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US 2011/0235791 A1Published application
Payment system for paying peering partners in a telecommunications network
AssigneeIntelePeer, Inc.
InventorsJohn Ward, Daniel G. Quandt, Phillip E. Bronsdon, Haydar Haba
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Abstract
Peering partners register with a peering network for direct broadband routing of call offers. The peering network terminates call offers on behalf of peering partners, collecting call detail records, summarizing termination usage, and calculating a payment to be provided to the peering partner in return for using the services of the peering network.
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A method comprising:
- facilitating connections of call offers within a telecommunications peering network, wherein the facilitating includes:
- (a) receiving a call offer destined for a telephone number registered by a peering partner of the telecommunications peering network,
- (b) determining that the telephone number belongs to a first peering partner,
- (c) routing the call offer directly to the first peering partner, and
- (d) generating a call detail record regarding the call offer, the call detail record enriched with peering information,
- wherein steps (a) through (d) are repeated for a plurality of call offers for telephone numbers registered by the first peering partner;
- summarizing usage of the telecommunications peering network by the first peering partner over a period of time;
- and
- calculating a payment based in part upon the summarized usage.
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A system comprising:
- a means for facilitating the connection of a plurality of call offers to a plurality of peering partners within a telecommunications peering network;
- a means for matching the telephone numbers to peering partners, each telephone number corresponding to a destination number of a call offer;
- a means for collecting call detail records regarding call offers, the call detail records including peering partner information;
- a means for generating summarized usage reports based in part upon call detail records for each peering partner within the telecommunications peering network;
- and
- a means for calculating payments based in part upon the summarized usage reports.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.