System and method for notification of transmission and service costs of using telecommunication network
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Abstract
The aim of the invention is to permanently and preventively display the complete transmission and service costs of internet, online and telecommunication services that are offered by corresponding service providers (telecommunications internet and/or data service provider T/DSP) during use of said services. To this end, the costs are recorded and calculated by the T/DSP and are then transmitted to the user. The T/DSP is linked with the data banks of the companies by means of automatic data exchange so as to detect all relevant costs, such as the telecommunication transmission costs, own link-oriented or volume-oriented costs as well as the costs for using services and optionally costs for service offers of third parties that market their services to the user via the T/DSP. These relevant costs for the respective connection are recorded and stored in said data banks. The T/DSP relevant costs are automatically transmitted from the above-mentioned data banks during a projected connection (session). They are transmitted upon an automatic inquiry by the T/DSP or on the basis of the limited access authorization of the T/DSP to the corresponding data.
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16. A method for notifying a user of transmission and service costs of using telecommunication systems for communication connections, packet-oriented data transmission, and for Internet and online data,
wherein a service provider determines fee information based on total costs incurred during a connection, by accessing fee databases of the service provider and other service agencies involved, the other service agencies comprising service and content suppliers and telecommunication and transmission systems, and transmits the fee information, on request or automatically, to a terminal of the user; - and
wherein access by the service provider to the fee databases of the service agencies involved is carried out either automatically, by direct transmission of the portion of the costs incurred by the service agencies involved, or as a response to a specific inquiry by the user at the start of the connection. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A method of notifying a user of transmission and service costs of using telecommunication systems for communications connections, packet-oriented data transmission, and for Internet and online data, wherein
a service provider determines fee information based on total costs incurred during a connection by accessing fee databases of the service provider and other service agencies involved, the other service agencies comprising service and content suppliers and telecommunication and transmission systems, and transmits the fee information, on request or automatically, to a terminal of the user, and wherein the service provider transmits a forecast of cost for upcoming cost-intensive service or transmission offerings in response to a cost inquiry on the part of the user, the service provider determining the estimated service and/or transmission costs involved in cooperation with connected service agencies.
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29. A method of notifying a user of transmission and service costs of using telecommunication systems for communication connections, packet-oriented data transmission;
- and for Internet and online data, wherein
a service provider determines fee information on total costs incurred during a connection by accessing fee databases of the service provider and other service agencies involved, the service agencies comprising service and contract suppliers and telecommunication and transmission systems, and transmits the fee information, on request or automatically, to a terminal of the user, and the user can initiate an immediate transmission of data offered by a remote Internet service provider to the service provider, the transmission of the data between the service provider and the terminal occurring at a later time.
- and for Internet and online data, wherein
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