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US 8,483,658 B1Granted
Method and arrangement for reporting credit/charging information to a mobile communication station
AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorKlaus Lindemann
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Abstract
A method for transmitting prepaid charging/credit information to a mobile station. The available credit information can be sent to the mobile station by detecting a termination of a call chargeable to the subscriber of the mobile station; and in response to the detecting, sending the credit information to the mobile station as a connectionless message, preferably as a short message or a USSD message. Optionally, resources allocated to the call are released with sufficient delay for sending the connectionless message without paging the mobile station separately.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- maintaining credit/charging information related to a subscriber of a mobile station in a network node;
- detecting a call setup request, wherein the call setup request indicates a call chargeable to a subscriber of the mobile station but does not include said credit/charging information;
- based on the call setup request, determining the credit/charging information maintained in the network node;
- establishing the call;
- detecting a termination of the call;
- updating the credit/charging information maintained in the network node;
- and
- in response to detection of the call termination, formatting a connectionless message comprising an indication of the credit/charging information and sending a message service instruction message to a short message service center from a service control point via a direct connection, the message service instruction message instructing the short message service center to send the connectionless message to the mobile station,
- where the indication of the credit/charging information comprises a price of the call.
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A method comprising:
- maintaining credit/charging information related to a subscriber of a mobile station in a network node;
- detecting a call setup request, wherein the call setup request indicates a call chargeable to a subscriber of the mobile station but does not include said credit/charging information;
- based on the call setup request, determining the credit/charging information maintained in the network node;
- establishing the call;
- detecting a termination of the call;
- updating the credit/charging information maintained in the network node;
- and
- in response to detection of the call termination, formatting a connectionless message comprising an indication of the credit/charging information and sending the connectionless message to the mobile station,
- where the indication of the credit/charging information comprises a price of the call,
- the method further comprising:
- executing a Service Logic Program in a Service Logic Execution Environment to send the credit/charging information at a Service Control Point;
- and
- communicating with an external process through a gateway between services running inside the Service Logic Execution Environment and an external application,
- wherein the credit/charging information is sent using the gateway to the external application and subsequently to the mobile station.
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An apparatus configured to:
- maintain credit/charging information related to a subscriber of a mobile station in a network node;
- detect a call setup request, wherein the call setup request indicates a call chargeable to the subscriber of the mobile station but does not include said credit/charging information;
- based on the call setup request, determine the credit/charging information maintained in the network node;
- establish the call;
- detect a termination of the call;
- and
- in response to said detection, format a connectionless message comprising an indication of the credit/charging information and send a message service instruction message to a short message service center from a service control point via a direct connection, the message service instruction message instructing the short message service center to send said credit/charging information to the mobile station as a connectionless message,
- where the indication of the credit/charging information comprises a price of the call.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.