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Debit service systems and methods for wireless units
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Inventors: Kirby, Richard Steven;
Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Primary Examiner: Trost; William
Assistant Examiner: Gesesse; Tilahun
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
Systems and methods for exchanging information, and particularly debit information, between a visited and a home wireless network with respect to a wireless unit operating in the visited network. A translator is provided which includes a receiver for receiving data relating to the unit from the visited network, a translator application for translating and/or formatting the data into a standard inter-network communications message, and a transmitter for transmitting the standard message to the home network. The translator may receive data from a debit platform of the visited network. The translator may format the data into the standard message, preferably an IS-41 message. This standard message may be received by a translator at the home network. The home translator may extract the data from the standard message, translate the data and provide the data to the debit platform of the home network. After the home debit platform determines the authorization information with respect to the unit, the home translator may translate and format the authorization information into a standard inter-network communications response message, preferably, an IS-41 response message. The home translator transmits this standard response message to the visited network, where the visited translator may receive the response message, extract the authorization information, translate this information and then to provide the authorization information to the visited debit platform. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention solves the problems of the prior art by providing methods and systems that facilitate the exchange of information, and in particular, debit information, between wireless networks with respect to a specific wireless unit.
As is described briefly in this summary and then with greater particularity in the detailed description, a first type of embodiment of the present invention provides a translator and also provides a method for exchanging information such as debit information relating to a specific wireless unit between a visited wireless network where the unit is roaming and the home wireless network of the unit.
Another type of embodiment of the present invention provides a service system and also provides a method for facilitating the transmission of information such as debit information with respect to a roaming wireless unit from the visited wireless network to the home wireless network of the wireless unit.
Yet another type of embodiment of the present invention provides a debit service system for obtaining information with respect to providing telecommunication services to a wireless unit in a visited wireless network.
The information is obtained from the home wireless network of the unit and used by the visited wireless network.
Additional embodiments based on the principles of the present invention described herein will occur to those skilled in the art.
Advantageously, the present invention overcomes the limitations of previous systems and methods by adapting an existing communications network to exchange information such as debit information between wireless networks with respect to a specific wireless unit.
Preferably, this existing communications network is the cellular mobile radiotelephone (CMR) system.
Telecommunications service providers have already installed the necessary equipment to support nationwide communications to create an overall CMR system through individual CMR networks.
The inventor has recognized that the CMR system is an existing communications architecture which can be adapted in a novel manner to supply communications with minimal impact upon the well known communications offered by the CMR system
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