Patent ID: 9198016
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for managing on an application service system one or more communications devices each associated with a user and a subscription account of a wireless service provider as identified by a wireless number, the method comprising the steps of: generating a first query to a first billing system of a first wireless service provider for charge data of the first one of the communications devices; receiving on the application service system charge data responsive to the first query; initiating a data communications link from the application service system to a second billing system of a different wireless service provider; logging into the second billing system with different administrator credentials associated with the enterprise by which at least one of the communication devices are managed; generating a second query to the second billing system of the different wireless service provider for charge data of a second one of the communications devices; receiving on the application service system charge data responsive to the second query; saving the charge data in a wireless device inventory database connected to the application service system, the wireless device inventory database including one or more device records each associated with a particular one of the communications devices and defined at least by a one of a wireless number and a charge record including one or more charge identifiers and corresponding charge amounts therefor, the charge data being stored in the charge record of a one of the device records for the communications device as designated by a device identifier included in the charge data; and generating on the application service system a report from the wireless device inventory database based upon at least a portion of an aggregate of data stored in the one of the device records.