Handling insufficient account balance of subscribers
AssigneeWest Corporation
InventorsKuen-Yih Hwang, John Lawrence Snapp
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Abstract
A system, method, and computer readable medium comprising instructions for handling insufficient account balance of subscribers in a mobile communications network is disclosed. A request for communication is received from a mobile station. A determination is made as to whether a subscriber of the mobile station has an insufficient account balance. If the subscriber has an insufficient account balance, the request is withheld and the mobile station is notified by a short message.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- determining if a subscriber of a destination mobile station has an insufficient account balance;
- withholding a request for communication from a mobile station;
- notifying the destination mobile station if the subscriber has an insufficient account balance;
- and
- notifying the mobile station of the insufficient account balance, regardless of whether a voice call or a short messaging service via the mobile station is in progress, wherein the notification comprises instructions regarding how to recover the withheld request for communication.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that when read by a processor cause the processor to perform:
- determining if a subscriber of a destination mobile station has an insufficient account balance;
- withholding a request for communication from a mobile station;
- notifying the destination mobile station if the subscriber has an insufficient account balance;
- and
- notifying the mobile station of the insufficient account balance, regardless of whether a voice call or a short messaging service via the mobile station is in progress, wherein the notification comprises instructions regarding how to recover the withheld request for communication.
A system, comprising:
- at least one mobile station;
- at least one mobile switching center communicably connected to the at least one mobile station and at least one short message service center;
- at least one short message service center communicably connected to at least one mobile switching center;
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- a server communicably connected to the at least one short message service center,
- wherein the at least one short message service center:
- determines if a subscriber of a destination mobile station has an insufficient account balance;
- withholds a request for communication from a mobile station;
- notifies the destination mobile station if the subscriber has an insufficient account balance;
- and
- notifies the mobile station of the insufficient account balance, regardless of whether a voice call or a short messaging service via the mobile station is in progress, wherein the notification comprises instructions regarding how to recover the withheld request for communication.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.