A method for service and billing management using connection paths

Information and communication technology (ICT) including cloud computing, point-card systems, “virtual coin” induces complicated situations concerning customer management. Especially, billing management is very critical. It is thus necessary to establish a billing-management method that can adjust to changes in environments quickly. The requirement is firstly stated that managing relationship between services, payment, and settlement so as to assure payment method, service provision routes, and payment routes. Therefore, service design method from the viewpoint of service, cash-flow, and settlement is established in order to adjust the changes in environments strategically. Then a method for managing the connection paths is proposed in order to construct relationship between services, payment, and settlement.