Patent ID: 7054843

Claim:
A method for anonymous payment of a subscriber for a service of a network, said method comprising the steps of: requesting a service by a subscriber using a mobile terminal; transmitting encrypted payment information from the mobile terminal to an access node; reading, by the access node, the encrypted payment information; adding, by the access node, a transaction number to the encrypted payment information; transmitting the encrypted payment information from the access node to a credential verifier server identified in the payment information; decrypting, by the credential verifier server, the encrypted payment information; verifying, by the credential verifier server, whether the decrypted payment information is correct; transmitting the transaction number and a positive acknowledgment from the credential verifier sewer to the access node; transmitting a message including an IP address and the positive acknowledgment from the access node to the mobile terminal; and storing in a policy enforcement point the IP address associated with the service requested by the subscriber.