System and method for operating a billing system, and billing system
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsReinhard Eder, Ronald Heine, Friedrich Koch
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for operating a billing system for billing for services provided by a service provider and/or for transmissions of service data via a terminal used by a subscriber using a communication network, where the service provider is arranged outside the communication network, and the billing system accesses subscriber profile data stored in a home location register in the communication network. Access to the subscriber profile data is followed by use thereof to ascertain the TCP/IP address of an account server which manages an electronic credit belonging to the subscriber. The invention also shows a billing system for carrying out the method.
Claims8
A method for operating a billing system to bill services provided by a service provider and/or for transmissions of service data via a terminal used by a subscriber using a communication network, comprising:
- providing a service provider arranged outside the communication network;
- and
- accessing subscriber profile data stored in a home location register in the communication network, via the billing system, wherein access to the subscriber profile data in the home location register is followed by use of the subscriber profile data to ascertain the IP address of an account server which manages an electronic credit belonging to the subscriber.
A billing system, comprising:
- a communication network having at least one terminal and at least one account server which manages an electronic credit belonging to a subscriber;
- and
- a server belonging to a service provider which is connected to the communication network and has services used by the terminal, wherein
- the communication network has a home location register with subscriber profile data stored thereon which are accessed by the billing system, and
- the billing system includes a server function which, following access to the subscriber profile data in the home location register, uses the subscriber profile data to ascertain the TCP/IP address of the account server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.