Patent ID: 7895126

Claim:
A method for selective billing of at least one of a plurality of access-controlled programs and data which are encrypted and broadcast unidirectionally by a broadcast transmitter via a broadcasting network, comprising: receiving at least one of a plurality of purchased encrypted and unidirectionally broadcast access-controlled programs and data, by a mobile receiving device, via the broadcasting network using a first channel, at least one of the plurality of access-controlled programs and data being decrypted in the mobile receiving device for access to at least one the plurality of access-controlled programs and data by a user of the mobile receiving device upon received access conditions data for at least one of the plurality of access-controlled programs and data coinciding with authorization data stored in the mobile receiving device; storing, in the mobile receiving device, a monetary value in a data memory of the mobile receiving device; determining, in the mobile receiving device, costs for access to a selected one of the plurality of access-controlled programs and data in the mobile receiving device based on received cost data for the selected one of the plurality of access-controlled programs and data; preventing, in the mobile receiving device, access to the selected one of the plurality of access-controlled programs and data in the mobile receiving device upon the determined costs being greater than the stored monetary value; deducting, in the mobile receiving device, the costs for access to the selected one of the plurality of access-controlled programs and data from the stored monetary value; generating billing records in the mobile receiving device and storing the billing records in a data memory of the mobile receiving device, wherein billing records include at least one of the cost amounts and cost parameters for calculation of the cost amounts for the access to the selected one of the plurality of access-controlled programs and data and an identification of the vendor of the selected one of the plurality of access-controlled programs and data; and transmitting the generated billing records, by the mobile receiving device via a mobile radio network using a second channel, to a billing center, which credits credit items to a vendor of the selected one of the plurality of access-controlled programs and data.