KR102012136B1 - System and method for charging according to providing contents - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and method for processing billing in accordance with content provision. The method for performing the billing processing according to the provision of the content to the customer subscribed to the data plan according to the present invention, the integration of the individual content fee for the use of the specific content from the customer and the individual data fee associated with the data traffic of the specific content Receiving a payment request; Performing integrated payment processing for the individual content fee and the individual data fee for the specific content according to the integrated payment request; If the specific content is provided to the customer after performing the integrated payment process, distinguishing the data traffic according to the transmission of the specific content from the allowed data traffic based on the subscribed data plan; It is characterized by.

Description

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING CHARGING IN CONTENT PROVIDING {SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHARGING ACCORDING TO PROVIDING CONTENTS}

The present invention relates to a system and method for processing billing according to content provision, and more particularly, to a system and a method for controlling the billing processing for a specific individual content separately from billing processing according to a subscription plan. It is about.

Recently, various types of data communication as well as communication with the other party are possible using a personal portable communication terminal such as a mobile phone or a smartphone.

For example, users may browse the web using a smartphone or access a video portal site to watch a movie.

To this end, carrier customers select a data plan at the time of subscription, and billing for data communication is performed according to the data plan selected / subscribed by each customer.

Examples of data plans include pay-as-you-go and flat rates. Pay-as-you-go rates are based on the data traffic generated during data communications, and the flat rate determines the total amount of data available based on a customer-specified fee. In this way, data traffic processing can be performed within a predetermined amount of data.

Furthermore, the so-called unlimited rate plan provides an unlimited amount of data communication services, but after exhausting a predetermined amount of data, a speed limit is made during data communication.

However, in the related art, all data contents are collectively applied according to a data plan once subscribed by a customer, thereby failing to meet the needs of various customers.

For example, a customer who subscribes to a relatively low-cost data plan will not be able to use it because they want to use a large amount of video content, and will be reluctant to subscribe to an expensive data plan for video content that they will watch occasionally. There is no choice but to.

Patent Publication No. 10-2014-0117616

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in order to satisfy the above-mentioned conventional request, and an object thereof is to provide a customer with a data plan with various options regarding the use of the specific content, for example, to use specific content regardless of the subscription plan. It is to provide a system and a method for enabling.

In order to achieve the above object, a billing processing system that performs billing processing according to the provision of content to a customer who has subscribed to a data plan according to the present invention includes an individual content fee for use of specific content from the customer and data of the specific content. A request receiving unit for receiving a consolidated payment request for individual data rates related to the traffic; A payment processing unit which performs integrated payment processing for the individual content fee and the individual data fee for the specific content according to the integrated payment request received in the request receiving unit; When the specific content subjected to the integrated payment processing is provided to the customer, and comprises a billing processing unit for processing the data traffic according to the transmission of the specific content to distinguish from the data traffic allowed based on the subscribed data plan .

In order to achieve the above object, a content providing system for providing content according to a request of a customer who has subscribed to a data plan according to the present invention includes an individual content fee for use of specific content from a communication terminal operated by a customer, and the specific content. Upon receiving a consolidated billing request for an individual data rate associated with data traffic of a, the integrated billing process for the individual content fee and the individual data fee for the specific content is performed according to the received consolidated billing request, and the communication terminal is sent to the communication terminal. A payment processing device transmitting a response signal including a content providing device address and an unpaid flag information; When the content request signal that does not include the unpaid flag information is received from the communication terminal receiving the response signal of the payment processing device, the requested content is transmitted to the communication terminal, and the unpaid flag information is included from the communication terminal. A content providing device that transmits a redirection signal including prepaid uncharged port information to the communication terminal when the received content request signal is received, and controls the communication terminal to retransmit the content request signal using the unpaid port information; And a billing processing device that distinguishes and processes billing processing according to port information of a content request signal transmitted from the communication terminal to the content providing device.

In addition, in order to achieve the above object, the method of performing the billing processing according to the provision of the content to the customer subscribed to the data plan according to the present invention, the individual content fee for the use of the specific content from the customer and the data of the specific content Receiving a consolidated payment request for an individual data fee associated with the traffic; Performing integrated payment processing for the individual content fee and the individual data fee for the specific content according to the integrated payment request; If the specific content is provided to the customer after performing the integrated payment process, distinguishing and processing data traffic according to the transmission of the specific content from the allowed data traffic based on the subscribed data plan; Is done.

As described above, according to the present invention, customers who have subscribed to the data plan can freely use the specific content without being aware of the charges according to the subscribed data plan.

In addition, the subject providing the chargeless port number becomes the content providing device, thereby preventing the communication terminal from accessing the wrong port number.

1 is a schematic structural diagram of an entire communication system including a charging processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention,
2 is a functional block diagram of the charging processing system of FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a process in which the billing processing system of FIG. 1 performs integrated payment processing for specific content according to a request of a communication terminal.
4 to 6 is a control process of the charging processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention,
7 is a diagram illustrating a content providing system according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Hereinafter, each embodiment according to the present invention is only one example to help understanding of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to these embodiments. In particular, the present invention may be composed of a combination of at least one or more of individual configurations, individual functions, or individual steps included in each embodiment.

In particular, although some claims in the claims include, for convenience, alphabets such as '(a)', these alphabets do not prescribe the order of each step.

In addition, each signal referred to in each embodiment according to the present invention may refer to one signal transmitted by one connection or the like, but may also mean a series of signal groups transmitted for the purpose of performing a specific function described below. . That is, in each embodiment, a plurality of signals transmitted at predetermined time intervals or transmitted after receiving a response signal from the counterpart device may be represented by one signal name for convenience.

A schematic configuration of the entire communication system including the charging processing system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. 1.

As shown in the figure, the entire communication system may include a communication terminal 200 and a billing processing system 100.

Here, the communication terminal 200 is a terminal operated by a customer who subscribes to a communication company, for example, a portable wireless communication terminal 200 such as a mobile phone, a smartphone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or a wired computer such as a computer provided in the home. It may be a communication terminal 200, but in this embodiment it is a smartphone.

The customer may operate the communication terminal 200 to request a list of contents or to request a payment process for a specific content, or may download and view content in which the payment process has been performed.

In the present embodiment, the transmission of the content is made by data communication, and for this data communication, it is assumed that the customer has already subscribed to a predetermined data plan.

The customer's subscription to the data plan does not exempt the fee for each paid content.

That is, even if the customer subscribes to each data plan, if the content to be viewed is paid content, the content can be downloaded and viewed only after payment for the content, which is the same as the conventional method.

Meanwhile, the billing processing system 100 performs billing processing according to the provision of content to customers who have subscribed to the data plan. The billing processing system 100 provides a list of contents to customers, provides a payment guide page for viewing contents, and requests from customers. In accordance with the payment processing and billing processing.

Here, the 'billing processing system 100 provided to the customer' means that the predetermined information or page is transmitted to the terminal used by the customer.

Specific functional blocks of the billing processing system 100 are as shown in FIG. 2.

As shown in the figure, the billing processing system 100 includes a request receiver 110, a payment processor 120, a billing processor 130, a speed limiter 140, a display controller 150, and a transport packet detector ( 160, the storage unit 170 may be configured. Furthermore, the billing processing system 100 may further include a content transmission unit (not shown) that performs a function of transmitting content, but the content transmission function may be performed in a separate server, and thus omitted in the present embodiment for convenience. It was.

First, the storage unit 170 stores information necessary for the operation of the billing processing system 100 and information generated during the operation of the billing processing system 100 or received from the outside. Information about the provided content, payment processing history made according to each customer's request, and billing information for charging each customer may be stored.

The display controller 150 controls the communication terminal 200 to display information related to the content, for example, a content list and detailed information of each content. For example, the display control unit 150 transmits a web page including a content list according to a request of the communication terminal 200.

In particular, when the customer wants to watch a specific content, the display control unit 150 controls to display the integrated payment guide page including both the individual content fee and the data fee corresponding to the specific content on the communication terminal 200. Also perform.

For example, when a signal for requesting to view a specific content is received from the communication terminal 200, the display controller 150 may determine the content itself rate (that is, the 'individual content rate') and the specific content for using the specific content. The integrated payment guide page including all data charges (ie, 'individual data charges) corresponding to data traffic generated when the content is transmitted may be transmitted to the communication terminal 200.

The request receiving unit 110 performs a function of receiving an integrated payment request for an individual content fee for using a specific content and an individual data fee related to data traffic of the specific content.

For example, the user of the communication terminal 200 may select both the 'individual content rate item' and the 'individual data rate item' included in the above-mentioned integrated payment guide page and request an integrated payment for the corresponding content. 110 receives the integrated payment request from the communication terminal 200.

The payment processing unit 120 performs a function of performing integrated payment processing for individual content rates and individual data rates for specific content according to the integrated payment request received by the request receiving unit 110.

That is, the payment processing unit 120 performs payment processing not only for the fee for using the content (individual content fee) but also for the fee (individual data fee) related to the data traffic generated when the content is transmitted.

In the payment processing method performed by the payment processing unit 120, payment necessary information such as credit card information provided by the customer and real-time payment by communication with a financial institution, or mobile phone payment in which payment is included in a mobile phone fee, etc. There is a, such a payment processing method corresponds to a known technique, so a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The transport packet detection unit 160 detects data traffic generated according to the corresponding data communication when data communication is performed with the communication terminal 200 of the customer.

For example, when predetermined content is transmitted to the corresponding communication terminal 200 in response to a request of the communication terminal 200, the amount of data traffic generated according to the content transmission is detected.

The billing processing unit 130 performs billing processing by using the detection result of the transport packet detecting unit 160. In particular, when the customer is provided with specific content that has been integrated payment processing, the data processing according to the transmission of the specific content is performed. Based on the data plan subscribed to by the customer, the data is processed separately from allowed data traffic.

For example, as described above, the type of data plan may include a subscription, a pay-as-you-go, unlimited plan, etc. Assuming that the customer has subscribed to the data subscription, the billing processing unit 130 subscribes to the previous subscription when data communication is performed. The data remaining amount according to the data plan (flat rate) is processed so that the data subtraction corresponding to the data communication is made, but the data subtraction is not performed for the data traffic generated by the transmission of the specific content in which the integrated payment processing is performed.

As a specific example, if 3GByte of data is left in the customer according to the data flat rate plan subscribed to by the customer and the data traffic according to the general data communication of the customer is 100Mbyte, the billing processing unit 130 subtracts the data traffic. Therefore, 2.9 Gbytes is changed to the residual data of the corresponding customer, and such deduction processing is not performed for the transmission of the specific content in which the integrated payment processing is performed.

This process can be performed without limitation for a predetermined period of time. For example, if the period set by consolidated payment is 3 days, the remaining amount of data according to the flat rate plan (3GByte in the example above), even if the customer downloads and watches the content for which the consolidated payment has been processed many times during 3 days. There is no change.

Thereafter, when the predetermined period elapses, the billing processor 130 may subtract data traffic generated according to the transmission of the specific content from the current residual data, as in the processing of other data traffic.

As another example, assuming that the customer has subscribed to the data pay-as-you-go, the billing processing unit 130 correlates the data traffic generated by the transmission of the specific content for which data integration payment processing is performed with the data pay-as-you-go rate of the customer. Unpaid processing can be performed without.

That is, if the customer has subscribed to the data-based payment system, the billing processing unit 130 accumulates and stores the data traffic according to the general content usage, calculates a charge by multiplying the accumulated value and the data-based payment rate, and charges the corresponding customer. As described above, the specific content for which the integrated payment is made can be omitted so that the data processing can be performed without charge.

On the other hand, the speed limiter 140 performs a function of limiting the data transmission speed when a predetermined condition according to the data plan subscribed to by the customer is satisfied.

For example, when a customer subscribes to an unlimited plan, the data usage fee of the customer is not charged. Instead, the speed limiter 140 performs data communication in excess of the preset data. In this case, the data communication speed (e.g. content transmission speed) is limited.

As a specific example, if the customer subscribes to the 'unlimited plan', but the accumulated amount of data traffic exhausted by the customer becomes 50 GByte, the speed limiter 140 sets a transmission rate of 10 kbyte / s for the subsequent data communication of the customer. Can be lowered.

The speed limiting function described above has been made in the related art, and the speed limiting unit 140 according to the present invention has a speed limit for data traffic generated due to the transmission of specific content in which integrated payment processing is performed even when the speed limiting is made. It differs from the prior art in that it performs a function of temporarily releasing.

The above-described billing processing system 100 may be physically composed of one server, or may be composed of a plurality of servers, and the above-described functions may be implemented by mutual communication between the plurality of servers.

Hereinafter, referring to FIG. 3, the billing processing system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described a process of performing an integrated payment process for specific content in response to a request of the communication terminal 200.

First, when the communication terminal 200 requests a content list (step S1), the charging processing system 100 extracts a previously registered content list and transmits it to the communication terminal 200 (step S3).

The communication terminal 200 displays a list of contents received from the charging processing system 100 (step S5), and if a user's payment selection is detected among the specific contents (step S7), the communication terminal 200 receives a payment page request signal. Transfer to 100 (step S9).

The billing processing system 100 transmits the integrated payment guide page to the communication terminal 200 when the requested content is the target of the integrated payment (step S11), where the specific content means 'the integrated payment target'. This means that the data fee corresponding to the content is registered and set so that payment can be made at one time.

Therefore, the integrated payment guide page may include information about an individual content fee for using the content and an individual data fee related to data traffic of the content.

 Although not shown in FIG. 3, if the requested content is not the subject of consolidated payment, the billing processing system 100 may include only the information about the content fee of the corresponding content (that is, the information on the individual data fee). The payment guide page (not included) is transmitted to the communication terminal 200.

The communication terminal 200 displays the integrated payment guide page received from the billing processing system 100 (step S13) so that the user can check it, and when the user selects the integrated payment selection (step S15), the billing processing system 100 ), The integrated payment request signal is transmitted (step S17).

The billing processing system 100 performs the integrated payment process for the corresponding content according to the integrated payment request of the communication terminal 200 (step S19).

That is, the billing processing system 100 performs payment processing for the sum of the above-mentioned 'individual content fee' and 'individual data fee'.

Subsequently, the billing processing system 100 registers the integrated settlement processing result (step S21). For example, the billing processing system 100 registers the content in which the integrated settlement processing is performed as 'data free'.

The term 'data free' here means that the data traffic for using the content will not be charged regardless of the data plan of the customer.

8 illustrates an example of a screen displayed on the communication terminal 200 for a 'data free' request.

That is, FIG. 8A illustrates a state in which the description of the specific content is displayed on the display unit 210 of the communication terminal 200 as the billing processing system 100 transmits the details of the specific content.

The content description may include a fee (ie, an individual content fee) 111 for using the corresponding content, and may further include a guide message 212 related to a so-called 'data free'.

In this state, when the user of the communication terminal 200 selects a 'view' item, for example, the billing processing system 100 causes the payment guide window to be displayed in a pop-up form as shown in FIG.

The payment instructions window includes a prompt message 213 that allows the user to select 'data free' in addition to the individual content charges.The user selects the 'data free' item 214 and then clicks the 'make a payment' button 216. When pressed, the communication terminal 200 transmits an integrated payment request signal for 5,000 won, which is a sum of an individual content fee (4,000 won) and an individual data fee (1,000 won), to the billing processing system 100.

Since the process performed in the billing processing system 100 is as described above, it will be omitted.

Hereinafter, a control process of the charging processing system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 to 6.

First, FIG. 4 shows a processing process when the data plan subscribed to by the customer is a 'flat fee'.

When content transmission occurs in response to a request of the communication terminal 200 (step S31), the charging processing system 100 determines whether the content is content registered as 'data free' mentioned in FIG. 3 (step S33).

As a result of the determination, if the corresponding content is not registered as 'data free' (step S33), and the data plan subscribed to by the customer is 'flat' (step S35), the billing processing system 100 transmits the data according to the content transmission. The traffic is subtracted from the remaining data according to the 'settlement system' (step S37).

If the determination result is that the content is registered as 'data free' (step S33), and the predetermined period has not elapsed (step S39), the billing processing system 100 skips the data subtraction process of step S37, Prevent additional charging due to data traffic of the content.

This has the effect that even if the data plan subscribed to by the customer is a flat rate, the unlimited plan is applied with regard to the delivery of specific content.

Such charging-related processing may be performed in real time at the time of content transmission, or may be performed using a record stored later after storing a record according to content transmission.

Next, FIG. 5 shows a processing process when the data plan subscribed to by the customer is a pay-as-you-go plan.

When content transmission occurs in response to a request of the communication terminal 200 (step S41), the charging processing system 100 determines whether the content is content registered as 'data free' mentioned in FIG. 3 (step S43).

As a result of the determination, if the corresponding content is not registered as 'data free' (step S43), and the data plan subscribed to by the customer is 'pay as used' (step S45), the billing processing system 100 transmits the data according to the content transmission. The charging process is performed in accordance with the 'pay-as-you-go' condition to which the traffic is subscribed (step S47). For example, charging is performed for the amount of data traffic generated and the pay-as-you-go rate.

If the determination result is that the content is registered as 'data free' (step S43), and the predetermined period has not elapsed (step S49), the charging processing system 100 skips the charging processing of step S47, Prevent additional charging due to data traffic of the content.

This has the effect that even if the data plan subscribed to by the customer is a pay-as-you-go plan, the unlimited plan is applied to the delivery of specific content.

Lastly, FIG. 6 shows a processing process when the transmission rate limit is set for data traffic used by the customer according to the data plan of the customer.

For example, if content delivery is performed while the transmission rate limit is set for the customer due to the excess of contracted data traffic (step S51) (step S53), the billing processing system 100 determines that the content is described in FIG. It is judged whether or not the content is registered as data free '(step S55).

As a result of the determination, if the corresponding content is registered as 'data free' (step S55) and the predetermined period has not elapsed (step S57), the charging processing system 100 temporarily cancels the transmission rate limit for the corresponding content (step S59). ), So that customers do not suffer from the slowdown in using the content.

This means that even if the data plan subscribed to by the customer is an unlimited plan on the premise of the speed limit, the unlimited plan without the speed limit is applied to the transmission of specific content.

Hereinafter, a content providing system 300 according to another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 7.

As shown in the figure, the content providing system 300 according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include a payment processing apparatus 310, a content providing apparatus 320, and a charging processing apparatus 331, 332. .

When the payment processing device 310 receives the integrated payment request for the individual content fee for the use of the specific content and the individual data fee related to the data traffic of the specific content from the communication terminal 200 operated by the customer, the received payment request is received. In accordance with the consolidated payment request, the integrated payment process for the individual content fee and the individual data fee for the specific content is performed.

In this case, the payment processing device 310 transmits a response signal including the content providing device 320 address and the unpaid flag information to the communication terminal 200 after performing the integrated payment processing.

In this case, the unpaid flag information is information that controls unpaid processing for data traffic generated due to the use of the corresponding content because the integrated payment processing is performed.

After receiving the response signal from the payment processing device 310, the communication terminal 200 requests the content providing device 320 to transmit content, and includes the flag information received from the payment processing device 310. .

The content providing device 320 manages at least one content and transmits the requested content to the communication terminal 200 when a content request signal including no charge flag information is received from the communication terminal.

In addition, when the content providing device 320 receives the content request signal including the unpaid flag information from the communication terminal 200, the content providing device 320 transmits a redirection signal including the prepaid unpaid port information to the communication terminal 200. 200 controls to retransmit the content request signal using the unpaid port information.

For example, the communication terminal 200 accesses the content providing device 320 using the content providing device 320 address (for example, an IP address) received from the payment processing device 310, and is set as a default or Or, access is made using a default port (for example, port 80) obtained from the payment processing device 310. Herein, access to the content providing device 320 means a content transmission request.

Then, when the content transfer request signal of the communication terminal 200 does not include the chargeless flag information, the content providing device 320 immediately transmits the requested content to the communication terminal 200, and if the communication terminal 200 is present. When the content request signal of the non-charged flag information includes the redirection signal including the pre-paid port information (for example, port 81) to the communication terminal 200.

Accordingly, the communication terminal 200 transmits a content request signal to the content providing device 320 again using the port 81.

The content providing device 320 transmits the content to the communication terminal 200 in response to a request using the port 81.

Meanwhile, the charging processing apparatuses 331 and 332 classify and process charging based on port information of the content request signal transmitted from the communication terminal to the content providing apparatus 320.

That is, the billing processing devices 331 and 332 may be configured as a gateway and a billing processing server, where the gateway monitors a communication packet between the communication terminal 200 and the content providing device 320, and in particular, an IP address and a port number of the communication packet. The billing processing server performs a charging process based on the IP address and the port number obtained through communication with the gateway.

In FIG. 7, the billing processing devices 331 and 332 are divided into a gateway and a billing processing server. However, the billing processing devices 331 and 332 may be configured as a single device.

Referring to the example described above, the billing processing apparatuses 331 and 332 process billing based on the data plan subscribed to by the customer for data traffic of content provided in response to a request to port 80 of the communication terminal 200. The data traffic of the content provided according to the request to the port 81 of the communication terminal 200 is performed without charge regardless of the data plan subscribed by the customer.

Referring to the function of each component of FIG. 7, it can be seen that the billing processing system 100 illustrated in FIG. 1 corresponds to the payment processing device 310 and the billing processing devices 331 and 332 of FIG. 7.

As described above, the payment processing apparatus 310 notifies the communication terminal 200 of only the unpaid flag information instead of the port number (for example, 81) for unpaid processing after performing the integrated payment processing, and provides the content providing apparatus 320. Is configured to reconnect to the uncharged port according to whether the corresponding uncharged flag information is included, thereby minimizing an error caused by the uncharged port change.

For example, the content providing device 320 may change the unpaid port from time to time for security reasons. If the subject that informs the communication terminal 200 of the port number for unpaid processing is called the payment processing device 310, The content providing device 320 should inform the payment processing device 310 of the changed port number.

However, due to a slight time difference at the time of the change, the communication terminal 200 may receive an uncharged port number before the change, and in this case, normal communication may not be performed between the communication terminal 200 and the content providing device 320. have.

Therefore, as shown in the present embodiment, the payment processing apparatus 310 notifies only the flag information to the communication terminal 200, and the subject that informs the actual communication terminal 200 of the port number for the no-payment processing becomes the content providing apparatus 320. The occurrence of the above-described problem can be prevented in advance.

On the other hand, the process of performing each of the above-described embodiments can be performed by a program or an application stored in a predetermined recording medium (for example, computer readable). Here, the recording medium includes both an electronic recording medium such as a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic recording medium such as a hard disk, an optical recording medium such as a compact disk (CD), and the like.

In this case, the program stored in the recording medium may be executed on hardware such as a computer or a smartphone to perform the above-described embodiments. In particular, at least one of the above-described billing processing system and functional blocks of the content providing system may be implemented by such a program or application.

In addition, this invention is not limited to the above-mentioned specific Example, It can implement in a various deformation | transformation and correction within the range which does not deviate from the summary of this invention. In particular, in the above-described embodiment, the terminal requesting the integrated payment and the terminal using the actual content are the same. However, each terminal may be different under the assumption that the customer information is linked.

It will be apparent that such variations and modifications are included in the present invention as long as they belong to the appended claims.

100: billing processing system 200: communication terminal
110: request receiving unit 120: payment processing unit
130: billing processing unit 140: speed limiting unit
150: display control unit 160: transport packet detection unit
170: storage unit 300: content providing system
310: payment processing device 320: content providing device
330 charging device

Claims (8)

In the billing processing method of the billing processing system that performs billing processing according to the provision of content to customers who have subscribed to a data plan that limits the data rate when a predetermined condition is satisfied,
(a) receiving a consolidated payment request for viewing specific content from a customer;
(b) performing an integrated payment process for viewing the specific content according to the integrated payment request;
(c) when the specific content is provided to the customer after performing the integrated payment process, distinguishing and processing data traffic according to the transmission of the specific content from the allowed data traffic based on the subscribed data plan. Including,
In the step (c), when a predetermined condition according to the subscribed data plan is satisfied and the data transmission rate is limited, the content in which the integrated payment is made is temporarily provided to the viewer by releasing the data transmission rate limit according to the data plan. The billing processing method characterized by the above-mentioned. The method of claim 1,
In the step (c),
If the data transmission rate limit is made because a predetermined condition according to the subscribed data plan is satisfied, the amount of data traffic accumulated by the customer exceeds the preset data. The method of claim 1,
In the step (c), the data traffic according to the transmission of the specific content is distinguished from the allowed data traffic based on the subscribed data plan only during the predetermined period according to the integrated payment processing in the step (b). The billing processing method characterized by the above-mentioned. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method of any one of claims 1 to 3. An application program stored on a computer readable medium in combination with hardware to execute the method of any one of claims 1 to 3. In the billing processing system that performs the billing processing according to the provision of content to customers who have subscribed to the data plan that limits the data rate when a predetermined condition is satisfied,
A request receiving unit for receiving an integrated payment request for viewing specific content from a customer;
A payment processor configured to perform integrated payment processing for viewing the specific content according to the integrated payment request;
A billing processor configured to process data traffic according to transmission of the specific content separately from data traffic allowed based on the subscribed data plan when the specific content is provided to the customer after performing the integrated payment processing;
And a speed limiter for limiting a data transmission speed when a predetermined condition according to the subscribed data plan is satisfied.
The rate limiting unit, if the data transmission rate limit is made by the rate limiting unit, billing processing system, characterized in that for providing content to the viewer by temporarily canceling the data transmission rate limit according to the data plan. The method of claim 6,
If the rate limiting data transfer rate limit is satisfied because the predetermined condition according to the subscribed data plan is satisfied, the rate limiting unit includes a case in which the accumulated amount of data traffic exhausted by the customer exceeds a preset data. system. The method of claim 6,
The billing processing unit may process data traffic according to the transmission of the specific content separately from data traffic allowed based on the subscribed data plan only during a predetermined period of time according to the integrated payment processing made by the payment processing unit. Billing processing system.

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