Abstract: In a criterion module, variable billing information for content stored in a storage module in the communications network is formed in accordance with specified criteria. These criteria can be, for example, the age of the content, the distance of the subscriber terminal from the relevant location of location-related content, or the number of subscriber terminals to which the content is transmitted. This variable billing information is then transmitted via a communications module to a billing system. A substantial advantage of the method and the system relates to the fact that the charges for content transmitted via communications networks to subscribers can be billed according to variable criteria in a flexible way.

Abstract: The program that is running on the server continues to run without a connection to the first computer and carries out state changes. As soon as an existing connection has been interrupted, the state of the first computer is stored within the program that is running on the server. The program is continued and state changes are logged. The state changes are initiated by the server. Once a new connection has been established, the programs are synchronized.