Method for coupling online and internet services
First Claim
1. Method for coupling online and Internet services, characterized in that general and personalized services as well as personal customer data of online services, telecommunication networks and Internet service providers (9) are accessible by means of secured access capabilities via an Internet interface of the Internet service provider (9), such that these services, for the purpose of utilization and/or setting up and/or changing, comprise a worldwide access capability independent of the particular telecommunication network and of the particular terminal (1) employed.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for coupling online and Internet services. Currently, personalised services in particular (e-mail etc.) are only available from Internet service providers and online providers via the telecommunications network and RAS/RADIUS access and not via the public Internet. To solve said problem, the ISP is equipped with an open Internet application platform (OIA) (e.g. freemail platform) and the platforms are coupled in such a way that the ISP customer can take advantage of an extended range of services in comparison to usual Internet customers, even during access via the Internet. Said method permits in particular e-mails to be re-directed from the ISP server with a known address to the OIA platform, in such a way that the customer can use these services world-wide via the public Internet using any terminal via any network. One example could be the use of a T-Online e-mail account from the fixed network and mobile telecommunications network, from home, at work and on holiday and business trips via foreign telephone networks and local and foreign company networks/LAN access.
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12 Claims
- 1. Method for coupling online and Internet services, characterized in that general and personalized services as well as personal customer data of online services, telecommunication networks and Internet service providers (9) are accessible by means of secured access capabilities via an Internet interface of the Internet service provider (9), such that these services, for the purpose of utilization and/or setting up and/or changing, comprise a worldwide access capability independent of the particular telecommunication network and of the particular terminal (1) employed.
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6. Method as claimed in one or several of the preceding claims,
characterized in that the additional service platform (26), optionally partially or completely, is realized as a software platform on the same hardware of the ISP (9), with the independence being realized through different port addresses, different software processes, different databases, or at least a different access procedure onto the same data stock.
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7. Method as claimed in one or several of the preceding claims,
characterized in that the OIA platform (26) is made available to any Internet customers who are not contract customers of the ISP services, and the contract customers have at their disposal special advantages in particular through the coupling of the ISP platform (9) and the OIA platform (26), thereby that they can access ISP services via the OIA Internet access or ISP services in the OIA platforms are made available as data copy and/or as data transfer.
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8. Method as claimed in one or several of the preceding claims,
characterized in that the ISP mail account (15) can be redirected from the ISP (9) into the OIA platform (26) in order for the customer to obtain access which is independent of a local, terminal and telecommunication access network.
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