Patent ID: 8032114

Claim:
A method for handling a service authorization request (SAR) from a mobile subscriber, said SAR representing a request for access to a prepaid mobile service, comprising: ascertaining, by a computer using a suspect subscriber list, whether said SAR is associated with a suspect subscriber in said suspect subscriber list prior to obtaining an authorization response from response-determinative processing performed on said SAR, wherein said authorization response provides one of approval and disapproval to access said prepaid mobile service associated with said SAR; in response to ascertaining that said SAR is not associated with any suspect subscriber in said suspect subscriber list, authorizing, by the computer, said SAR to access said prepaid mobile service without first obtaining said authorization response; and after said authorizing, obtaining said authorization response by performing said response-determinative processing on said SAR concurrently with the mobile subscriber who issued said SAR accessing said prepaid mobile service.