Patent ID: 7444411

Claim:
An internet interface service system providing high-speed connection services to mobile terminals carried by respective users in public places, said system comprising: an internet network for providing the high-speed connection services; plural interface units, one for each of said mobile terminals, for connecting the mobile terminals of said respective users to the internet network so as to provide the respective users with internet services; and a central management server connected to the internet network and responsive to the input into the interface units of settlement information relating to the mobile terminals for carrying out usage authentications of the mobile terminals by performing data communications with an external settlement server which carries out settlements upon reception of the settlement information from the interface units, said central management server allocating dynamic IP addresses enabling the mobile terminals to carry out internet searches, and said central management server being responsive to reception, by a given mobile terminal from a corresponding interface unit, of a signal terminating a corresponding internet connection for releasing a corresponding dynamic IP address allocated to the given mobile terminal and for transmitting charge information with respect to a corresponding internet connection service of the given mobile terminal.