US Patent No: 6,205,210

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Method for improved automatic message accounting in telephony

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Abstract

A method for improved automatic message accounting in telephony systems and the like, wherein actual call routing set-up is stored at the time of a call being answered by a called subscriber station; and the data conveying the actual call routing set-up is packaged in a data field of a message for upstream transmission through the actual call routes.

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Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddressTotal Patents
NORTEL NETWORKS LIMITEDMONTREAL QUEBEC1734

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Melnyk, Allan Box 866, High Prairie, Alberta, CA 3 28
Rainey, Gordon L Kanata, CA 1 18

Cited Art

Patent Info (Count) # Cites Year
 
AT&T CORP. (2)
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AT&T IPM CORP. (1)
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BELLSOUTH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION (1)
5,748,717 Method and system for assigning a communication to a preferred carrier for accounting and/or communication routing purposes 16 1996
 
FUJITSU LIMITED (1)
5,511,113 Service switching point and system for creating detailed charging information 37 1994
 
INTELLECTUAL VENTURES II LLC (1)
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STENTOR RESOURCE CENTRE INC. (1)
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UNISYS CORPORATION (1)
5,712,908 Apparatus and method for generating call duration billing records utilizing ISUP messages in the CCS/SS7 telecommunications network 145 1996

Patent Citation Ranking

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TEKELEC, INC. (5)
7,889,716 Methods, systems, and computer program products for using an E.164 number (ENUM) database for message service message routing resolution among 2G and subsequent generation network systems 6 2005
8,254,551 Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing quality of service using E.164 number mapping (ENUM) data in a communications network 0 2006
7,787,445 Methods, systems, and computer program products for routing and processing ENUM queries 10 2007
7,996,541 Methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying a serving home subscriber server (HSS) in a communications network 3 2007
8,224,337 Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing foreign routing address information to a telecommunications network gateway 0 2010
 
TEKELEC GLOBAL, INC. (3)
7,848,767 Methods and systems for migrating between application layer mobile signaling protocols 0 2003
7,190,772 Methods and systems for automatically and accurately generating call detail records for calls associated with ported subscribers 10 2004
7,916,857 Methods, systems, and computer readable media for selectively processing or redirecting signaling connection control part (SCCP) messages 5 2007
 
SBC PROPERTIES, L.P. (2)
6,792,089 System and method for generating call records based on account codes 9 2001
7,095,833 System and method for generating call records based on account codes 0 2004
 
ALCATEL (1)
6,570,977 Connection setup method, service control point, and communications network 2 1999
 
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P. (1)
7,809,122 System and method for generating call records based on account codes 0 2006
 
LG-ERICSSON CO., LTD. (1)
6,693,991 Priority auto-control method of signal routes in No. 7 signaling network 1 2000
 
QUALCOMM INCORPORATED (1)
6,577,719 Method and system for the processing of tariff data 2 2001
 
QWEST COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INC. (1)
7,152,200 Internet-based database report writer and customer data management system 9 1997
 
SBC KNOWLEDGE VENTURES, L.P. (1)
7,388,948 AMA access over local audit analysis (AAOLA) 4 2004
 
TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (1)
7,103,345 Call information output in a telecommunication network 0 1999
 
Other [Check patent profile for assignment information] (1)
8,452,325 Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing scalable number portability (NP) home location register (HLR) 0 2010