Patent ID: 6240091
Filing Date: 2001-05-29
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
A method for implementing an access service in a telecommunications network including an access network, a services network providing services, and user-operated terminals connected to the access network, the method comprising the steps ofproviding the access service by connecting, through interface elements, the user terminal to the services network providing the services,generating at least one charging record as a response to the access service, said record being relayed to billing means for charging a subscriber of the access service for the access service,using the terminal to generate charging messages provided with subscriber-specific digital signatures to the network,verifying outside the terminal the signatures generated by the terminal,connecting the terminal to the services network providing the services, if said messages provided with subscriber-specific digital signatures are successfully verified, received according to a predefined rate and the signatures included in the messages are verified as valid, andsending from the terminal data concerning the current user of the terminal, and using said data to verify validity of the signatures and to target the charging messages received from the terminal in order to bill the subscriber in question.