UA66736A - Method for managing access to the paid resources of the internet network - Google Patents

Abstract

The proposed method for managing access to the paid resources of the Internet network consists in initiating the user request for the access permission from the user terminal connected to the mobile communication network serviced by the correspondingoperator, transmitting the said request to the request management operator that provides access permissions, receiving the access permission by the request management operator from the Internet network operator, and transmitting the access permission to the user terminal. For transmitting the access request from the user terminal and access permission to the user terminal, SMS, short text messages are used.

Description

Description of the invention

The invention relates to ways of conducting commercial activities and can find application in the field of payment for 2 different goods and services of network users, including in the Global Internet.

Internet users sooner or later have the need to purchase a service from any commercial Content provider. In order to realize his wish, he must take a number of actions by becoming a client of this Content provider (that is, register, pay a subscription for services). In order to do all these actions, interest in this particular service must be sustained over a fairly long period of time. 70 The price of the offered service must correspond to the amount of information, as well as the need for the client during the entire subscription period.

There are various systems for providing paid services on the Internet. Internet commerce system, or abbreviated

SIC, (in the English version 5IS BZuviet og Ipiegpei Sottegse) is a complex of organizational, technical, communication and software tools designed for the creation and development of an environment of interaction of subjects of 12 commercial activities on the Internet. The fastest growing directions in Internet commerce can be divided into two groups: 1) payment for services using a card payment component; 2) payment of services using means of the telephone communication network.

According to the first method, the principle of payment is based on the registration of an Internet user at the bank (opening of an account) with the subsequent use of the specified account to pay for services on the Internet through the processing center of the Internet Commerce System (05 00/23817 (30.08.2000), UMO 01/ 16900 (03/08/2001).

The disadvantage of these methods of paying for services is the lack of confidentiality of payments, because personal information must be provided when issuing payment cards. The level of security is also insufficient, because if someone finds out the card number, they have the opportunity to use the corresponding account.

The second direction in the development of Internet commerce includes a system containing the server of the seller of services, the user's personal computer connected to the Internet and a means of servicing subscribers of the telephone network. The essence of such methods is that the user establishes a communication session with the server of the seller of services using a personal computer using the Internet and requests the service he needs. Then establishes contact with the server of the seller of services using voice communication over the telephone network. The seller of services with the help of the appropriate server compares the code number of the subscriber of the telephone network, received from the user via the telephone network, with the information received from the user's personal computer via the Internet and provides access to resources. (KI in 2171546). The disadvantage of such methods is the simultaneous use of two communication lines, while most Ge) users use a line of the telephone network of communication to connect to the Internet. In addition, the use of voice communication has an increased probability of error during data transmission. eh

The technical result of this invention is the simplification of payments for services, in particular the mechanism of access to paid services on the Internet. The user gets access almost immediately after sending a short text message - SMS (ЗМ5 - Zpogi Mezzede Zegmise), ensuring the confidentiality of customer payments. C 50 The invention provides for payment for access to Internet resources using communication terminals connected to c networks of mobile mobile (cellular or satellite) communication using the SMS system - c" short text messages.

The system that allows the implementation of this invention consists of a User, a mobile operator,

Service Provider and Content Provider.

The user can be a user of a mobile cellular connection of a mobile operator, whether it is a contract or prepaid form of connection, which has the ability to use a mobile terminal

Ge") to form, send and receive SMS short text messages and who are Internet users.

Transport network - a set of hardware, connection channels and other technological and infrastructure, including the Internet, necessary for the construction and operation of an automated so 20 system of information exchange between the User, the mobile operator, the Service Provider and

Content Provider. The Service Provider is the software and hardware complex of the Service Provider, which provides the User with the requested "Authorization Code", as well as providing informational support for the provision of the "Authorization Code".

The authorization code should be understood as the key information that the User receives from the Content Provider 29 with the help of the Service Provider and the Mobile Operator. The user, having presented the authorization code in response to his request, gets access to the requested Content.

The billing system is a software and hardware complex (of a mobile operator or Service Provider) used to record the work of Users, payments for services and the performance of a number of related functions. 60 Authorization code request is a User's action aimed at obtaining an "Authorization Code". The request is made by sending an SMS message (short text message) containing business information from the User's mobile terminal to the specified special phone number

Service Provider.

Content is a set of systematized data of information and service content, or a set of services provided in voice, text or graphic form at the request of the User.

Access to paid services on the Internet takes place in several stages: 1. The user is interested in receiving information posted on the Content Provider's web resource. 2. The Content Provider informs the User about the cost of information (services), and offers to send an SMS to the specified number and to indicate service information in the body of the SMS. Service information can be a series of characters (for example, numeric), which is a Request for Authorization Code. 3. The user sends an SMS to the specified number. 4. The mobile operator delivers the SMS to the Service Provider. 5. The Service Provider, using the Transport Network and its own Automated System, receives an SMS from the 7/0 communication operator, which is the User's Request to receive the Authorization Code for accessing the Content. 6. The Service Provider, based on the information sent by the User in the body of the SMS, determines on which web resource and which information was requested and, using the above means, requests the Authorization Code from the appropriate

Content Provider. 7. The Content Provider provides the Service Provider with the corresponding Content authorization code upon request. The /5 authorization code can be a series of characters or several groups of characters, which, for example, can be a password for accessing the corresponding resource (service, information). 8. The Service Provider provides the delivery of the Authorization Code to the User, using at the same time

The transport network, including the network of the mobile operator. 9. The mobile operator delivers an SMS with the authorization code to the information (service) requested by the User to the mobile terminal. 10. The Content Provider provides Content, using the Transport Network, for any User who has provided the Content Provider with a valid Authorization Code. 11. The mobile communications operator withholds from the Users the cost of the SMS delivery services provided by the User with the Authorization Code Request and received with the Authorization Code to the Internet resource

Content Provider. 12. The communication operator pays the Service Provider for the delivery of the Authorization Code from "

Content Provider to the User. 13. The Service Provider pays the Content Provider for the services of providing the Authorization Code to the Internet resources of the respective Content Provider. This example may be considered as one of the options for using this invention and should not be considered as the only and final method of application. and,

Example. M

The visitor of the Internet resource requests access to the information posted on the Internet resource using a computer and a browser (special software for viewing Internet resources). In order to pay for access, he is invited to send an SMS (short text message) to a special number of the operator, while indicating in the body of the message information (numerical or symbolic code) that uniquely identifies the requested information. Upon receipt of a short text message from the subscriber to the specified number, the communication operator withholds from the subscriber an amount equal to the cost of the requested Content and forwards the short text message to the Service Provider. Service Provider «

Informs the Content Provider about the receipt of a short text message and a request for an authorization code that pt») was sent in the message. According to the request code that was sent by the Visitor of the Internet resource, the owner of the Internet resource clearly determines what information was requested and paid for and provides access to ;" internet resource to the User. Access is provided by sending the access code to the Internet resource to the User's mobile terminal.

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Claims (9)

Formula of the invention - I 1. The method of access to paid resources of the Internet network, which involves the user's request for the Authorization Code 5r to the specified Internet resource using a mobile terminal that is connected to the network of the Operator for mobile communication, the delivery of the request for the Authorization Code to the Service Provider , which provides the user F with the requested authorization code, the Service Provider receiving the authorization code for the specified resource from the content provider providing this resource, sending the corresponding authorization code to the user's mobile terminal, which differs in that the user's request for the authorization code for paid resources and providing him with the specified Code is carried out by sending an SMS - a short text message. 2. The method according to claim 1, which is distinguished by the fact that the user terminal allows you to create, send and » receive SMS - short text messages containing digital and/or symbolic data. Q. The method according to claim 1, which differs in that SMS - a short text message is sent to a special number. in 4. The method according to claim 1, which differs in that SMS - a short text message sent by the user to a special number, is a request for the Authorization Code. 5. The method according to claim 1, which differs in that the SMS is a short text message delivered by the mobile operator to the user's terminal and contains an authorization code. b. The method according to claim 1, which differs in that the body of the SMS - a short text message, contains 65 information identifying the requested paid Internet resources. 7. The method according to item b, which differs in that the information identifying the requested Internet resource, is contained on the Internet resource of the Content Provider. 8. The method according to claim 1, which differs in that the Content Provider is connected to the automated system of the Service Provider. 9. The method according to claim 1, which differs in that the Service Provider can be a structural division of the Content Provider. Official bulletin "Industrial Property". Book 1 "Inventions, useful models, topographies of integrated microcircuits", 2004, M 5, 15.05.2004. State Department of Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. « (Se) so cha (Se) (Se) - with . and? (22) (22) -I o 50 42) 60 b5