INTERNET CHARGING METHOD/SYSTEM AND MEDIUM FOR RECORDING INTERNET CHARGING PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an internet charging method/system which a person without a credit card can use and which can securely reject undesired ordering and to provide a medium for recording an internet charging program. ;SOLUTION: A terminal makes a request to a content server for the use of pay service by using a prepaid information medium holding information on ID, a password, a usable service type and service usable frequency. The content server requests a prepaid information management server to certify whether the prepaid information medium has qualification for using the pay service of the content or not, and to impose charging on the prepaid information medium. Then, the prepaid information management server executes certification on the prepaid information medium and a charging processing corresponding to the use frequency of pay service on the prepaid information medium, and the content server supplies pay service to the terminal.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1999,JPO