Systems and methods for mobile virtual network operator mobile to mobile service
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorYigang Cai
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Abstract
Call rating systems and methods using a mobile to mobile database with operator prefixes and a rating key table in which network operators subscribed to by mobile to mobile calling and called parties are identified by database queries and a rating key is obtained according to the prefixes to rate the call according to the rating key value representing agreed discounts for calls between subscribers of mobile network operators and mobile virtual network operators.
Claims22
A communications system, comprising:
- a network associated with a mobile network operator and operative to support calls between mobile devices associated with subscribers of the mobile network operator and mobile devices associated with subscribers of a mobile virtual network operator;
- a mobile to mobile data store operatively associated with the network, the mobile to mobile data store comprising entries for mobile subscribers of the mobile network operator and entries for mobile subscribers of the mobile virtual network operator;
- a first network element that obtains a call rating key indicative of an agreed rating for a call between calling party and called party subscribers of one or both of the mobile network operator and the mobile virtual network operator according to the entries in the mobile to mobile data store for the calling and called party subscribers;
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- a rating component operatively associated with the network that rates the call at least partially according to the call rating key.
A call rating system for rating a mobile to mobile call, comprising:
- a first network element that obtains a call rating key indicative of an agreed rating for calls between a calling party mobile subscriber of one of a first mobile network operator and a second mobile network operator and a called party mobile subscriber of one of the first mobile network operator and the second mobile network operator;
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- a rating component operatively associated with the network that rates a call between the calling party and called party subscribers at least partially according to the call rating key.
A method for rating a mobile to mobile call, the method comprising:
- obtaining a call rating key indicative of an agreed rating for calls between a calling party mobile subscriber of one of a first mobile network operator and a second mobile network operator and a called party mobile subscriber of one of the first and second mobile network operators;
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- rating a call between the calling party and called party subscribers at least partially according to the call rating key.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.