Patent ID: 7890139

Claim:
A method for providing pre-paid services over a radio communication network to a telecommunication device comprising a user identification circuit, the method comprising the steps of: receiving at the user identification circuit at least one service request generated by the telecommunication device; for each service request received from the telecommunication device, communicating a user identification message from the user identification circuit to the telecommunication device, each user identification message corresponding to each particular service request including a service identifier that identifies that particular service request; transmitting at least one service request message over the radio communication network from the user identification circuit to a service computer, wherein the at least one service request message requests allocation of at least one service; receiving a pre-paid account status message over the radio communication network from the service computer to the user identification circuit in response to each service request message, wherein the user identification circuit evaluates the pre-paid account status message; and for each evaluated pre-paid account status message received at the user identification circuit, communicating an account status result message from the user identification circuit to the telecommunication device to allocate use of the corresponding requested service when the evaluated pre-paid account status message indicates a specific result, each account status result message including the service identifier that identifies the particular service request corresponding to that account status result message such that the telecommunication device can match the account status result message with the user identification message that included the same service identifier.