Method for billing pre-paid multi-services
Abstract
Method for computing a quota of service time or service volume requested by a user (10) in a system wherein a service provider (12) is adapted to provide a plurality of services to the user having pre-paid an amount of money on a user account in order to access at least one service. This method comprises the steps of determining whether the product of the amount of money (AMOUNT) by a reserved part (PART) is greater than a predetermined minimum reserve of money (MIN-RESERVE), and computing the quota which is equal to the minimum (MIN1) of the product and a maximum quantity of service (MAX-FLAT) that the user may reserve while being in a flat rate interval divided by the cost of one unit of the requested service (RATE) if the product is greater than said predetermined minimum reserve of money or to the minimum (MIN2) of the amount of money, the maximum quantity of service and the minimum reserve of money, divided by the cost of one unit of the requested service (RATE) if the product is less than the minimum reserve of money.

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| Document | Relation | Office | Category | Cited during | Relevant claims |
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| WO0013402A1 | Cites | World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) | Y | Search report | 1-9 |
| WO0186933A2 | Cites | World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) | A | Search report | 1-9 |
| WO03025870A2 | Cites | World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) | Y | Search report | 1-9 |
| WO9856160A1 | Cites | World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) | A | Search report | 1-9 |
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Priority claims6
| Document | Office | Kind | Date |
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| 04368033 | European Patent Office (EPO) | A | |
| 04368033 | European Patent Office (EPO) | – | |
| 05102025 | European Patent Office (EPO) | A | |
| 04368033 | – | – | – |
| EP20040368033 | – | – | – |
| EP20050102025 | – | – | – |
Members3
| Document | Office | Kind | |
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| EP1589741A2 | European Patent Office (EPO) | A2 | |
| US2005238153A1 | United States of America | A1 | |
| EP1589741A3This record | European Patent Office (EPO) | A3 |
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Numbers
- Publication
- 1589741
- Publication, DOCDB
- 1589741
- Publication, EPODOC
- EP1589741
- Application
- 5102025
- Application, DOCDB
- 05102025
- Application, EPODOC
- EP20050102025
Titles3
- German
- Verfahren zur vorausbezahlten Abrechnung von mehreren Diensten
- English
- Method for billing pre-paid multi-services
- French
- Procédé de taxation prépayée des multi-services
Classification
- CPC, 28
- H04M17/00
- H04M15/7655
- H04M15/77
- H04M15/772
- H04M15/775
- H04M15/785
- H04M15/80
- H04M15/8207
- H04M15/8228
- H04M15/85
- H04M15/851
- H04M15/853
- H04M15/854
- H04M15/88
- H04M2215/0116
- H04M2215/0152
- H04M2215/22
- H04M2215/725
- H04M2215/7254
- H04M2215/7263
- H04M2215/7277
- H04M2215/7295
- H04M2215/7813
- H04M2215/7833
- H04M2215/815
- H04M2215/8162
- H04M2215/8166
- H04W4/24
- IPC, 3
- H04M17 00
- H04M15 00
- H04W4 24
Designated states36
- Contracting states, 30
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Switzerland
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Germany
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Spain
- Finland
- France
- United Kingdom
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Iceland
- Italy
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Monaco
- Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
- Poland
and 6 moreShow fewer
- Portugal
- Romania
- Sweden
- Slovenia
- Slovakia
- Türkiye
- Extension states, 6
- Albania
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Croatia
- Latvia
- North Macedonia
- Yugoslavia, later Serbia and Montenegro (until 2006)