SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MULTIPARTY BILLING FOR WEB ACCESS

Patent №

US 6,035,281

Granted

2000-03-07

Filed 1997

Owner

IBM CORPORATION

+1 more

AI components

1

kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08877021

A 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.

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AI classification

Knowledge representation0.96
AI hardware0.04
Machine learning0.00
Natural language0.00
Planning0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

IBM CORPORATION

assignment · 86090232

EBAY INC.

assignment · 295360469

Assignors

CROSSKEY, JAMES P., MEI, MARK G., RAGAVAN, HARISH, WU, KUN-LUNG, YU, PHILIP S.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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