Trusted third party synchronized billing framework using multiple authorizations by multiple owners (MAMO)

Abstract

Numerous applications are envisioned with the proliferation of mobile usage in this decade. Third party billing system for subscription is one of them. Third party billing system needs acquisition of data from both users' handset and base satiation of the service providers. Trustworthiness and Synchronization are the characteristics that need to be ensured of the third party billing system. A scheme, Multiple Authorizations by Multiple Owners (MAMO) is proposed in this work to address trustworthiness of the third party billing system. Along with a billing framework is designed to overcome synchronization problem during acquisition of data from multiple sources. MAMO is illustrated for trustworthiness of the third party billing system in this proposed work. But it could be practiced in many applications e.g. collaborative working environment of document editing for protecting alternation of data without permission of author by non-authors within a file. Although the billing framework is illustrated for synchronization of data during acquisition of data from two sources, it could be extended to synchronization among multiple sources too. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.