Destination device billing according to call recipient
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorsMichael Wayne Brown, Joseph Herbert McIntyre, Michael A. Paolini, James Mark Weaver, Scott Lee Winters
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Abstract
A method, system, and program for billing for service provided to destination device according to the calling plan of the individual receiving the call. An authenticated identity for a callee answering a call placed to a destination device is received at an intermediary device. The intermediary device then accesses a billing plan for the authenticated identity of the callee and loads the billing plan for specifying charges for the call, such that telephone service billed to the callee is accessible at multiple destination devices.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a billing service communicatively connected through a data network to a destination telephony device for a first subscriber, an authenticated identifier for said first subscriber at said destination telephony device during a data signal transmission with a second subscriber, wherein said authenticated identifier authenticates an identity of said first subscriber with a first subscriber voice authenticated identifier through a voice sample provided by said first subscriber during said data signal transmission from an authentication service communicatively connected with said data network;
- retrieving, by said billing service, billing specifications for said first subscriber according to said authenticated identifier;
- and
- processing, by said billing service, a payment from said first subscriber to said second subscriber with said billing specifications.
A system comprising:
- a non-transitory memory storing subscriber authentication information comprising a first subscriber authenticated identifier;
- and
- one or more hardware processors in communication with said non-transitory memory and configured to:
- receive, by a billing service communicatively connected through a data network to a destination telephony device for a first subscriber, an authenticated identifier for said first subscriber at said destination telephony device during a data signal transmission with a second subscriber, wherein said authenticated identifier authenticates an identity of said first subscriber with a first subscriber voice authenticated identifier through a voice sample provided by said first subscriber during said data signal transmission from an authentication service communicatively connected with said data network;
- retrieve, by said billing service, billing specifications for said first subscriber according to said authenticated identifier;
- and
- process, by said billing service, a payment from said first subscriber to said second subscriber with said billing specifications.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a plurality of machine-readable instructions which when executed by one or more processors of a billing service are adapted to cause said billing service to perform a method comprising:
- receiving, by said billing service communicatively connected through a data network to a destination telephony device for a first subscriber, an authenticated identifier for said first subscriber at said destination telephony device during a data signal transmission with a second subscriber, wherein said authenticated identifier authenticates an identity of said first subscriber with a first subscriber voice authenticated identifier through a voice sample provided by said first subscriber during said data signal transmission from an authentication service communicatively connected with said data network;
- retrieving, by said billing service, billing specifications for said first subscriber according to said authenticated identifier;
- processing, by said billing service, a payment from said first subscriber to said second subscriber with said billing specifications;
- and
- transmitting said order form to said first subscriber at said destination device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.