturing, at an access device, a communication to be transmitted from the access device;
- determining billing information about the communication;
- and
- transmitting, from the access device, the billing information to a billing system.
1 more element
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a billing system associated with a network provider, billing information from an access device communicating on a network, the billing information including communication information for at least one communication transmitted from the access device;
- and
- billing a customer of the network provider based at least in part on the billing information.
An access device comprising:
- application logic;
- billing agent logic, communicatively coupled with the application logic, to monitor the application logic, to capture a communication transmitted from the application logic, and to determine billing information about the communication;
- and
- a communication component to transmit the billing information to a billing system and to transmit the communication.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.