ONLINE BILLING OF REAL-TIME CONTENT ON MOBILE PHONES

摘要

The present invention relates to a method for a consumer device of performing payment of real time content received from a service provider, wherein said payment is performed while receiving said real time content on said consumer device, said method comprises transmitting a user accepted payment instruction to a payment central, followed by transmitting a payment notification to said service provider, said service provider being adapted for receiving said payment notification at said service provider and continuing to deliver said real time content to said consumer device based on said received payment notification. Thereby e.g. a mobile phone user continuously can pay for downloading real time content using on-line payment e.g. through premium charged Mobile originated SMS and where the content supplier can continue supplying the real time content regardless of the transaction and transfer time of the payment, which thereby becomes a trusted transaction. In an embodiment the method will allow a user account to have a defined line of credit, where content will be delivered regardless of the transaction time of the payment. Once payment information arrives from the payment system, the user account will be updated and credits cleared.