Billing method and device in a cellular packet radiocommunication network
AssigneeGemalto SA
InventorsChristian Guion, Ghazi Ben Amor, Alain Rhelimi, Omar Habbal
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Abstract
This invention proposes a method to obtain the cost of transmitting a set of data from a transmitting means (2, 3, 16) to a receiving means (2, 3, 16) via a network (4), which consists of creating and sending with the set of data itself a data item, called a ticket (19, 23), used to determine the volume and/or the value of said set of data transmitted. Using said ticket, the receiving means can take into account the cost of executing said set of data thereby simplifying the billing. This invention also concerns the systems used to implement said method especially in cellular packet radiocommunication networks.
Claims12
A method to obtain the cost of transmitting a set of data from a service provider server computer to a end-user terminal, having a user associated therewith, via a cellular packet radio-communication network, the method comprising:
- the server computer:
- creating and sending, with the set of data, a data item, called a ticket, used to determine volume or value of said set of data transmitted;
- translating the set of data into a set of plurality of packets of a cellular packet radio communication network;
- and
- injecting into the set of a plurality of packets of a cellular packet an additional packet which is the ticket;
- and
- the end-user terminal:
- receiving the set of data including the ticket;
- determining the volume or the value of said set of a plurality of packets transmitted from the received ticket, said volume or said value being indicated by the received ticket;
- and
- processing the determined volume or value of the set of a plurality of packets according to a prescribed billing model and to determine whether financial rights associated with the user of the end-user terminal authorize access to the received data.
The method according to any one of the previous claims, wherein:
- the end-user terminal is a mobile telephony station, the mobile telephony station extracts the ticket and sends the ticket to a subscriber card or a module included in the mobile telephony station, and
- the subscriber card or said module determines the volume or the value of said set of data transmitted from the extracted ticket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.