System and method for generating call records based on account codes

US6792089B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SBC Properties, L.P. · US

Inventors

• Dianna Tiliks · Elk Grove Village, US
• Carol Shifrin Gruchala · Naperville, US
• Susanne Marie Crockett · Buffalo Grove, US
• John Wesley Moss · Lake Zurich, US
• Nancy Book · Naperville, US
• William Moy · Wheeling, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 14, 2001
• Grant date: Sep 14, 2004
• Expiry date: Feb 22, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04M2215/54
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

However, the current call detail record system has certain drawbacks. For example, specific billing information is ordinarily tracked and available for calls made from one local access and transport area (LATA) to another (i.e., interLATA or long distance calls). Billing and usage information for calls within the same LATA (i.e., intraLATA or local calls), including local toll calls, are not maintained by the network or otherwise accessible to the network provider and customers. Therefore, the customers are not able to track intraLATA calls in the same manner as interLATA calls. For example, customers may desire identifying codes to be entered next to each charged call in order to facilitate subsequent billing of the customers' respective clients.