Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Electronic shopping
Reexamination Certificate
2005-11-03
2009-10-20
Rudy, Andrew Joseph (Department: 3687)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Electronic shopping
C705S040000, C705S072000, C709S218000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07606737
ABSTRACT:
A billing system that allows a consumer to order products from computers connected to the Internet, wherein the consumer is automatically billed for the ordered good or service by its telephone service provider. When a consumer orders a product over the Internet, a plug-in component of the consumer's computer establishes an Internet connection to a billing server. A billing server component transfers an encrypted version of the product to the plug-in component. The plug-in component then disconnects from the Internet and establishes a point-to-point (PPP) connection with the billing server. During the PPP connection, the billing server component transfers an access key assigned to the order to the plug-in component so that the plug-in component may decrypt the product. The consumer is charged a unit rate or “drop-charge” for the product by the telephone service provider when the PPP connection is established using a premium-rate telephone number assigned and administered by the telephone service provider.
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Begg Iain M.
Dominguez Roberto
Fleming George A.
Hagman Darren W.
Heinrichs Denis N.
Christensen O'Connor Johnson & Kindness PLLC
eCharge Corporation
Rudy Andrew Joseph
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