• DocumentCode
    3022216
  • Title

    E-charging API: outsource charging to a payment service provider

  • Author

    Lüttge, Karsten

  • Author_Institution
    Siemens AG, Berlin, Germany
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    6-9 May 2001
  • Firstpage
    216
  • Lastpage
    222
  • Abstract
    This presentation is about charging for content or application usage. We propose a new API (application programming interface) that allows content servers or application hosts to delegate the charging process to a payment service provider. The new API: 1) does not depend on the type of the application to be charged, 2) does not care about when and how the customer is billed, 3) is able to support prepaid as well as postpaid customers, and 4) is designed to be carried by the public Internet
  • Keywords
    Internet; application program interfaces; economics; electronic commerce; invoicing; application hosts; application programming interface; application usage charging; content charging; content servers; e-charging API; outsource charging; payment service provider; public Internet; Books; Digital audio players; Displays; File servers; Internet; Mobile handsets; Subscriptions; Telephony; Testing; Web server;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Intelligent Network Workshop, 2001 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Boston, MA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7047-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/INW.2001.915316
  • Filename
    915316