Patent ID: 7085360
Filing Date: 2006-08-01
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A method of auditing billing records in a telecommunications system having a billing chain comprising origination devices, billing generation devices, and a billing device, said method comprising: retrieving and storing a first set of call data records from an origination device; retrieving and storing a second set of call data records from a billing generation device; retrieving and storing a set of call billing records from a billing device; performing bi-directional reconciliation of each call data record from said first set of call data records, said second set of call data records and said set of call billing records so as to identify any call data records that do not correspond to a call billing record and any call billing records that do not correspond to a call data record; and generating an error report providing a record of (i) errors identified through said bidirectional reconciliation and (ii) a device of said billing chain associated with each error.