Patents by Inventor Heiko Gerber

Heiko Gerber 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).

  • Publication number: 20080219420
    Abstract: At least two billing accounts that can be accessed by a selection message of a communications terminal are used to bill for a data transmission in a telecommunication network. After the data transmission directed to the communications terminal of a communications subscriber or originating from the communications terminal has begun, a selection message of the communications terminal is received by a network element of the telecommunication network. The selection message contains an identifier of the billing account to be used for billing the data transmission. The data transmission is then billed via this billing account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventor: Heiko Gerber
  • Patent number: 7054426
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system for simple implementation of requirements of telecommunications subscribers for services which can be provided by a communications network. According to the invention, the method includes abstracting and classifying the requirements into a corresponding number of classes, subdividing the individual classes into one or more subclasses, and uniquely associating a subclass with one or more technical functional units which can be coupled to one another in a corresponding manner. The system includes a first catalog of classes, in which each requirement can be associated with one class, and a second catalog of technical functional units, in which each class is associated with one or more specific technical functional units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heiko Gerber, Robert Hagen, Lorene Hoerner, Klaus Krause
  • Publication number: 20040039656
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a pricing system for ascertaining total price data in a mobile-radio-assisted ordering process. In this context, following transmission of order data, performed using a mobile radio network, from an ordering communication terminal to a provider communication terminal associated with a service provider, a pricing system is supplied with ordering data, associated with the order data, by the provider communication terminal. The pricing system uses network use data, which are transmitted by the mobile radio network and appear in connection with the ordering process, to select from a volume of price-influencing data stored in an influence memory the price-influencing data which are associated with the ordering process, and the ordering data and the read price-influencing data are used to ascertain the total price data concerning the ordering process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heiko Gerber, Robert Hagen, Lorene Hoerner, Martin Kissner, Klaus Krause
  • Publication number: 20020123322
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system for simple implementation of requirements of telecommunications subscribers for services which can be provided by a communications network. According to the invention, the method includes abstracting and classifying the requirements into a corresponding number of classes, subdividing the individual classes into one or more subclasses, and uniquely associating a subclass with one or more technical functional units which can be coupled to one another in a corresponding manner. The system includes a first catalog of classes, in which each requirement can be associated with one class, and a second catalog of technical functional units, in which each class is associated with one or more specific technical functional units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Publication date: September 5, 2002
    Inventors: Heiko Gerber, Robert Hagen, Lorene Hoerner, Klaus Krause