Patent №
US 8,634,804
Granted
2014-01-21
Filed 2009
Owner
AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
Lab
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AI components
1
kr
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12632165
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed which relate to billing users of a telecommunication network. A billing server is in communication with a geo-fence database. The geo-fence database contains a plurality of geo-fences. Some geo-fences are associated with a single mobile communication devices, such as a home geo-fence, work geo-fence, etc., while other geo-fences are global, such as a stadium geo-fence, toll geo-fence, etc. When a mobile communication device enters the perimeter of a geo-fence, a billing server changes the billing rate at which connections are billed to the user account or bills another user account. The mobile communication device may send a ticket code to the billing server for a reduced billing rate while within a geo-fence. If a mobile communication device enters a toll geo-fence, then the billing server charges the user account for the toll.
AI classification
Ownership
AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
assignment · 236130178
Assignors
MCNAMARA, JUSTIN MICHAEL ANTHONY, DAVIS, JOHN POTTS, III, RECTOR, JAY DARYL
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