WO2003009574A1 - Paiement de frais supplementaires par la partie appelante - Google Patents

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WO2003009574A1
WO2003009574A1 PCT/GE2001/000002 GE0100002W WO03009574A1 WO 2003009574 A1 WO2003009574 A1 WO 2003009574A1 GE 0100002 W GE0100002 W GE 0100002W WO 03009574 A1 WO03009574 A1 WO 03009574A1
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Teimuraz Tchkadua
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M15/00—Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP
    • H04M15/47—Fraud detection or prevention means
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M15/00—Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M15/00—Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP
    • H04M15/68—Payment of value-added services
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M17/00—Prepayment of wireline communication systems, wireless communication systems or telephone systems
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M17/00—Prepayment of wireline communication systems, wireless communication systems or telephone systems
    • H04M2017/26—Prepayment of wireline communication systems, wireless communication systems or telephone systems with real-time recharging of account/card, e.g. if limit is reached during connection user is asked if he wants to recharge or not
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M2215/00—Metering arrangements; Time controlling arrangements; Time indicating arrangements
    • H04M2215/01—Details of billing arrangements
    • H04M2215/0148—Fraud detection or prevention means
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M2215/00—Metering arrangements; Time controlling arrangements; Time indicating arrangements
    • H04M2215/01—Details of billing arrangements
    • H04M2215/0196—Payment of value-added services, mainly when their charges are added on the telephone bill, e.g. payment of non-telecom services, e-commerce, on-line banking

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  • the present invention pertains to the telecommunications field and can be used to establish telecommunications with the subscribers who have debts as to their credit history.
  • value-added services such as the one which is disclosed in the US patent 51484474, which employ additional fees established for the services provided by them. Communication with these value-added services can be completed by dialing additional numbers by a calling party after which the service provider system allows to accomplish a communication with the service system.
  • the databases employed in telecommunication systems store credit parameters of each subscriber and in the event of a credit depletion and, subsequently, failure of the subscriber to meet some specific requirements of the telecommunication company the subscriber is disconnected either completely or in a one-direct-call manner, i.e. when the subscriber is given a determined time limit within which any other calling party is able to complete a call with him/her in a conventional manner.
  • European patent EP 0705019 discloses a telecommunication network where a subscriber can specify a limit on charges to be incurred on a telecommunication call. The telecommunication network, thereafter, maintains a running tally on the charges being incurred in the course of the telecommunication and notifies the caller when the charges approach the placed limit. At that time, the caller may specify a new limit, simply disconnect, or be automatically disconnected when the limit is reached.
  • the called party upon receipt of calls from selected calling parties and completion of communication is given an ability to credit to his/her account a portion of those charges which are to be paid by the calling parties.
  • the calling party has to pay with the communication charges in a conventional manner and, at this time, prior to completion of the telecommunication, the calling party is being advised that a surcharge will be incurred for completing the call. If the calling party accepts the surcharge the communication is completed and the called party is credited during the course of the communication with a portion of the surcharge.
  • the above described system is contemplated to perform a telephone marketing in a more effective way and to enable a higher percentage of calls with proposals of services to called parties from business organizations taking into account the fact that in most cases the called parties are disinterested to such service proposals, or otherwise are unwilling to be inundated by such calls. Consequently, despite the improvement of called parties credit the proposed system does not contemplate to collect money from disconnected (in a one-direction-call manner) subscribers.
  • the present invention has for its objective to provide a communication system that would enable to avoid the creation of debt of network subscribers and, respectively, their disconnection from the network, which would be undesirable to both the subscriber and the provider party.
  • the proposed by the present invention system contemplates shifting of the subscribers whose credit amount is below the threshold value to the service regime, wherein upon receiving incoming calls the calling parties who are trying to place calls to them are notified that if they are willing to establish connection with the called party a surcharge will be incurred for completing the call, and if the calling party accepts the surcharge the receiving number is automatically credited with a portion of the surcharge during the course of the communication.
  • Fig. 1 shows a block diagram illustrating a method for placing a surcharge on calling parties according to the present invention.
  • an individual places a call to a subscriber, and then the communication system performs identification of the caller as illustrated in box 2 to add a surcharge to the cost of the call if the calling party is willing to establish a connection with the subscriber.
  • the communication system then defines in step 3 whether the called party is out service (disconnected) or whether his/her credit amount is below the established threshold value, as shown in box 4. In case the subscriber's credit exceeds the established threshold value two party connection is established in a conventional manner without adding any surcharge to the cost of call and the calling party is billed according to the established fee for the communication.
  • the calling party is automatically notified of the surcharge if he/she is willing to be connected to the subscriber, as indicated at box 5. If, at this time, the caller accepts the surcharge he will have to confirm his willingness by pressing, for example, an appropriate key on his/her telephone. Failure to press the appropriate key on his/her telephone will be interpreted as non-acceptance of the surcharge and the call will be terminated consequently. After having confirmed his willing to accept the surcharge by pressing an appropriate key the caller is connected to the called party and his account is billed and the portion of the added fee is then automatically credited to the account of the subscriber as indicated at step 10.
  • the communication system is checking at the selected time intervals the credit parameters and optionally stops the billing of the surcharge directly in the course of communication and in the remaining time of the communication the surcharge no more is added to the cost of call.
  • the surcharge that is to be placed on the calling parties according to the above described procedure may be a portion of an established communication fee, for example 25 per cent thereof, etc.
  • the portion which is to be credited to the called party's account may be calculated by taking the expenditures that would be needed for operating appropriate network resources by the communication system into account, in particular, performing searches in databases, etc.
  • Minimum threshold value of the called party's credit account may be determined in various ways. For example, it may be above zero, or may equal to zero or even be less than zero taking the local conditions of the communication network into the consideration. This value can also be varied to contemplate some particular instances as well.
  • the subscriber who has been disconnected in one-direction-call manner is given an opportunity to place on his credit account certain amount of sum which should be limited by established maximum value, for example ten dollars, by dialing special access number.
  • the credit shall give him capability to place calls prior to the incoming calls and, respectively, before replenishing his account by placing a surcharge on the calling parties, especially when urgent calls are needed to be placed.
  • the subscriber will have to dial specified access code, for example *46, on his touch-tone telephone which will be followed by an announcement from the operator system by audible, visual indicator etc., such as: "Please enter the amount of the credit for charges of the calls.”
  • the subscriber then enters the amount he is willing to have as credit and becomes capable of placing calls in a normal way.
  • the communication provider system in accordance with the entered credit amount, establishes new threshold value for the step 4 (Fig 1) which differs from the previously established threshold value by the amount having been dialed by the subscriber.
  • the above-described mechanism of placing a credit can have a particular practical value in instances where the subscriber has been disconnected, or the established threshold value for the step 4 (Fig 1) equals to or is less than zero. These are the cases when the subscriber has debt with respect to the provider and, naturally, he would not be able to make calls until his credit has been replenished by placing a surcharge on the calling party in accordance with the above-described procedure contemplated by the present invention. For example, if the subscriber who has been disconnected is in need of placing a call he/she dials the specified access code and then having received the prompt for the credit amount from the operator he continues to dial the amount of the credit. In that particular case when the subscriber has zero debt the dialed amount of the credit will equal to the established threshold value applied at the step 4 (Fig 1).
  • conventional billing apparatus can be employed in practice, that is used in exchange carriers.
  • the service processor of the exchange carriers which includes service logic for processing calls, a database and announcement facilities, after the electronic identification step of the calling party's number causes an announcement to be plaid on the magnetic tape or causes dual tone multifrequency_digits to be collected.
  • the database stores records which include information about each subscriber, as well as billing parameters etc.
  • the service logic represents the conventional processing equipment and software needed to store, retrieve, and process records in the database, and to communicate with switch of the exchange carrier and the signaling network.
  • the switch of the exchange carrier communicates the dialed number to the service processor.
  • the service processor uses the dialed number to retrieve a record which specifies features of the called party. Then the service processor causes an announcement concerning the pricing of the call to be played to the calling party. This time the service processor sends a standard message (e.g. SS7TCAP) to the switch to activate the announcement facilities. For example, switch may play an announcement such as: "Your call has been placed to a subscriber who has been disconnected. If you wish to complete this call you will be charged additional 25 per cent of the cost per minute to cover the debt of the subscriber. If you wish to pay the surcharge, please press the key (specifying which key to be pressed) on your telephone. Otherwise please hang up now".
  • the service processor instructs the switch to record billing information to be used by the billing system to bill the caller for completing a call with the disconnected called party.
  • the described mechanism of placing a credit according to the second aspect of the present invention may, for example, be accomplished by the application of a dual tone multifrequency detector which should be located in the unidirectional path in the carrier switch network.
  • the detector would receive touch tone digits corresponding to the access code and the amount of credit dialed by the caller and then communicates these digits to the service processor for making required modifications in the appropriate record of the database.
  • the implementation of the proposed method of placing a surcharge on the calling party can be utilized in various environments including switched connections for voice communication, data communication, video conferencing etc., and implemented in various channels, as are voice grade channels (DSO), Tl channels, STS-1 channels, etc.
  • DSO voice grade channels
  • Tl channels Tl channels
  • STS-1 channels etc.
  • the method for completing the communication and collection of money which is proposed by the present invention can particularly be applicable to regions settled by socially unprotected people, developing countries, etc.

Abstract

La présente invention concerne un procédé de télécommunications payées par la partie appelante. Selon le procédé, la partie appelante qui lance un appel vers un abonné est avertie qu'une surtaxe lui sera facturée si elle établit l'appel, et l'appel n'est établi que si la partie appelante accepte la surtaxe et que cette dernière lui est facturée. La partie appelée est alors créditée d'une partie de la surtaxe. Dans un autre aspect, l'invention concerne la possibilité pour l'abonné de créditer son compte d'une certaine somme en composant un code d'accès et en composant ensuite le montant du crédit au moment où il ou elle est invité(e) à indiquer ce montant par l'opérateur.
PCT/GE2001/000002 2001-07-20 2001-08-15 Paiement de frais supplementaires par la partie appelante WO2003009574A1 (fr)

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EP1844421A2 (fr) * 2005-01-21 2007-10-17 J2 Global Communications Procede de gestion d'un compte client

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DE19939913A1 (de) * 1999-08-25 2001-03-08 Joachim Thees Verfahren zur Abrechnung von Geldbeträgen

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WO2004100520A1 (fr) * 2003-05-09 2004-11-18 Ari Kahn Procede de transfert de temps d'utilisation dans un reseau de telephonie
EP1844421A2 (fr) * 2005-01-21 2007-10-17 J2 Global Communications Procede de gestion d'un compte client
EP1844421A4 (fr) * 2005-01-21 2009-03-18 J2 Global Comm Procede de gestion d'un compte client
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