Multimedia meeting service charging method and system

Abstract

The invention provides a multimedia meeting service charging method. A multimedia telephone application server generates a corresponding service request according to user equipment and sends charging request (ACR) information to a charging data function (CDF) unit; the CDF unit generates the corresponding charging data results (CDR) and sends the generated CDR to a charging gateway function (CGF) unit; and the CGF unit generates a CDR file and sends the CFR file to a charging center according to the preset rule to generate corresponding tickets. The ACR information and the CDR file contain a meeting identifying number field and an on-line meeting member quantity field. The invention also provides a multimedia meeting service charging system. The multimedia meeting service charging method and the multimedia meeting service charging system generate the CDR containing the meeting identifying number field and the on-line meeting member quantity field according to each member and enhance the precision and the accuracy of the multimedia meeting service charging.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to charging technology, in particular to a method and system for charging multimedia conference services. Background technique [0002] At present, the multimedia telephone (MMTel, Multimedia Telephone) service of the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS, Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem) includes multiple sub-services, such as: communication forwarding, communication hold, communication waiting, and multimedia conference. Corresponding to each sub-service, IMS has different charging methods, among which, multimedia conference charging (CONF Charging) involves two parts of fees: conference fee and communication fee of each participating member. [0003] The communication fees of the above-mentioned participating members generally follow the existing billing standards such as point-to-point communication, and most of the existing solutions for collecting conference fees are: simply by generating a conference start plan for the confer...

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[0003] The communication fees of the above-mentioned participating members generally follow the existing billing standards such as point-to-point communication, and most of the existing solutions for collecting conference fees are: simply by generating a conference start plan for the conference creator when the multimedia conference starts. Charging Data Record (CDR, Charging Data Record), and when the multimedia conference ends, the conference creator generates a conference ending CDR for the conference creator. The billing accuracy is very low, and the Session Initiation Protocol Application Server (SIP AS , Session Initiation Protocol Application Server) to generate all CDRs related to multimedia conferences

Today, as operators have increasingly refined billing requirements, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP, 3rd Generation Partnership Project) billing standard has clearly stipulated that the conference fee for a multimedia conference needs to refer to the duration of the multimedia conference and the participants Therefore, the existing billing methods for multimedia conferencing services cannot meet such billing accuracy requirements

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