Patent ID: 8406792
Filing Date: 2013-03-26
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04Q,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: identifying, by a computer hardware processor, the group membership conditions of a sending party and a recipient of a message; selecting, by the hardware processor, a rule based on the group membership conditions of the sending party and the recipient of the message, wherein the rule is specified by the identified group of the sending party and the recipient of the message and the rule dictates a billing action and a message modification tag based on the group membership condition of the sending party and the recipient of the message; selecting, by the hardware processor, a billing action and a message modification tag based on the predetermined rules; transmitting, by the hardware processor, the message to the recipient of the message, wherein the message is appended with the selected message modification tag; transmitting, by the hardware processor, a second message to the sending party, wherein the second message is appended with a second message modification tag specified by the selected rule; and billing, by the hardware processor, the sending party and the recipient of the message according to the selected billing action.