US 7,627,100 B2 · Method for providing virtual private network services

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method for providing a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service. The method comprises the steps of: after receiving a call request from a user terminal, a Service Control Point (SCP) judging whether the user terminal has applied for a prepaid service at the same time, if so, initiating a VPN service logic, invoking a prepaid service logic by the VPN service logic, and deducting fee from a prepaid account corresponding to the user terminal while providing the VPN service to the user terminal. With the present invention, a VPN service can be provided for a prepaid service user, which not only brings convenience for prepaid service users, but also prompts expansion of VPN service, thus bringing great interests for the operators.

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Dependent claims

A method for providing a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service, comprising the steps of:

A. receiving a call request for a VPN service from a user terminal, initiating a VPN service logic, and determining whether the user terminal has customized a prepaid service by a Service Control Point (SCP);
B. invoking a fee-applying interface preset in a prepaid service logic for applying fees, providing, by the VPN service logic, the VPN service to the user terminal, charging the VPN service, and invoking a fee-deducting interface preset in the prepaid service logic for deducting, according to a result of the charging, from a prepaid account.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/568,567Filed 13 Aug 2004

Priority

CN 03 1 5361315 Aug 2003

Published

US 2007/0206744 A16 Sep 2007

Granted

1 Dec 2009

Term ends

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Classification11 codes

H04L 12/1467
Methods or systems for payment or settlement of the charges for data transmission involving significant interaction with the data transmission…
H04L 12/14
Details: charging, metering or billing arrangements specially adapted for data communications, e.g. authentication, authorisation and accounting…
H04L 12/1453
Charging, metering or billing arrangements specially adapted for data communications, e.g. authentication, authorisation and accounting [AAA]…:…
H04L 12/4641
Interconnection of networks: virtual LANs, VLANs, e.g. virtual private networks [VPN]

Method for providing virtual private network services

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