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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2002
Yoichiro Igarashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Chizu Hamasaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Masaaki Takase, Kawasaki, JP;
Mitsuaki Kakemizu, Kawasaki, JP;
Masaaki Wakamoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Yoichiro Igarashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Chizu Hamasaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Masaaki Takase, Kawasaki, JP;
Mitsuaki Kakemizu, Kawasaki, JP;
Masaaki Wakamoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A billing system is disclosed which performs processing in order to provide service to user terminals, and which performs billing for the service provided to the user terminals. In this billing system, user billing profiles UBP are stored in a user billing profile registration unit, by service type and in user terminal units; a billing condition generation unit within a service provider server compares the user billing profile UBP corresponding to a specified service type and to a user terminal with a server billing profile SBP to generate billing conditions, and a billing condition setting unit of a foreign agent sets the billing conditions in a billing unit; and based on the billing conditions thus set, the billing unit executes billing processing for each user terminal.