CONVERGENT COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM AND METHOD FOR MOBILE AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide mobile commerce, electronic commerce, consumer care and communication services via networks.;SOLUTION: A method includes: receiving in a roaming network from a user device, an identification number and a request for a service; and adding, to the identification number and the request for the service, a service provider identification number relating to a service provider and a cost of the service, if the service is to be charged, and forwarding from the roaming network to a home network, the identification number and the request for the service. The method further includes: providing an authorization to the service provider, if a convergent communication platform located on the home network determines that the identification number relates to a valid user account, that the user device is authorized to receive the service, and that the valid user account has sufficient value; and charging the valid user account on a real time basis for providing the service, if the service is to be charged.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2015,JPO&INPIT