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Billing records enhanced by called party names from subscriber phone book

Details

Inventors: Turner, Neil;
Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL)
Primary Examiner: Eng; George
Assistant Examiner: Cho; Un C.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Pace; Lalita W. Mancini; Brian M.

This invention relates to a cellular communication system (200), billing processor (223) and method of billing. The communication system includes a subscriber unit (201) having a user updateable identity to phone number association table used for dialling phone numbers based on an identity such as a name. It also includes means (203, 205,219,217) for communicating the table to a billing processor (223) being part of the fixed network. The billing processor (223) comprises means (227) for receiving the table and generating a billing association table containing information from the identity to phone number association table. It furthermore comprises a billing report generator (225) for generating a billing report for the subscriber unit (201) including identity information derived from the billing association table. The invention is applicable to cellular communication systems such as UMTS.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The inventors of the current invention have realised that conventional billing approaches are suboptimal for providing information to the subscriber and the invention seeks to provide an improved billing system offering improved information to the subscriber.
In accordance with a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cellular communication system as claimed in claim 1 In accordance with a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided method of billing in a cellular communication system as claimed in claim 7.
In accordance with a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a billing processor as claimed in claim 10.
Further aspects of the invention are as defined in the dependent claims.

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