Patent ID: 8351419

Claim:
A method for billing a subscriber to a cellular telephone service for a VoIP call made by the subscriber using a wireless local area network, the method comprising: receiving said VoIP call via a public data network, said VoIP call originating from said subscriber using a local device that is coupled to said public data network via said wireless local area network; decoding at least a portion of said VoIP call to obtain session information related to said VoIP call, said session information including information identifying said subscriber; sending said VoIP call to a remote device; and sending at least a portion of said session information to a provider of said cellular telephone service, thereby enabling said cellular telephone service provider to bill said subscriber, and not an owner of said wireless local area network, for said VoIP call, wherein said subscriber is a different entity than said owner; and initiating a credit to an account associated with said owner of said wireless local area network thereby preventing said owner from incurring charges associated with said VoIP call.