Parallel data network billing and collection system
USRE45241E1 · kind E1 · reissue
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 25, 2011 |
| Grant date | Nov 11, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 25, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC —)General
Abstract
A billing and collection system comprising an access management computer for enabling payment for a service provided over a data network to be made for a telephone connection to a shared revenue billing network where the telephone connection to the billing network regulates access to the service provided over the data network, the data network including at least one information provider presenting at least one service for on-line access by a user with a user computer through the data network, the billing network and access management computer adapted for controlling access to the information provider and billing the user for access to the information provider, the access management computer communicating with the data network to enable and terminate access to the information provider through the user computer with the billing network sharing revenues for the telephone connection with the information provider.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.