Patent ID: 7031940
Filing Date: 2006-04-18
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A charge collecting system connected by a network to user terminals operated by a plurality of users, the system comprising: a use information management unit which manages use information of the plurality of users and generates requested contents related to such use information for each of the plurality of users as of a closing date of a predetermined period of time during which each respective user is authorized to use the charge collection system; a notice information management unit which manages the requested contents to be notified to each of the plurality of users via the network according to a corresponding user address on the network provided by the use information management unit for each of the respective users; a requested contents notice unit which transmits to each of the users via the network, the corresponding requested contents and a payment execution information including an address of the notice information management unit to which a paying instruction regarding the corresponding requested contents is to be sent; and a settlement unit which makes a real-time settlement on the network when there is an access by one of the plurality of users to the paying address notified by the requested contents notice unit and the paying instruction regarding the corresponding requested contents from the one user is received.