Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120276867 | SYSTEMS FOR ENABLING SUBSCRIBER MONITORING OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK USAGE AND SERVICE PLANS - Methods, servers and systems for directly accessing and modify charging information maintained within a telecommunications operator's business and operating systems' infrastructure from user equipment. A mobile application server may receive a charging request from a user equipment, identify a relevant charging system based on the received request, send a charging request to the identified charging system for processing, receive a first response message including charging information from the identified charging system, generate a second response message based on the charging information included in the first response message, and send the generated second response message to the user equipment. The received charging request may include various types of information, including information for transferring cost or billing information from a first billing category to a second billing category. | 11-01-2012 |
20130151710 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS OF ORCHESTRATION AND APPLICATION OF BUSINESS RULES FOR REAL-TIME CONTROL OF SUBSCRIBERS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS OPERATOR'S NETWORK - The various embodiments include methods, computing devices and communication systems for controlling services in a communications network. A communications server may be configured to receive bounding information from a first server, decision making information from a second server, and a request to generate a decision from any of a number of different systems or components. The communications server may define bounds for generating the decision based on the received bounding information, and generate the decision based on the received decision making information and defined bounds. The communication server may send the generated decision to a third server implementing a functional system, such as a server in policy management system, policy enforcement system, charging system, or mobile application server system. | 06-13-2013 |
20130196623 | System and Method For Enabling Interactions Between a Policy Decision Point and a Charging System - A system and method for telecommunications operators to enable group based dynamic policy controls for both pre-paid and post-paid subscribers, who are typically not managed in an Online Charging System (OCS), but rather in an Charging System or a Billing System. Examples of policy controls that may be enabled by this invention include tracking spending for post-paid subscribers, managing subscriber usage across fixed-line and mobile networks, and so on. This is achieved by introducing a new component called the Enhanced Charging System (ECS) and creating a new reference point and interface between the Policy Management System and the ECS. | 08-01-2013 |
20140038549 | System and Method for Controlling Advanced Triggering Operations in a Telecommunication Network - A network server may be configured to communicate triggers across a telecommunication network by receiving a trigger communication message that includes information suitable for causing a destination machine-to-machine device to perform operations in response to receiving the trigger communication message, receiving policy or charging information from a component in the telecommunication network, determining whether the trigger communication message should be sent to the destination machine-to-machine based on the received policy or charging information, and sending the trigger communication message to the destination component only when it is determined that the trigger communication message should be sent to the destination machine-to-machine based on the received policy or charging information. | 02-06-2014 |
20140058908 | System and Method for Performing Offline Revenue Assurance of Data Usage - The system and methods of the various embodiments enable a revenue assurance system to detect revenue leakage by analyzing usage records from one or more sources within a telecommunications network. Discrepancies are identified and corrective action taken where possible. Corrective actions may include requesting source systems to retransmit missing or erroneous records that were detected. This may result in reduced revenue loss for the network operator. | 02-27-2014 |
20140378094 | System and Method for Dynamically Allocating Quota for Shared Balances in Distributed Telecommunications Networks - Systems and computing devices may be configured to intelligently and dynamically allocate quotas for the access and use of a telecommunications network by consumers that use a shared balance account. The dynamic allocation of quotas may include computing a total reclaimable quota size value in response to determining that quota may not be allocated to a first consumer from the shared account balance without exceeding a balance threshold, reclaiming all or portions of currently active allocated quotas from a other consumers that use the shared balance account in response to determining that the total reclaimable quota size value is greater than or equal to the minimum quota allocation size, updating the shared account balance to include the reclaimed portions, and allocating quota to the first consumer from the updated shared balance account. | 12-25-2014 |
20150079929 | Systems and Methods for Enabling Subscriber Monitoring of Telecommunications Network Usage and Service Plans - Methods, servers and systems for directly accessing and modifying charging information maintained within a telecommunications operator's business and operating systems' infrastructure from user equipment. A mobile application server may receive a charging request from a user equipment, identify a relevant charging system based on the received request, send a charging request to the identified charging system for processing, receive a first response message including charging information from the identified charging system, generate a second response message based on the charging information included in the first response message, and send the generated second response message to the user equipment. The received charging request may include various types of information, including information for transferring cost or billing information from a first billing category to a second billing category. | 03-19-2015 |
20150094019 | Systems for Enabling Subscriber Monitoring of Telecommunications Network Usage and Service Plans - Methods, servers and systems for directly accessing and modifying charging information maintained within a telecommunications operator's business and operating systems' infrastructure from user equipment. A mobile application server may receive a charging request from a user equipment, identify a relevant charging system based on the received request, send a charging request to the identified charging system for processing, receive a first response message including charging information from the identified charging system, generate a second response message based on the charging information included in the first response message, and send the generated second response message to the user equipment. The received charging request may include various types of information, including information for transferring cost or billing information from a first billing category to a second billing category. | 04-02-2015 |