Patent ID: 8543086

Claim:
A method of billing or charging a receiver for a mobile communication being a message, the method including the steps of: a receiver electing to receive a message from a telecommunications carrier; an at least one first party collating information on a subject, wherein the subject is a student, and constructing a message based on the collated information, the first party having a credit pool, and wherein the receiver is related to the subject; determining a status of the credit pool of the first party; determining a status of the receiver according to pre-set schedule; adding or subtracting a credit to the credit pool in accordance to the status of the receiver the first party forwarding the message to a premium Short Message Service (SMS) aggregator to aggregate messages; the premium SMS aggregator submitting aggregated messages to a telecommunications carrier; forwarding of the messages to the receiver by the telecommunications carriers network; the telecommunications carrier registering a charge against the receiver of the messages in relation to a pre-set scale; the receiver paying the charge direct to the telecommunications carrier; the telecommunications carrier aggregates a revenue share based on messages sent to receivers; and paying a percentage of the revenue share to the premium SMS aggregator.