System and method of multiparty billing for Web access
US6035281A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 16, 1997 |
| Grant date | Mar 7, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 16, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04M2215/64
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for billing one or more participating parties for client access to the internet is disclosed including the steps of identifying at least one of the one or more participating parties as being responsible for the billing, allocating a share of the billing to each responsible participating party based on a predetermined function and computing a billing amount for each of the responsible participating parties based on a function of the share and a client bandwidth usage.
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