Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and system for location-dependent billing for services
- Patent Title (中): 用于服务的位置相关计费的方法和系统
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Application No.: US13540901Application Date: 2012-07-03
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Publication No.: US08498613B2Publication Date: 2013-07-30
- Inventor: Paul Aebi
- Applicant: Paul Aebi
- Applicant Address: CH Bern
- Assignee: Swisscom AG
- Current Assignee: Swisscom AG
- Current Assignee Address: CH Bern
- Agency: McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.
- Priority: EP06101335 20060206
- Main IPC: H04M11/00
- IPC: H04M11/00

Abstract:
A method and system for location-dependent billing for services that are available to mobile terminals. A mobile terminal may access a fixably installed external location tag, and may obtain from the external location tag a billing rate code, which may then be forwarded from the mobile terminal to a central unit of a mobile communication network, in which the mobile terminal is logged. The central unit may determine a geographic location identification of the external location tag—e.g., by evaluation of the billing rate code—and may select a billing rate for billing for service(s) available to the user, based on the billing rate code at the external location tag. The mobile terminal may access the external location tag via a local communication connection, which may be set up between the mobile terminal and external location tag, such as using a corresponding wireless interface therebetween.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120289190A1 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATION-DEPENDENT BILLING FOR SERVICES Public/Granted day:2012-11-15
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