Patent ID: 7660755

Claim:
A method for managing rollover usage units for a subscriber to a rollover feature of one or more communication services, comprising: employing a processor executing computer executable instructions stored on a computer-readable medium to implement acts including: receiving and storing rollover data elements, the rollover data elements include a subscriber identification and a balance of the rollover usage units available to offset an amount of overage units used in excess of an amount of package plan usage units available to the subscriber for a current billing cycle, the balance of the rollover usage units available includes one or more unused and unexpired package plan usage units rolled over from at least one previous billing cycle; receiving a request from a requesting entity for the rollover data elements associated with the subscriber; presenting the rollover data elements for the subscriber identified in the request, the rollover data elements include the subscriber identification and the balance of the rollover usage units available to offset the amount of overage units used in the current billing cycle, the balance of the rollover usage units measured in at least one of a plurality of billable units and available to be converted from a first billable unit type associated with a first communication service to a second billable unit type associated with a second communication service, one or more of the rollover usage units expire after X billing cycles of being available to offset the amount of overage units used by the subscriber, and X comprises a predetermined number which varies depending on a package plan of the subscriber; and presenting the rollover data elements to at least one accounting system, the presented rollover data elements include the amount of rollover usage units accumulated during the current billing cycle, and in response to the rollover data elements being presented, the accounting system defers revenue associated with the amount of rollover usage units accumulated during the current billing cycle to one or more subsequent billing cycles until the rollover usage units at least one of become depleted or expire.