Method and System for Location-Dependent Billing for Services
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Abstract
A method for location-dependent billing for a services that are available to a mobile terminal, a local communication connection is set up to a fixably installed external location tag with a corresponding wireless interface between the fixably installed tag and the mobile terminal, the method including the steps of accessing the external location tag and transmitting a billing rate code from the external location tag to the mobile terminal, forwarding the billing rate code from the mobile terminal to a central unit of a mobile communication network, in which the mobile terminal is logged, determining a geographic location identification of the external location tag by evaluation of the billing rate code at the central unit, and selecting a billing rate for billing for the service available to the user based on the billing rate code at the central unit.
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41 Claims
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21. A method, comprising:
in one or more control units of a mobile communication network; receiving service-related information associated with a mobile terminal, wherein at least part of the service-related information is obtained by the mobile terminal from an external location tag accessed by the mobile terminal via a local communication connection; determining based on the service-related information, location information relating to one or both of the mobile terminal and the external location tag; and determining based on the service-related information, billing information associated with a service available to a user of the mobile terminal, wherein the service comprises mobile wireless access to the mobile communication network. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A system, comprising:
a mobile terminal that is operable to; establish a local communication connection to an external location tag; transmit, to a control unit of a mobile communication network, service-related information, wherein at least part of the service-related information is obtained by the mobile terminal from the external location tag; and receive from the control unit billing information for a service available to a user of the mobile terminal, wherein; location information, relating to one or both of the mobile terminal and the external location tag, is determined by the control unit based on the service-related information, the billing information is determined by the control unit based on the service-related information, and the service comprises mobile wireless access to the mobile communication network. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A system, comprising:
one or more control units of a mobile communication network, the one or more control units being operable to; receive service-related information associated with a mobile terminal, wherein at least part of the service-related information is obtained by the mobile terminal from an external location tag accessed by the mobile terminal via a local communication connection; determine based on the service-related information, location information relating to one or both of the mobile terminal and the external location tag; and determine based on the service-related information, billing information associated with a service available to a user of the mobile terminal, wherein the service comprises mobile wireless access to the mobile communication network. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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