Appeal No. 2005-1615
Application 09/800,535
corresponding to that IP address” (col. 7, lines 16-21). That
request is a first message that indicates the making of a
financial transaction and includes customer information (the IP
address) and customer information (the billing mechanism).
If, at the transaction server, a database entry for that
IP address is not confirmed, the ISP receives a non-confirmation
signal (col. 7, lines 21-29). Thus, Ronen determines the
validity of the customer information and generates a second
message (the non-confirmation signal) if the customer information
is invalid.
The billing server has stored on a database (112), for each
user who has arranged for centralized billing functionality, a
record that includes the user’s choices for how charges for
transactions are to be billed (col. 4, lines 20-27 and 43-46).
“Charges for transactions of a certain type for less than a
predetermined amount may be designated for billing to an
identified telephone account associated with the user” (col. 4,
lines 33-36). The exemplified charges for less than a
predetermined amount are charges for information services such as
providing a stock report for $0.50 (tables 1 and 2). Hence, if
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