Patent ID: 8234364
Filing Date: 2012-07-31
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. An internet connection system, comprising: a plurality of wireless LAN base stations, each located in a corresponding predetermined location; a wireless terminal located in each of the predetermined locations, each wireless terminal wireless LAN connected to a sub-plurality of the wireless LAN base stations, one of the sub-plurality of wireless LAN base stations located in the same predetermined location as the wireless terminal and the other of the sub-plurality of wireless LAN base stations located in a different location, wherein each of the wireless LAN base stations is respectively connected to the internet via a corresponding gateway and a corresponding access line connected to the gateway, and wherein the wireless LAN base stations, wireless terminals and gateway are arranged to measure a communication speed from each of the wireless terminals to the internet through each of the sub-plurality of wireless LAN base stations to which the wireless terminal is wireless LAN connected, and are arranged to selectively connectively connect the wireless terminals to the internet through the gateway and through the wireless LAN base station of the sub-plurality of wireless LAN base stations having the highest measured communication speed, and a charging server, connected to the common gateway, arranged to record a communication band usage for each of the terminals indicating a quantity of communications between each of the terminals and the internet, based on the unique location identifiers within the communications, and arranged to generate a communication fee data unique to each of the wireless terminals, based on a ratio of the recorded communication band usage for the wireless terminal associated with the data to a total of the recorded communication band usage of all of the wireless terminals, wherein the gateway and the terminals are arranged to assign a preset maximum communication speed for each location, and are arranged to detect a communication band sum for each location, representing a sum of communications generated by all terminals associated with the location, and are arranged to set, in response to the detected communication band sum exceeding the maximum communication speed, a communication operation of all of the terminals associated with the location to a waiting state and to resume the communication operation of all of the terminals in the location when the detected communication band sum becomes lower than the maximum communication speed for the location.