Appeal 2007-1751
Application 09/769,511
1 06. Thus, “user-specified access cost information” is information in some
2 way pertaining to costs that are stated, either directly or indirectly, by the
3 user as a condition for the ability to communicate with a user.
4 Greene
5 07. Greene is directed towards adding a surcharge to the cost per call for
6 telephone solicitations and for crediting a portion of the surcharge to the
7 account of the person called (Green, col. 1, ll. 8-11).
8 08. In one embodiment of Greene’s invention, the subscriber's specified
9 call billing parameters are incorporated into a standard Automatic
10 Message Accounting record which is generated by a carrier switch
11 network for each call. This record is sent to a billing system which
12 processes the charges for inclusion in the network bill sent to the caller
13 and credits a portion of those charges to the account of the person called
14 (Greene, col. 2, ll. 61-67).
15 09. If a call using Greene’s invention is made from a preselected number,
16 i.e., a number which has been approved for direct access to the
17 subscriber, the call is completed in a conventional manner. However, if
18 the number of the calling party is not on the list of pre-approved
19 numbers, the call is identified as a telephone solicitation, and the
20 automated answering system advises the person making the call that a
21 surcharge may or will (at the subscriber's option) be added to their bill
22 (Green, col. 3, ll. 43-51).
1 American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed. 2000).
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