System and method of multiparty billing for Web access
June 16, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesMethod for automatically establishing a conference call System and method for controlling access to data located on a content server Usage-based billing system for full mesh multimedia satellite network World-wide-web server with delayed resource-binding for resource-based load balancing on a distributed resource multi-node network Method for providing sponsor paid internet access and simultaneous sponsor promotion Computer system and computer-implemented process for creation and maintenance of online services System for intergrating an on-line service community with a foreign service Method for providing customer on-line support via prepaid internet access Online service development tool with fee setting capabilities Apparatus for capturing, storing and processing co-marketing information associated with a user of an on-line computer service using the world-wide-web. InventorsApplicationNo. 877021 filed on 06/16/1997US Classes:705/14, Distribution or redemption of coupon, or incentive or promotion program705/40Bill distribution or paymentExaminersPrimary: Voeltz, Emanuel T.Assistant: Kalinowski, Alexander Attorney, Agent or FirmForeign Patent References
International ClassG06F 017/60AbstractA system and method for billing one or more participating parties for client access to the internet is disclosed including the steps of identifying at least one of the one or more participating parties as being responsible for the billing, allocating a share of the billing to each responsible participating party based on a predetermined function and computing a billing amount for each of the responsible participating parties based on a function of the share and a client bandwidth usage.Other References
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