WIRELESS LAN ROUTER, SKYPE CREDIT MANAGEMENT SERVER, OPEN FREQUENCY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVER AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To encourage a demander to purchase a wireless LAN router, and to encourage an owner who purchased the wireless LAN router to open it to other persons as an access point.;SOLUTION: An open frequency information reporting unit 300 provided in a wireless LAN router 20 defines the amount or the number of times, stored in an open frequency information storage unit 205, of opening the router 20 to the other person as an access point as open frequency information and transmits the information to a Skype credit management server 80 via an open frequency information management server 60. An open expense service providing unit 321 provided in the server 80 that receives the information, provides a Skype credit to an owner of the wireless LAN router 20 as an expense of opening the router on the basis of the open frequency information.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT