Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Accounting
Patent
1996-10-21
1998-04-28
Harrity, John E.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Accounting
G06F 1900
Patent
active
057458847
ABSTRACT:
A system and method in which remote users may be billed, on a per connection basis, for universal data grade access to their home office servers. Portable device 101 is carried by a transient remote user within wireless range of an Access Point (AP) 110 deployed at, for example, a hotel or airport lounge. Signalling resource 105 inside portable device 101 automatically initiates wireless contact with AP 110. Wireless contact with AP 110 includes a data grade network address of a destination server 130 to which portable device 101 desires to be connected. AP 110 contacts destination server 130, over Internet/data grade WAN 120. Destination server 130 in turn establishes a secure tunnelled Internet Protocol (IP) 124 with portable device 101 through AP 110. Information such as data-rich files or e-mail is then automatically exchanged between destination server 130 and portable device 101. When the remote user logs on later to portable device 101, applications programs may be refreshed with new information such as files or e-mail, received from destination server 130 since the previous logon. Likewise, files or e-mail previously identified by the user to be sent out will have already gone. Billing for this service is easily facilitated on a per user, per connection basis, since establishment of tunnelled IP 124 creates a recordable billable event for which either the remote user or the destination server 130 may be invoiced.
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Carnegie John
Reid William J.
Harrity John E.
Mobile Area Networks, Inc.
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