Patent ID: 7970703

Claim:
An Internet billing method by a vendor, comprising: establishing a first communication session between equipment of the vendor and equipment of a third party; establishing during the first communication session a remitting arrangement with the third party to remit to an account associated with the vendor a portion of a transaction amount billed to at least one billing account associated with at least one customer of the third party for products or services other than Internet access, purchased over the Internet by the at least one customer from the vendor; establishing a second communication session over the Internet between the equipment of the vendor and the equipment of the at least one customer, wherein the second communication session over the Internet is enabled by a communications link of the equipment of the third party; receiving during the second communication session at least one communication over the Internet indicating that the at least one customer initiated an order for a product or service from the vendor and authorized a purchase transaction for said product or service for a transaction amount; directing the equipment of the vendor to initiate a delivery of the product or service to the at least one customer after receiving the at least one communication and without submitting a billing request to the equipment of the third party with respect to the purchase transaction; and receiving a portion of the transaction amount at the account associated with the vendor in accordance with the remitting arrangement without submitting the billing request to the equipment of the third party.