410 results about "Real-time charging" patented technology

A prepaid messaging solution which uses open networking standards (e.g., TCP / IP) and which supports pre-payment of enhanced Internet messaging services. The disclosed prepaid architectures and methods accurately determine if a subscriber has sufficient account balance to deliver a complete short message, prior to delivery of the message. The short message may be prevented from being delivered (either at the source end or at the destination end) if insufficient funds are in the subscriber's account. A prepaid tariff engine is preferably extensible over a TCP / IP network, and supports remote interaction with the SMSC and web chat servers for the purpose of applying a real-time billing charge for each message. A service provider may create subscriber classes of service that define and uniquely identify subscriber rate and / or tariffing plans used to apply real-time billing charges for sending or receiving of messages. The prepaid short message tariff engine determines the appropriate message billing based upon, e.g., flat rate per message, message count (e.g., 10 messages @ $ 5.00), character count (e.g., $0.01 / char.), Time of Day, Day of Week (i.e., peak & non-peak hours), type of message, and / or mobile location (i.e., network point code). The prepaid short messaging service preferably supports Internet web page access to subscriber's relating to their short messaging account balances and status maintained in the prepaid short messaging database of the prepaid messaging server.

Advanced group services for use in a mobile phone network include a prepaid billing solution. In the mobile phone network, a real-time exchange interfaces to at least one mobile switching center to provide the advanced group services therein. Both the real-time exchange and the mobile phones that use the advanced group services communicate with each other using call setup and in-band signaling within the mobile phone network, wherein the real-time exchange switches the voice frames for the advanced group services between the mobile phones across bearer paths and through at least one mobile switching center in the mobile phone network. A real-time billing mechanism is provided for a prepaid subscriber of the advanced group services. The real-time billing mechanism may use a prefix-based billing solution or a charging number based billing solution.

The invention belongs to the technical field of charging of an electric vehicle, in particular to a battery charger with an active protection function and a charging method. The battery charger comprises a power conversion module group, a monitoring unit and an output module group, wherein the power conversion module group is connected with the monitoring unit and the output module group; the monitoring unit is connected with the output module group; the battery charger is connected with the electric vehicle through the output module group, so as to charge the electric vehicle; when the battery charger is connected with the electric vehicle, the battery charger communicates with a BMS of the vehicle. The output module group can conduct data interaction with the BMS in the electric vehicle in real time, so as to obtain the real-time charging data of a power battery of the BMS; according to a warning value and a threshold value, the output module group can be used for judging whether the BMS and the power battery are abnormal or not during a charging process; when the BMS and the battery data reach the warning value, an alarm is given out, and when the BMS and the battery data reach the threshold value, charging is stopped.

A computer method, system and apparatus for generating and tracking time expended by professionals in providing services to their clients on a realtime basis with all services performed through use of a computer including the realtime tracking and generation of billing entries with respect to the daily generation of Internet-based and local area network (LAN) documents and other Internet-based services such as preparation of e-mails and legal research, through integration with existing computer-based systems and programs.