[summary of the invention]
The deficiency such as cost increase and difficult charge existing in order to overcome prior art, the invention provides a kind of charging method for network TV service, to cut operating costs and to facilitate user to pay dues.
The invention provides a kind of charging method for network TV service, the method comprises the following steps: a. opening network television set, and Web TV is loaded with traffic module, charging policy module, accounting module and payment module simultaneously; B. business module is selected network TV business type for user; C. charging policy module judges whether selected network TV business type needs charge, if judged result is not for needing charge, direct application network television services type, if judged result is needs charges, produce charging policy and select for user, and enter next step;
D. accounting module is added up expense according to the charging policy of network TV business type and user's selection, and generates the list of charges;
E. payment module allows user to select payment mode according to the list of charges, and pays the corresponding amount of money, if user pays successfully, and application network television services type.
According to one preferred embodiment of the present invention, in step e, unsuccessful if user pays, return to step c or step e.
According to one preferred embodiment of the present invention, network TV business type comprises: video display business, audio service, photograph album business or information business.
According to one preferred embodiment of the present invention, payment mode comprises: mobile-phone payment pattern, Payment Card payment mode or expansion payment mode.
According to one preferred embodiment of the present invention, expansion payment mode expands to Web bank's payment mode or bill of exchange payment mode.
According to one preferred embodiment of the present invention, in step c, in the time of the corresponding a kind of charging policy of network TV business type, charging policy module is selected charging policy directly, in the time of the corresponding multiple charging policy of network TV business type, by the one in the selected multiple charging policy of user.
According to one preferred embodiment of the present invention, in step c, user on the estimation business use amount selects charging policy.
According to one preferred embodiment of the present invention, estimate that business use amount comprises moon number, video-on-demand times, uninterrupted, amount of capacity, the business number of monthly payment charging.
Pass through above-mentioned steps, the invention provides a kind of charging method for network TV service, its different business demand to user adopts different management and charge method, thereby Web TV developer and ICP are solved because of intellectual property and cost is former thereby the problem that can not be better provide more excellent interesting experience to enjoy for user, for Web TV developer and ICP have reduced production risk, for network television user has won more excellent individual enjoyment.
[embodiment]
Relevant feature of the present invention and technology contents, please refer to following detailed description and accompanying drawing, and accompanying drawing only provides reference and explanation, is not used for the present invention to be limited.
Illustrated in fig. 1 is the flow chart of Web TV charging method of the present invention.As shown in Figure 1, this Web TV charging method starts from step 101.
In step 102, user's opening network television set, Web TV is in startup while loaded with traffic module, charging policy module, accounting module and payment module afterwards.
In step 103, Web TV calls business module, and business module shows multiple alternative network TV business types, and selects required network TV business type for user.
In step 104, when user chooses after required network TV business type, Web TV calls charging policy module.
In step 105, charging policy module judges network TV business type user-selected in step 103, to determine whether this business needs charge.
If it is coin free service or the business having customized (not needing charge) that charging policy module determines this business, skip to step 113, Web TV is directly applied this business.
If charging policy module determines this service needed charge, perform step 106, produce the corresponding charging policy of this business and select for user.Now, user on the estimation business use amount select to be applicable to oneself charging policy.
In step 107, Web TV calls accounting module, and generates the list of charges by accounting module according to selected network TV business and charging policy.
In step 108, Web TV loads payment module, and payment module please user select payment mode to pay according to the list of charges, wherein has phone-payment, Payment Card payment and expansion and pays three kinds of patterns.
User can adopt the one in above three kinds of payment modes to carry out payment, if step 109 is for adopting phone-payment mode to pay, step 110 is for adopting the Payment Card means of payment to pay, step 111 is for adopting the expansion means of payment to pay, wherein expanding the means of payment is the reserved means of payment, it can comprise other the means of payment such as Web bank's payment, bill of exchange, manufacturer can set according to specific needs in payment module, to determine using which kind of means of payment to be used as expanding the means of payment.
In step 112, payment module judges that user pays whether success, if pay unsuccessfully, continues execution step 108, asks user to reselect payment mode and pays.Now, if pay unsuccessfully, the method also can be returned to step 103 or 106, reselects business or charging policy for user.
If pay successfully, carry out step 113, Web TV is applied this business.
It should be noted, business module, charging policy module, accounting module and the payment module in the present invention can software and/or hardware mode realize, it is embedded in Web TV or its Set Top Box, can be called by Web TV.
Illustrated in fig. 2 is optional class of business and corresponding charging policy thereof in business module of the present invention.In Fig. 2, business module 201 has four kinds of types of service such as video display business 202, audio service 203, photograph album business 204, information business 205.
Wherein, video display business 202 comprises online play service 2021 and network downloading service 2022, audio service 203 comprises online play service 2031 and network downloading service 2032, photograph album business 204 comprises photograph album dilatation business 2041, electron album downloading service 2042, electron album custom service 2043, and information business 205 comprises traffic service 2051, stock business 2052, weather forecast business 2053, Domestic News business 2054.In herein, for convenience of description, only list various conventional network TV business type and charging policy thereof, it should be noted, network TV business type and charging policy thereof are not limited in above explanation, and it should have numerous embodiments.
First charging policy module judges whether user-selected type of service needs charge, if the type of service of choosing current is the Domestic News business 2054 in information business 205, as shown in Figure 2, because this business is free type of service, therefore Web TV chance is directly applied this business.
If user has selected other types of service that need to charge, charging policy module can produce charging policy according to user-selected type of service, for instance, if user has selected the traffic service 2051 in information business 205, wherein, because this traffic service 2051 only has a kind of charging policy (monthly payment charging), charging policy module can direct its charging policy of selection be monthly payment charging.
May there is the situation of multiple charging policy for partial service type, which kind of charging policy charging user can select to adopt as required, for instance, in the time that user has selected the online play service 2021 of video display business 202, charge by flow because this online play service 2021 has, by video-on-demand times charging and three kinds of charging policy of monthly payment charging, therefore charging policy module can point out user select the one in above three kinds of charging policy and allow user make one's options, and user-selected charging policy is just as current charging policy.
In addition, charging policy module also can allow user select the moon number, video-on-demand times, uninterrupted, amount of capacity, the business number etc. of monthly payment charging to estimate to use traffic carrying capacity as required, user uses traffic carrying capacity to select charging policy on the estimation, thereby the module that makes to charge can generate the list of charges according to corresponding charging policy.
The invention provides a kind of charging method for network TV service, thereby Web TV developer and ICP are solved because of intellectual property and cost is former thereby the problem that can not be better provide more excellent interesting experience to enjoy for user, for Web TV developer and ICP have reduced production risk, for network television user has won more excellent individual enjoyment.
Above with reference to the accompanying drawings of various preferred embodiments of the present invention, but only otherwise deviate from the spirit and scope of the invention, those skilled in the art can carry out the modifications and changes on various forms to it, all belongs to protection scope of the present invention.