Providing different network services to a network agent

摘要

Differing network services can be provided to a single network agent such that a single agent can access services billed to different accounts. Different services and billed to different accounts by the network agent sending a network agent identifier to the network which identifies the agent. After an agent is identified, it sends a service qualifier that identifies a service being requested and an account to which the service should be billed or charged.

主权项

1. A method of providing differing services through a single network to a single network agent, the method comprising:
receiving at a network a network agent identifier from a network agent, wherein the network agent identifier comprises data that identifies the network agent and which identifies to the network a plurality of services that the network agent is eligible to receive through the network; receiving at the network a service qualifier for the network agent, wherein the service qualifier is sent to the network from the network agent and identifies to the network a service, of the plurality of services, to be provided to the network agent through the network and that the network agent is entitled to receive, and identifies an account to be associated by the network for the service provided to the network agent, and wherein the service qualifier is determined by the network agent from a password provided by a user to the network agent; providing the service comprising a first service through the network to the network agent when the service qualifier is a first service qualifier; and providing the service comprising a second service through the network to the network agent when the service qualifier is a second service qualifier.