Patent ID: 8260254
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method, in a network having access to a billing system, of debiting a subscriber's account for a charge-incurring use made by the subscriber of the network, comprising: receiving, by an intelligent (IN) gateway, a request to make a charge-incurring use of a network; establishing, in response to the receiving, a simulated call with a billing system, the establishing of a simulated call comprising: indicating to the billing system an amount of time for which the subscribers account is to be debited at the indicated billing rate thereby causing the subscriber's account to be debited a corresponding amount, wherein the period between requesting the authorization and indicating an amount of time is less than the indicated amount of time, and wherein the indicated amount of time reported to the billing system is not calculated from a period of time between requesting the authorization and indicating the amount of time to the billing system.