CA2136368A1 - System for Completing Air-to-Ground Telephone Calls - Google Patents

System for Completing Air-to-Ground Telephone Calls

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CA2136368A1
CA2136368A1 CA2136368A CA2136368A CA2136368A1 CA 2136368 A1 CA2136368 A1 CA 2136368A1 CA 2136368 A CA2136368 A CA 2136368A CA 2136368 A CA2136368 A CA 2136368A CA 2136368 A1 CA2136368 A1 CA 2136368A1
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call
telephone
calling
completing
billing
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CA2136368A
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CA2136368C (en
Inventor
Brenda B. Amarant
Erik Nelson Breden
Thomas Arthur Dunn
Michael Walter Funk
Stephen M. Kocan
Ilane Leslie Mathews
Kari O'connell
Mark Calvin Pollman
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AT&T Corp
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American Telephone and Telegraph Co Inc
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M15/00—Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M17/00—Prepayment of wireline communication systems, wireless communication systems or telephone systems
    • H04M17/02—Coin-freed or check-freed systems, e.g. mobile- or card-operated phones, public telephones or booths

Abstract

A system for completing air-to-ground telephone calls is arranged so that a call originatirig from an aircraft is received in a ground station and directed to a special purpose platform disposed in the land-based telecommunications network.
The platform, which may be implemented as an interactive voice response system, includes the capability to interact with the caller by (a) collecting billing information, which may be a commercial credit card or a telephone calling card, or other billing mechanism which can be initiated by a request for connection to a telephone operator; (b) validating credit cards and telephone calling cards by initiating a query and receiving a response from elements in the telecommunications network or from an external database; (c) providing auxiliary features such as block calling, free calls, speed dialing, sequence calling, etc.; and (d) depending upon the type of call involved, completing the call as either a traditional 1+ long distance call, or as a 0+ (e.g., operator assisted) call. After completion of each call, an automated message accounting (AMA) billing record is created and transmitted to the network, for bill processing. (Fig. 1)
CA002136368A 1993-12-30 1994-11-22 System for completing air-to-ground telephone calls Expired - Fee Related CA2136368C (en)

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US176,006 1993-12-30
US08/176,006 US5592539A (en) 1993-12-30 1993-12-30 System for completing air-to-ground telephone calls

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