Patent ID: 7529711

Claim:
Method of providing and billing Internet services, wherein a user may select among a plurality of service profiles, comprising the steps of: assigning a service telephone number to each of said service profiles, such that each service profile is uniquely identified by its service telephone number, subscribing the user for being billed for Internet services and providing the user with a logon information associated with a user telephone number and identifying at least one of said service profiles with said logon information; storing said logon information and said at least one identified service profile in a database; when the user selects and using said logon information logs on to one of said service profiles, accessing said database to check whether the user has subscribed for being billed for that service profile on said user telephone number through a telephone network operator, and, if this is the case, allowing access to the selected service profile, when access is allowed, creating a call detail record including the user telephone number as calling number and the service telephone number of the selected service profile as called number, and transmitting the call detail record to a billing system of said telephone network operator.