CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEM WITH REMOTE PROGRAMMING, VOICE RESPONSIVE REGISTRATION, AND REAL TIME BILLING

摘要

2083515 9118467 PCTABS00008 Method and apparatus for use in a mobile telephone rental system in which credit card information is communicated from mobile telephone units (100); communicating data between the mobile telephone unit (100) and a Voice Response System (302) for the purpose of customer registration and mobile telephone unit (100) remote programming of mobile telephone unit (100) features and NAM and mobile telephone unit (100) supervision; communicating data between the Voice Response System (302) and a Registration System (304) to obtain mobile telephone unit (100) information and customer credit card validation; communicating data between the Registration System (304) and a credit card clearinghouse (306) to obtain customer credit card approval or decline; communicating data between the Registration System (304) and a plurality of Collector Systems (307) for the purpose of call rating and billing; communicating data between the Registration System (304) and an Administration System (309) for the purpose of providing rated call information to the reseller of the rental mobile telephone business; and communicating data between the mobile telephone unit (100) and an Indirect System (303) for the purpose of establishing service in cellular areas without Collector System (307) service. Data read from the mobile telephone units (100) are placed in variable length, encrypted and error protected Packet Data Units (PDUs). Commands are transmitted between the components of the System using PDUs.