Patent ID: 7873152
Filing Date: 2011-01-18
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A rating method, comprising: identifying a phone call between a caller and a receiver; determining a plurality of offers associated with the receiver from a database including users with associated offers, each of the associated offers further associated with a different type of call; determining a plurality of offers associated with the caller from the database; consolidating information associated with the offers associated with the receiver and the offers associated with the caller into a single record; comparing characteristics associated with a type of the phone call against the single record; determining one of the offers associated with the receiver and one of the offers associated with the caller that apply to the phone call, based on the comparison; and rating the phone call based, at least in part, on a combination of the one of the offers associated with the receiver, and the one of the offers associated with the caller; wherein the rating is altered if the offer associated with the receiver is the same as the offer associated with the caller.