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H04M 2215/00 Metering arrangements; Time controlling arrangements; Time indicating arrangements
Filing statistics
CPC H04M 2215/00 belongs to the parent subclass H04M, which recorded 236,508 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings declined from 19,559 in 2013 to 13,232 in 2023 (-32%), peaking at 28,340 applications in 2017. The most active applicants in class H04 are HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY (101,476 applications), QUALCOMM (101,139 applications) and SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY (96,655 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
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Child Classifications
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- H04M 2215/01 Details of billing arrangements
- H04M 2215/14 Billing aspects relating to the actual charge
- H04M 2215/20 Technology dependant metering
- H04M 2215/22 Bandwidth or usage-sensitve billing
- H04M 2215/24 Voice over IP billing
- H04M 2215/26 Data billing charged as a voice call, i.e. based on time or unit charging
- H04M 2215/28 SMS billing
- H04M 2215/32 Involving wireless systems
- H04M 2215/34 Roaming
- H04M 2215/42 Least cost routing, i.e. provision for selecting the lowest cost tariff
- H04M 2215/44 Charging/billing arrangements for connection made over different networks, e.g. wireless and PSTN, ISDN, etc.
- H04M 2215/46 Connection to several service providers
- H04M 2215/48 Sending information over a non-traffic network channel or another connection than the one actually used, e.g. signalling, D-channel, data and voice
- H04M 2215/52 Interconnection, inter-exchange, reseller billing, billing agreements between different operators, e.g. billing identifier added on the CDR in order to cross charge the other operator, inter-operator accounting, reconciliation, bill directly resellers customers
- H04M 2215/54 Resellers-retail or service providers billing, e.g. agreements with telephone service operator, activation, charging/recharging of accounts
- H04M 2215/56 On line or real-time flexible agreements between service providers and telecoms operators
- H04M 2215/62 Called party billing, e.g. reverse billing, freephone, collect call, 0800 or 0900
- H04M 2215/64 Split billing, sharing the cost of calls, e.g. between calling and called parties
- H04M 2215/66 Third party billing, i.e. third party can also be the predetermined telephone line of the caller if he is calling from another telephone set
- H04M 2215/68 Billing calls completely to the calling party, except POTS, e.g. charge on caller's choice service
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class H04, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 101,476
- QUALCOMM US 101,139
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 96,655
- TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) SE 57,744
- LG ELECTRONICS KR 55,253
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 54,181
- SONY CORPORATION JP 35,309
- ZTE CORPORATION CN 32,950
- INTEL CORPORATION US 27,533
- GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION CN 27,498