Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Finance
Patent
1995-07-07
1998-08-11
Cosimano, Edward R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Finance
G06F 1300
Patent
active
057942218
ABSTRACT:
An Internet billing method comprises establishing an agreement between an Internet access provider and a customer, and an agreement between the Internet access provider and a vendor, wherein the Internet access provider agrees with the customer and the vendor to bill the customer and remit to the vendor for products and services purchased over the Internet by the customer from the vendor. The provider creates access to the Internet for the customer. When the customer orders a product or service over the Internet from a vendor, transactional information transmitted between the customer and the vendor is also transmitted to the provider. The provider then bills the transaction amount to the customer and remits a portion of the transaction amount to the vendor, keeping the differential as a fee for providing the service. As a result of this method, there is no need for any customer account numbers or vendor account numbers to be transmitted over the Internet, thereby maintaining the security of that information.
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Cosimano Edward R.
Groutt Phillip
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