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Billing method and system

A billing system and billing request technology, applied in the field of billing methods and systems for services or products, can solve problems such as high data updates, confusion, and incorrect joint sales plans, and achieve the goal of ensuring correctness and reducing processing capacity required effect

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-11-14
HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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[0030] The present invention provides a method and system to solve the problems caused by the joint sales of the first service provider and the second service provider in the prior art due to the need to save and update the joint sales product and tariff policy in the MDSP. Very high processing power requirements and the possibility of incorrect joint sales proposals due to data update confusion

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[0072] Referring to Figure 5, the billing process for providing products or services is as follows:

[0073] Step 501: After receiving the user's product order request, the first service provider SP1 sends an authentication and accounting request to the service management platform and waits for its response.

[0074] When this step is executed, the processing flow of the first service provider refers to the following steps as shown in FIG. Preferential promotion activities, if the query result is yes, then further go to the joint sales database to obtain the relevant joint sales strategy, and then process the sales of the product or service of the first service provider according to the strategy and have a joint relationship with the product or service ordered by the user The joint sales strategy formed by the products or services provided by other service providers sold is added to the billing authentication request message, and the billing authentication request message is sen...

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[0107] Fig. 6 is another flow chart of billing for provision of products or services. The charging process is basically the same as that in the first embodiment, and only the different steps will be introduced below, and other steps that are the same as those in the first embodiment will be omitted.

[0108]Step 602: Send a message to the service management platform to obtain a joint sales strategy to the second service provider and the third service provider. When performing this step, the following steps need to be performed: Referring to Figure 9, after the service management platform MDSP receives the first service provider's billing authentication request message, it queries the product database for the user, service provider and purchased product, and checks its product Whether to allow joint sales and whether to comply with tariff policy, if not, return a message that joint sales is invalid to the first service provider. If so, send a message to the second service prov...

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The invention is constructed by adding united charging module to general charging system. The invention is realized through following steps: user initiates request for ordering products and services to first service provider (SP1); service provider (MDSP) queries database of product and database of joint sales to obtain strategy of joint sales (SJS) of SP1 and SP2, and sends authenticating and charging request of containing the joint sales to platform of service management (PSM). According to SJS and user's consumption log, the method calculates service charge, and sends charging request to the charging platform, and the charging platform accomplishes charging operation. The invention solves issue that in joint sales, multiple service providers up load strategy of products and costs to PSM so that it is very high requirement on processing power of PSM.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a billing method and system, in particular to a billing method and system for providing bundled sales preferential services or products. Background technique [0002] In the future 3G business, the number of service providers, business types and business volume will increase. However, the services and content that any service provider can provide are limited. Therefore, service providers need to cooperate to provide products, content and services to users, and users also hope to purchase multiple products, content and services at the same time. At the same time, operators and service providers must solve the billing problem in order to be able to operate networks and services. In particular, it is necessary to provide flexible, convenient and low-cost billing services for packaging, promotions and discounts of various services. For example, the first service provider and the second service provider jointly take promot...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04M17/00H04L12/14
Inventor 刘波李庆谢秋华侯满仓
Owner HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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