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Method and system for billing and content delivery

  • US 20060253350A1
  • Filed: 03/05/2004
  • Published: 11/09/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. Method for billing and content delivery for a content requested by a terminal (100) of a terminal user to a portal (200), the method comprising the steps of receiving a request for content by a processor (2001) in the portal (200), determining (1) by the processor (2001) in the portal (200) whether or not the content is already delivered to the terminal (100) but is deliverable again based (11) on the existence of a digital ticket stored in a memory (2002) in the portal (200), the digital ticket indicating a digital proof of payment of the content;

  • if the content is not already delivered or not is deliverable again, fetching a credit-information data of the terminal user from a credit-information storage (400) arranged to communicate with the portal (200), the credit-information storage (400) located separately from a billing system (300), the billing system (300) being arranged to communicate with the portal (200), and verifying (2) the credit-information data by the processor (2001) in the portal (200);

    validating (3) the request for content by the processor (2001) in the portal (200);

    delivering (4) the content from the portal (200) to the terminal (100) via a network;

    billing (5) the content;

    if the content is already delivered but is deliverable again, delivering (4) the content from the portal (200) to the terminal (100) via the network.

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