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(12) PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATION (21) Application No.1576/DELNP/2004 A
(19) INDIA
(22) Date of filing of Application :07/06/2004 (43) Publication Date : 16/03/2007
(54) Title of the invention : "METHOD OF AND EQUIPMENT FOR CREDIT MANAGEMENT FOR ACCESS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS
NETWORK"
(51) International classification :H04M 17/00 (71)Name of Applicant :
(31) Priority Document No :NA
1)TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
(32) Priority Date : -
Address of Applicant :S-164 83 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN. Sweden
(33) Name of priority country :U.S.A. (72)Name of Inventor :
(86) International Application No
:PCT/EP02/00382 1)PETER REGINALD LEWIS
Filing Date
:09/01/2002
(87) International Publication No :WO 03/058943
(61) Patent of Addition to Application Number
:NA
Filing Date
:NA
(62) Divisional to to Application Number
:NA
Filing Date
:NA
No of Pages : 13 No of Claims : 22
(57) Abstract :
This invention describes a method for carrying out forced booking of reserved credits for the credit management of prepaid accounts within a multi service
telecommunications environment. This method can be used in a multi service telecommunications environment (1), wherein a credit management system (8)
is in communicative connection with a number of service provisioning systems (3-7), using a telecommunications network (2) and where at least one user of
an account can access the network by both mobile and fixed access means (10, 11, 13), characterized in that the credit management system (8) is arranged for
carrying out a forced booking in order to update account balance information.
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