Hybrid Liability Model
AssigneeTangoe, Inc.
InventorsChristopher J. DeBenedictis, Jeremy J. Hicks
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A system and method for setting a billing allocation between a user and a company allowing the costs for personal and work use of a mobile device during a period to be allocated as desired. The system and method further provides for allocation of costs associated with obtaining a new mobile device. The billing allocation model provides maximum flexibility to allow a user to obtain the mobile device desired, while still allowing the user to take advantage of a company's preferred corporate rates and discounts and allowing a company to maintain control of mobile device costs relating to purchase and use of the mobile device.
Claims16
A method for automatically allocating costs of a mobile telecommunications plan between a user and an entity via software executing on a computer comprising the steps of:
- saving user information on a storage accessible by the computer;
- presenting at least one billing scheme to a user accessing the computer with a user computer;
- receiving a selection of a first one of the at least one billing scheme at the computer to define a selected billing scheme, the selected billing scheme comprising a ruleset for determining future billing allocations between the user and the entity for mobile telecommunications used by a mobile device;
- and
- configuring the computer based on the ruleset of the selected billing scheme to allocate billing between the user and the entity.
A system for automatically allocating costs of a mobile telecommunications plan between a user and an entity comprising:
- a server, having a network connection and a storage;
- said storage having user information stored thereon;
- software executing on said server to present at least one billing scheme to the user;
- software executing on said server to receive a selection of a first one the at least one billing scheme to define a selected billing scheme, the selected billing scheme comprising a ruleset for determining future billing allocations between the user and the entity for mobile telecommunications use by a mobile device;
- and
- software executing on said server to configure the server to allocate billing between the user and the entity based on the selected billing scheme.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.