Mobile service primary subscriber with secondary subscribers

摘要

Various embodiments illustrated and described herein include at least one of systems, software, and methods to perform one or more tasks such as quoting wireless service plans, receiving wireless service orders, generating wireless service contracts, and effectuating these contracts in a wireless service network. In particular, such embodiments provide mechanisms through which a primary subscriber is allowed to choose wireless services for a primary subscriber and one or more secondary subscribers with differing and customizable service levels while having a single rate-plan, which may be pre-paid, post-paid, or a combination thereof. These embodiments are facilitated by an application that allows for defining and capturing of one rate plan that covers wireless services for a plurality of subscribers each having different pre-paid or post-paid accounts with an ability for each subscriber to have differing services and service levels.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving first input within a quotation module of a software system to generate a quote for a primary wireless subscriber account, the first input including data identifying a primary subscriber, data identifying at least one secondary subscriber, and data identifying mobile devices of each subscriber; receiving second input with regard to the primary subscriber and each of the at least one secondary subscribers individually designating them as either post-paid or pre-paid subscribers; receiving third input with regard to the primary subscriber and each of the at least one secondary subscribers individually designating services and service levels of each service; receiving at least one fourth input with regard to a particular service of a secondary subscriber setting an overage rule for the particular service, the overage rule for the particular service to allow usage of the particular service when the service level of the particular service has been reached or exceeded and designating apportionment of charges for overage usage to the primary subscriber when overage usage is to be allowed; based on the first, second, third, and fourth inputs, generating and presenting a cost quotation; and storing the cost quotation on a data storage device; receiving an order input with regard to the cost quotation; generating a single contract data structure having data comprising indicators of the primary subscriber and each secondary subscriber, a cost from the cost quotation, and service data for each subscribers; distributing data of the contract to other systems including a billing system, a rating system, and a technical provisioning system, the technical provisioning system providing connectivity data for wireless network usage by mobile devices of each subscriber, the rating system providing financial authorization and cost attribution information for service usage by mobile devices of each subscriber, and the billing system receiving usage data with regard to mobile devices of each subscriber, informing the rating system when subscriber mobile device usage is authorized and unauthorized in view of contract details, and providing billing information with regard to the contract; and wherein distributing data of the contract to: the billing system includes distributing data representative of the contract to be stored and processed by the billing system as a single contract; and the rating system and technical provisioning system includes distributing data of the primary subscriber and each of the secondary subscribers to create individual instances of the contract for each of the subscribers.