Grouping service charging method

Abstract

The invention discloses a kind of group-business-billing method, which includes the following steps: After receiving the business request from the user's terminal to the applied server, GGSN transmit it to the said applied server; the said GGSN obtains the billing rules; the said billing rules at least include business data flowing through filter information; the said GGSN distinguishes the business data flowing filter information directed to the user's data flow according to the billing rules and applies the corresponding billing rules to work out the bill in the user's data flow of business data flowing filter information in conformity with the billing rules, so that the raw billing information is produced; the said GGSN will transmit the said raw billing information to the billing gateway.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to communication technology, in particular to a charging method for packet services. Background technique [0002] With the gradual widespread application of mobile packet data services, how to accurately and reasonably charge mobile packet data services has become a technical issue that mobile operators and the industry generally pay attention to. [0003] At present, the GPRS (General Packet Radio Service, General Packet Radio Service) network receives more and more attention, and its application is becoming more and more popular. [0004] In the prior art, the billing of GPRS network is aimed at APN (Access Point Name, access point name) and PDP Context (Packet Data Protocol context, packet data protocol content), by GPRS service node SGSN (Serving GPRS Support Node, serving GPRS support node) and GGSN (Gateway GPRS Support Node, gateway GPRS support node) produce original charging record, and described original charging recor...

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Problems solved by technology

[0006] Therefore, there are some deficiencies in the prior art when charging for packet services: the current GPRS network can only recognize the level of APN and PDP Context for user data streams, but in reality, since users may have multiple Parallel data services, and multiple parallel service flows are likely to be carried by the same PDP Context, and different services may adopt different charging methods (for example, users may simultaneously perform streaming media services and multimedia message services, two services At the same time, it is carried in the same APN and PDP Context, but the charging rules are different. For example, the streaming media service is charged according to the user data flow or time, and the multimedia message service is charged according to the event (such as sending or receiving a message).

Obviously, the existing technology is difficult to meet this requirement: that is, it is impossible to implement different charging methods for multiple services carried in the same APN and PDP Context, such as charging according to events, charging according to traffic, and charging according to time. and implement different rates, etc.

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