Patent ID: 7457610
Filing Date: 2008-11-25
Classification: G06Q,H04M

Abstract:
1. A content providing method of a content provider connecting to a communication carrier which conducts a proxy payment for the content provider, said content providing method comprising: receiving a content-requesting signal directly from a user's portable telephone; acquiring a menu registration identifier from the communication carrier when the content-requesting signal does not include the menu registration identifier, which menu registration identifier indicates that the users portable telephone is registered for the requested content service in a user menu information database of the communications carrier, content-requesting; suppressing the acquiring the menu registration identifier when the content-requesting signal includes the menu registration identifier, wherein said content-requesting signal is transmitted when the user selects one content from a list of at least one content only which the user's portable telephone has been registered from a regular menu including contents which will be available after a registration; and the menu registration identifier allows providing the requested content service directly from the content provider to the user's portable telephone and renders a separate authentication process unnecessary; and providing the requested content service to the user's portable telephone.