Patent ID: 8510219

Claim:
A method of operating a billing management package for charged access transactions on the Internet, said method comprising the steps of: querying a user to select at least one desired domain and/or specific web site, wherein the at least one desired domain and/or specific web site are located on a web server operating the billing management; querying the user to enter terms for at least one desired product, service, and/or data; using a computer to search the at least one desired domain and/or specific web site for the desired product, service, and/or data; querying a user to select a billing access option, the billing option being selected from a group consisting of time billing and per page billing; downloading at least one found desired product, service, and/or data; updating, by the web server, user records based on the at least one downloaded desired product, service, and/or data; ceasing billing upon an indication by the user and recording a billing stamp, wherein the billing stamp indicates a duration of time if the selected billing option is time billing or a number of downloaded pages of desired product, service, and/or data if the selected billing option is per page billing; determining, by the web server, a billing amount based on the billing stamp; debiting the user's account the billing amount and crediting at least one vendor based on the downloaded desired product, service, and/or data.