Method and system for location-dependent billing for services

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PATENT NO 8238874
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13152967

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A method for location-dependent billing for a services that are available to a mobile terminal, a local communication connection is set up to a fixably installed external location tag with a corresponding wireless interface between the fixably installed tag and the mobile terminal, the method including the steps of accessing the external location tag and transmitting a billing rate code from the external location tag to the mobile terminal, forwarding the billing rate code from the mobile terminal to a central unit of a mobile communication network, in which the mobile terminal is logged, determining a geographic location identification of the external location tag by evaluation of the billing rate code at the central unit, and selecting a billing rate for billing for the service available to the user based on the billing rate code at the central unit.

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INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS SAS3 RUE DU COLONEL MOLL 75017 PARIS 75017

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Aebi, Paul Münchringen, CH 17 195

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