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US 7,120,419 B2Granted
Generating one or more triggered operations to prepaid service node based on connection with intelligent peripheral component
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorsRamachendra P. Batni, Kenneth W. Del Signore, Michael J. Rudolph, Yile Enoch Wang
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Abstract
A mobile switching center of an apparatus in one example generates one or more triggered operations to a prepaid service node based on a connection with an intelligent peripheral component.
Claims23
An apparatus, comprising:
- a mobile switching center that supports a prepaid mobile communication device on a communication session;
- wherein the mobile switching center connects the prepaid mobile communication device with an intelligent peripheral component to provide a service to the prepaid mobile communication device during the communication session;
- and
- wherein the mobile switching center receives a service identification associated with the service from the intelligent peripheral component;
- and
- wherein the mobile switching center generates one or more triggered operations to a prepaid service node to send the service identification to the prepaid service node;
- and
- wherein the mobile switching center compiles a list of a plurality of service identifications received during the communication session from one or more service nodes that provided services to the prepaid mobile communication device;
- and
- wherein the mobile switching center later sends the list of the plurality of service identifications to the prepaid service node to facilitate calculation of an amount to bill the prepaid mobile communication device for use of the services associated with the plurality of service identifications.
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A method, comprising the steps of:
- connecting a prepaid mobile communication device with an intelligent peripheral component to provide one or more services to the prepaid mobile communication device;
- and
- sending one or more service identifications in a triggered operation to a prepaid service node for billing the prepaid mobile communication device for the one or more services received during connection with the intelligent peripheral component;
- wherein the prepaid service node comprises a first service node, and wherein the intelligent peripheral component is part of a second service node, and wherein the second service node provides the one or more services to the prepaid mobile communication device during a communication session that involves the second service node;
- and
- wherein the step of sending the one or more service identifications in the triggered operation to the prepaid service node for billing the prepaid mobile communication device for the one or more services received during connection with the intelligent peripheral component comprises the steps of:
- receiving, from the second service node, the one or more service identifications that indicate involvement of the second service node on the communication session;
- and
- encountering a disconnect trigger for the connection with the intelligent peripheral component which sends a disconnect message to the prepaid service node, wherein the disconnect message carries the one or more service identifications to the prepaid service node.
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A method, comprising the steps of:
- connecting a prepaid mobile communication device with an intelligent peripheral component to provide one or more services to the prepaid mobile communication device;
- and
- sending one or more service identifications in a triggered operation to a prepaid service node for billing the prepaid mobile communication device for the one or more services received during connection with the intelligent peripheral component;
- receiving a dialed digits value from the prepaid mobile communication device that initiates a communication session with the intelligent peripheral component;
- and
- sending the dialed digits value to the prepaid service node, wherein the digits dialed value does not provide the prepaid service node with an indication of one or more billable activities of due communication session;
- and
- wherein the step of sending the one or more service identifications in the triggered operation to the prepaid service node for billing the prepaid mobile communication device for the one or more services received during connection with the intelligent peripheral component comprises the step of;
- sending the one or more service identifications to the prepaid service node to indicate the one or more billable activities that occurred on the communication session.
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An article, comprising:
- one or more computer-readable signal-bearing media;
- means in the one or more media for connecting a prepaid mobile communication device with an intelligent peripheral component to provide one or more services to the prepaid mobile communication device;
- and
- means in the one or more media for sending one at more service identifications in a triggered operation to a prepaid service node for billing the prepaid mobile communication device for the one or more services received during connection with the intelligent peripheral component;
- means in the one or more media for receiving a dialed digits value from the prepaid mobile communication device that initiates a communication session with the intelligent peripheral component;
- and
- means in the one or more media for sending the dialed digits value to the prepaid service node, wherein the digits dialed value does not provide the prepaid service node with an indication of one or more billable activities of the communication session;
- wherein the means in the one or more media for sending the one or more service identifications in the triggered operation to the prepaid service node for billing the prepaid mobile communication device for the one or more services received during connection with the intelligent peripheral component comprising:
- means in the one or more media for sending the one or more service identifications to the prepaid service node to indicate the one or more billable activities that occurred on the communication session.
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A method, comprising the steps of:
- connecting a prepaid mobile communication device with an intelligent peripheral component to provide one or more services to the prepaid mobile communication device;
- and
- sending one or more service identifications in a triggered operation to a prepaid service node for billing the prepaid mobile communication device for the one or more services received during connection with the intelligent peripheral component;
- wherein the prepaid service node comprises a first service node, and wherein the intelligent peripheral component is part of a second service node, and wherein the one or more services provided to the prepaid mobile communication device by the second service node comprise a first service and a second service;
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- wherein the step of sending the one or more service identifications in the triggered operation to the prepaid service node for billing the prepaid mobile communication device for the one or more services received during connection with the intelligent peripheral component comprises the steps of:
- receiving a first service identification associated with the first service from the second service node;
- receiving a second service identification associated with the second service from the second service node;
- saving indications of the first service identification and the second service identification;
- sending the indications of the first service identification and the second service identification to the prepaid service node to facilitate calculation of an amount to bill the prepaid mobile communication device for use of the first service and the second service.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.