Terminal and mobile communication system
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsTadato Tomikawa, Takayoshi Ode
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Abstract
A terminal configured to perform communication using a base station, includes a communication device that acquires billing information stored on an external storage device via a radio communication link with the external storage device, and a controller that performs a transmission operation to transmit the billing information acquired from the external storage device to a billing device, the billing device being connected to the base station via a network, storing original billing information for use in billing related to the communication that the terminal performs using the base station and temporarily switching from the original billing information to the received billing information when the billing information is received from the external storage device.
Claims23
A terminal configured to perform communications using a base station, comprising:
- a communication device configured to acquire temporary billing information stored on an external storage device via a radio communication link with the external storage device, the temporary billing information being configured to be used for billing relating to the communications by the terminal using the base station;
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- a controller configured to perform a transmission operation to transmit the temporary billing information acquired from the external storage device to a billing device over a network, the billing device being connected to the base station via the network and configured to store original billing information for use in billing relating to the communications that the terminal performs using the base station,
- wherein the billing device is configured to temporarily switch from the original billing information to the temporary billing information when the temporary billing information is received so as to bill the communications by the terminal via the base station using the temporary billing information.
A mobile communication system comprising:
- a base station configured to that receive from a terminal, temporary billing information that the terminal has acquired via a radio communication link with an external storage device, the temporary billing information being configured to be used for billing relating to communications by the terminal using the base station;
- a device coupled to the base station and configured to perform an operation for the terminal to establish the communications communication using the base station;
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- a billing device, including:
- a storage device configured to store original billing information for use in billing relating to the communications of the terminal using the base station,
- a communication device configured to receive the temporary billing information from the device via a network, and
- a controller configured to switch temporarily from the original billing information to the temporary billing information received by the communication device so as to bill the communications by the terminal via the base station using the temporary billing information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.