Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Internet billing method
- Patent Title (中): 互联网计费方式
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Application No.: US12786431Application Date: 2010-05-25
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Publication No.: US07941375B2Publication Date: 2011-05-10
- Inventor: Andrew Egendorf
- Applicant: Andrew Egendorf
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Guntin Meles & Gust, PLC
- Agent Ed Guntin
- Main IPC: G06Q40/00
- IPC: G06Q40/00

Abstract:
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, establishing a billing arrangement with a purchasing customer to permit a third party to charge a billing account associated with the purchasing customer for a purchase transaction between the purchasing customer and a selling vendor, establishing a remitting arrangement with the selling vendor to permit the third party to remit to an account associated with the selling vendor a portion of the purchase transaction, establishing communications between equipment of the third party and equipment of the purchasing customer, wherein the equipment of the third party enables the equipment of the purchasing customer to communicate over the Internet with equipment of the selling vendor concerning the purchase transaction, obtaining transactional information relating to the purchase transaction, receiving authorization over the Internet to charge the purchasing customer the first amount, charging the first amount to the billing account associated with the purchasing customer in accordance with the billing arrangement, and remitting the second amount to the account associated with the selling vendor in accordance with the remitting arrangement. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100228645A1 INTERNET BILLING METHOD Public/Granted day:2010-09-09
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