Patent ID: 6650887
Filing Date: 2003-11-18
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
Software for a telephone system comprising:internal accounting software for a cordless hand-held mobile telephone unit to establish an account with a representation of prepaid funds or available credit, to store a plurality of charge rates and to store a billing algorithm which can classify each telephone call into one of a plurality of billing categories, select a charge rate corresponding to that billing category, calculate an appropriate charge for that telephone call in real time by using said selected charge rate and apply this appropriate charge to said account; and software for one or more system provider host processors which stores mobile telephone unit identification information, stores operating codes needed for mobile phone unit activation and stores operating codes needed for setting prepaid funds or available credit amounts in mobile phone unit accounts whereby, upon receipt of mobile telephone unit identification information from a particular mobile phone unit or its user, said host processor software is capable of ascertaining the operating codes needed to activate that particular mobile phone unit or to set its account amount.