Patent ID: 7590406

Claim:
A method of recording allocation of resources in response to a request, the method comprising: receiving the request for a data item from a mobile terminal to be transmitted to a device in a network, the request comprising data indicative of one or more requested items; accessing a storage system so as to identify data listings having items providing a match with the requested data item; retrieving data indicative of a network location, the network location being indicative of a web page and corresponding to the or each matched data item, the network location having a set of data corresponding to the matched data item; retrieving data indicative of an amount of data and a resource allocation associated with the set of data accessible via the network location; on the basis of a network subscription associated with the device and the amount of data, evaluating an actual usage of network resources when accessing the set of data; in the event that the set of data are accessed from said network location, offsetting said evaluated actual usage against the resource allocation so as to identify an amount of usage of the network resources to be charged to the network subscription; and updating a record associated with said data listings so as to log a resource allocation event.