Patents by Inventor Antti Romppanen

Antti Romppanen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7684551
    Abstract: A method of online charging in a communication network. The method includes receiving a service request from a user, determining whether the service request is an access network session, a media network session or a service network session, determining if a type of charging model the user wants to use to provide the service request is an event based model, a volume based model, a time based model, an event based model or a combination of the models, determining which network element corresponding to the access network session, the media network session and the service network session in the communication network is responsible for providing the service request from the user, and provisioning identification rules for providing the service request to the network element that is determined to be responsible for providing the service request from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Comptel Corporation
    Inventors: Matti Salonen, Antti Romppanen
  • Publication number: 20080235161
    Abstract: A method of online charging in a communication network. The method includes receiving a service request from a user, determining whether the service request is an access network session, a media network session or a service network session, determining if a type of charging model the user wants to use to provide the service request is an event based model, a volume based model, a time based model, an event based model or a combination of the models, determining which network element corresponding to the access network session, the media network session and the service network session in the communication network is responsible for providing the service request from the user, and provisioning identification rules for providing the service request to the network element that is determined to be responsible for providing the service request from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventors: Matti Salonen, Antti Romppanen
  • Patent number: 7391854
    Abstract: The invention is intended to create a online charging method for an end user session comprising at least one first charging session and at least one second charging session. The invention is based on using a combination pricing plan as response to a number of different charging requests, and determining the charging by said combination pricing plan, by using during the end user session different proxy components to identify service requests according to different service identification request rules, each proxy component using individual service identification rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Comptel Corporation
    Inventors: Matti Salonen, Antti Romppanen
  • Publication number: 20070041532
    Abstract: The invention is intended to create a online charging method for an end user session comprising at least one first charging session and at least one second charging session. The invention is based on using a combination pricing plan as response to a number of different charging requests, and determining the charging by said combination pricing plan, by using during the end user session different proxy components to identify service requests according to different service identification request rules, each proxy component using individual service identification rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicant: COMPTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matti Salonen, Antti Romppanen