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Charging method and system

A billing system and billing request technology, applied in the field of communication, can solve the problems of long billing delay, difficulty in understanding users, and inability to affect business sessions in real time, and achieve the effect of billing association and online control

Active Publication Date: 2008-10-01
HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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[0017] Depend on figure 1 It can be seen that in the IMS network, although it is possible to realize joint charging by associating the CDRs of the service layer and the bearer layer in non-real time in the offline charging system 15, the technical solution is offline charging, and the service session and charging Sessions are independent, billing cannot affect business sessions in real time
At the same time, there are still problems such as large billing delay and difficulty for users to understand

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[0060] figure 2 It is a schematic flowchart of the online charging association method provided in this embodiment. As shown in the figure, the method may include:

[0061] Step 201: The network element determines the charging context identifier of the service.

[0062] In order to enable the charging system to perform associated charging with other network elements on the charging information of the charging session of the service currently requesting charging when receiving the charging request from the network element, the network element needs to determine the charging of the service Context ID: A parameter used to uniquely identify each charging session that needs to be associated with the service.

[0063] The charging context ID of the service obtained by the network element can be determined in the following two ways:

[0064] The first method: in the case where the network element cannot generate the charging context identifier of the service, the first network elem...

Embodiment 2

[0091] image 3 Schematic diagram of a message flow for online charging using the charging context identifier of the service assigned by the charging system, such as image 3 As shown, the process includes:

[0092] 301: The first network element 32 receives a service request (Service Request) from a user.

[0093] 302: The first network element 32 sends a charging request CCR (Service ID, RSU) carrying a service service identifier Service ID and a request reservation unit RSU to the charging system 33 according to the received service request.

[0094] 303: The charging system 33 performs corresponding credit control according to the charging request. If the credit control is passed, the charging context ID of the service is assigned to the service; The first network element 32 returns a charging request response, notifying that the credit quota is insufficient and the credit control fails. After the first network element 32 receives the notification of the credit control f...

Embodiment 3

[0198] Image 6 In order to use the charging context identifier of the service generated by the network element, a message flow diagram for online charging association, for example, the online charging association method shown in this figure can be used in the existing IMS system, as shown in Image 6 As indicated, the message flow includes:

[0199] 601: The first network element 62 receives a service request (Service Request) from a user.

[0200] 602: The first network element 62 performs information interaction with other network elements of the service, obtains the charging context identifiers of other network elements for the service, and executes the charging context identifiers of the network elements of the service at the first network element. Association, generate a new ID, and use the new ID as the charging context ID (ChargingContext ID) of the service. In addition, the first network element 62 may also independently generate the charging context identif...

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The embodiment of the invention discloses a charging method and a charging system which relates to the communication field. The charging method on-line provided by the embodiment includes: the charging system receives charging requirement of operation first network element, distributes charging context sign of operation for operation, and returns charging context sign of operation to first network element; the charging system receives charging request of operation second network element, wherein, the charging requirement carries charging context sign of operation transferred from first network element to second network element, the charging system obtains each charging conversation of charging context sign with same operation according with charging context sign of operation, and obtains result associated with charging by processing operation charging information association to each charging conversation; the charging system can control charging to operation according with result associated with charging. The technical scheme provided by the invention can realize charging association, and can realize charging on-line control to operation.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the communication field, in particular to a charging method and a charging system. Background technique [0002] With the continuous enrichment of data services on the telecommunication network, Bearer Charging Function (BCF for short) has gradually become a main means for operators to control the charging of data services. BCF refers to the process in which operators conduct pricing and billing based on traffic information recorded at the network bearer layer based on services. The charging information of the data service generally includes the charging information of the service layer and the charging information of the bearer layer. Usually, the operator will adopt the method of charging association to uniformly process the charging information of different levels. E.g: [0003] Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS for short) adopts metered billing. When a user sends multimedia information, traffic billing information is als...

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IPC IPC(8): H04L12/14H04L12/26H04L29/06
Inventor 单明军李纯
Owner HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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