Method and system for location-dependent billing for services
AssigneeSwisscom Mobile AG
InventorPAUL AEBI
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Abstract
A method for location-dependent billing for a service available to a user with a mobile terminal having an identification module. Via a wireless interface of the identification module, a local communication connection is set up to at least one external location tag with a corresponding wireless interface. The method includes determining a location identification through evaluation of data of the at least one external location tag; and selecting a billing rate for billing for the service available to the user based on the determined location of the at least on external location tag.
Claims20
A method for location-dependent billing for a service being available to a user with a mobile terminal having an identification module, wherein, via a wireless interface of the identification module, a local communication connection is set up to at least one external location tag with a corresponding wireless interface, the method comprising:
- determining a location identification through evaluation of data of the at least one external location tag;
- and
- selecting a billing rate for billing for the service available to the user based on the determined location of the at least one external location tag.
A system for location-dependent billing of a service being available to a mobile terminal including an identification module, the system comprising:
- the identification module comprises a wireless interface for configured to set up a local communication connection to at least one external location tag including a corresponding wireless interface;
- the at least one external location tag including data stored for determining a location identification of the external location tag;
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- a billing unit configured to bill for the service available to the user in accordance with a billing rate assigned to the location identification.
A system for billing a service provided to a user based on a location of the user, comprising:
- at least one external location tag configured to exchange data with a mobile terminal of the user, and to store data indicative of the location of the at least one external location tag;
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- a billing unit of a communication network used by the mobile terminal and configured to assign a billing rate to the service used by the user based on the location of the at least one external location tag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.