Method and device for accessing a telecommunications network and for billing telecommunication services

US6993320B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Peter Brune · Bonn, DE
• Ulrike Feuser · Bonn, DE
• Michael Langer · Bad Doberan, DE
• Patrik Ljungström · Bonn, DE
• Uwe Michel · Bad Honnef, DE
• Walter Mohrs · Bonn, DE
• Wolfgang Ptacek · Bad Honnef, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 16, 2000
• Grant date: Jan 31, 2006
• Expiry date: Jun 3, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04M2215/32
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and a device for accessing a telecommunication network and for billing telecommunication services, whereby there are presented new processes, as compared to those of classical mechanisms of network providers, services are offered to their customers and fees are charged for providing the same. In this context the invention primarily concerns novel access mechanisms and access media to a telecommunications network, modified security mechanisms as well as innovative counting methods. The invention is characterized in that authentication methods are used in the telecommunication network, which permit a subscriber to certify at any one freely choosable point in time that a payment for a service which has been solicited or which is to be solicited, is provided or has already been provided.