Communication charge calculation system for mobile telephone communications, communication charge calculation method, information server, mobile telephone terminal, and programs therefor

Abstract

A mobile telephone terminal (103) notifies an information server of information on incoming data received from a gateway device (102). The information server (104) calculates the communication rate in a mobile telephone network (101) by means of a communication rate calculation equation for the calculation, from the quantity of the outgoing data received from the mobile telephone terminal (103) through the gateway device (102), the information on the incoming data notified from the mobile telephone terminal (103), and the quantity of data for the communications with the mobile telephone terminal (103), and determines the charge for the communication rate calculated.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a technique for calculating a communication fee when a mobile phone terminal uses an information server in information communication using a mobile phone terminal, and more particularly to a technique for calculating a communication fee with a small error from the fee charged by a mobile phone operator . Background technique [0002] Portable terminals, especially due to the remarkable development of information communication functions and information processing capabilities of mobile phone terminals, a high degree of information processing accompanying communication can be performed by portable terminals, and information provided by companies to personal computers in companies can be used by mobile phone terminals The cases of service are increasing. [0003] In the case of a personal contract between the mobile phone terminal user himself and the mobile phone carrier, when the mobile phone terminal uses the company's...

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[0012] In the public-private computing method disclosed in Patent Document 1, when information is sent from the proxy server to the mobile phone, the gateway device terminates the information from the proxy server and transmits the information from the gateway device to the mobile phone. The mobile phone moving in the train requests information from the information server, and when the information server transmits the information to the mobile phone at the time when the communication becomes impossible after entering a tunnel or the like, the proxy server relays the information from the information server and transmits the information. to the gateway device, but does not actually communicate from the gateway to the mobile phone

In this case, the communication fee generated by the communication with the gateway is calculated / totaled in the proxy server, but the mobile phone operator does not actually charge, and the calculated result calculated by the proxy server and the calculated amount by the mobile phone operator There is a discrepancy between the charges

[0013] Furthermore, in the communication fee calculation method disclosed in Patent Document 1, the communication fee is calculated based on the amount of data transmitted and received between the proxy server and the mobile phone, but in actual communication of the mobile phone, a communication fee between the mobile phone and the gateway device is established. Communication costs within the mobile phone network that cannot be measured by proxy servers, such as connections, are also charged

In the communication fee calculation system of Patent Document 1 that does not consider these overheads, the error from the fee calculated by the mobile phone carrier further increases

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