Title:
ALTERNATIVE WIRELESS TELEPHONE ROAMING USING PREPAID SERVICES
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2003041331
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A method and system (95) are provided for registering and operating a wireless telephone (55) roaming service area in which the wireless phone is not registered for roaming services. When a wireless telephone (55) is operated in a such a roaming service area, the roaming service provider whose services the wireless telephone must utilize in order to operate in the roaming service area informs the user of the wireless telephone through a recorded or live message that the wireless telephone may be used in the roaming service area if the user of the wireless telephone purchases and uses a prepaid utilization account offered by the roaming service provider (90). If the user purchases a prepaid card and loads a balance into a prepaid utilization account, a prepaid services system (80) of the roaming service provider establishes a pseudo-telephone number for use by the wireless telephone in the roaming service area. The user's home service provider (85) is notified that all calls directed to the user's permanent wireless telephone number should be forwarded to the pseudo-number assigned to the wireless telephone. After this registration process is completed, calls may be placed to and from the wireless telephone in the roaming service area (90), and billing for those calls will be directed to the prepaid utilization account purchased by the user.
Inventors:
SHERMAN STEPHEN (US)
FELDSTEIN COREY (US)
FELDSTEIN COREY (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2002/035442
Publication Date:
October 16, 2003
Filing Date:
November 04, 2002
Export Citation:
Assignee:
BELLSOUTH INTELLECT PTY CORP (US)
SHERMAN STEPHEN (US)
FELDSTEIN COREY (US)
SHERMAN STEPHEN (US)
FELDSTEIN COREY (US)
International Classes:
H04M17/00; H04W4/24; (IPC1-7): H04M11/00; H04M15/00
Foreign References:
| US6236857B1 | 2001-05-22 | |||
| US6185414B1 | 2001-02-06 | |||
| US5778313A | 1998-07-07 |
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