公开(公告)号：US09911106B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-06

申请号：US14141143

申请日：2013-12-26

Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Rainer Schoenen ,  Halim Yanikomeroglu

IPC: G07F19/00 ,  H04M15/00 ,  G06Q20/14 ,  G06Q20/08 ,  G06Q20/12 ,  H04L12/14

CPC classification number: G06Q20/145 ,  G06Q20/085 ,  G06Q20/127 ,  H04L12/1432 ,  H04L12/1435 ,  H04L12/1485 ,  H04M15/43 ,  H04M15/58 ,  H04M15/61 ,  H04M15/80 ,  H04M15/81

Abstract: Embodiments are provided for enabling dynamic pricing of services to users. The amount of usage all or different services are quantized into quanta of minimum usage units, such as to an amount of effective bits (eBits) in communications services. The amount of usage of the different services is weighted differently, such as according to service cost or demand, to obtain corresponding amount of quanta of usage or eBits for each service. The amount of quanta of usage or eBits for the different services is summed up to provide a total amount of quanta of usage or eBits. The total amount of quanta of usage or eBits is converted into a total charge, as a product of the total amount of quanta of usage or eBits, or a monotonic function of the total amount, and a fixed charge rate per quanta of usage or eBit.