Methods and systems for billing communication
OwnerAri Kahninventor
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Abstract
A method, implemented at least in part by a computing device, that can be used to bill a communication. The method includes terminating a teleservice request at an intermediary node, wherein the teleservice request is associated with a sender and a recipient; receiving teleservice content transmitted by the sender, wherein the teleservice content is received at no charge to the sender; receiving a request transmitted by the recipient to access the teleservice content, wherein receiving the request includes charging a fee; and sending the teleservice content to the recipient.
Claims17
A teleservice method between a sender subscriber and a recipient subscriber, implemented at least in part by a computing device, the method comprising at an intermediary servicing node:
- (a) receiving an originating teleservice request initiated by the sender subscriber, the originating teleservice request associated with the sender subscriber and the recipient subscriber;
- (b) terminating the originating teleservice request;
- (c) receiving teleservice content transmitted by the sender subscriber;
- (d) notifying the recipient subscriber that teleservice content has been received;
- (e) receiving an access request transmitted by the recipient subscriber to access the teleservice content;
- and
- (f) initiating sending the teleservice content to the recipient subscriber;
- wherein
- (i) the originating teleservice request is terminated at the intermediary servicing node without charging the sender subscriber;
- and
- (ii) a party other than the sender subscriber is charged for delivering the teleservice content to the recipient subscriber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.