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Online charging method, device and system

A billing system and deduction technology, applied in the field of network communication, to achieve the effect of shortening the communication link, achieving obvious effects, and improving billing performance

Inactive Publication Date: 2013-09-25
HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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[0004] The purpose of the embodiments of the present invention is to provide an online billing method, device and system to overcome the problems of the speed and accuracy of the billing speed and accuracy of the communication link Changying Star in the above-mentioned prior art

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[0024] This embodiment provides an online charging method. Refer below figure 1 , describing the method in detail. The method includes:

[0025] Step S101: Appropriate according to the user's request and reserve an approved amount on the intermediate account;

[0026] For example, this step is performed by a billing system such as CBS or OCS. In this step, the CBS reserves a rating on the ledger of the intermediate account according to the payment priority order of the ledger in the intermediate account for the current business.

[0027] In a specific example, the intermediate account can be mirrored, that is, it includes the account book corresponding to the mirrored account of the balance management center, which can be preset in the CBS, or can be established according to the user's charging request. The specific establishment steps It may include: identifying the account book list or shared account book list that pays for the current business according to the billing re...

Embodiment 2

[0046] Refer below figure 2 , detailing the simple charging scenario of the online charging method according to the present invention. Prepaid user A has three books: book a is the default book (change this book when recharging), with a balance of 50 yuan; book b is the reward fund account of GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) This book has a balance of 10 yuan; the c account book is a special account book for the voice service and has a balance of 100 yuan. The billing process for users using GPRS services is as follows:

[0047] Step S201: User A activates and requests to use the GPRS service, and the gateway GPRS support node (GGSN, Gateway GPRS Support Node) in the SPP reports a charging request, carrying a service identification (ID) and a request amount (RSU, Requested-Service-Unit) and other billing parameters;

[0048] Step S202: CBS billing approval, calculates the billing result as 2 yuan, and at the same time recognizes that books a and b can be used to pay for...

Embodiment 3

[0061] Refer below image 3 , to illustrate the multi-service concurrent charging process of the online charging method of the present invention, when the balance of the intermediate account does not meet the needs of the business to be processed, a situation in which other account books of the same user are added to the intermediate account. User A's account book is the same as above. The billing process for the user to use the GPRS service and concurrently use the voice service is as follows:

[0062] Wherein step S301 to step S306 are identical with step S201 to step S206 respectively;

[0063] Step S307: The user requests to use the voice service, and the SCP in the SPP reports a charging request, carrying charging parameters such as service ID and RSU;

[0064] Step S308: CBS billing approval, calculates the billing result as 5 yuan, and at the same time recognizes that books a and c can pay for the belt processing business, and book c has a high priority for payment, b...

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Abstract

A method, apparatus and system for online charging are provided in the present invention. Wherein the method for online charging includes: rating according to the requested amount of a user and reserving the rating in an intermediate account; deducting the fee from the intermediate account according to the usage amount of the user; and after the user is deactivated, sending a balance changing request to the balance management center according to the fee deduction in the intermediate account. By establishing the intermediate account in the Convergence Billing System (CBS), mirroring all the dynamic information of the correlative account of the user to the intermediate account in the CBS, and performing the reservation and fee deduction in the intermediate account for all the user services which are activated at this time, the present invention reduces the access frequency for the Account Balance Management (ABM), avoids communicating with the ABM in each charging process, shortens the communication link, and thereby increases the performance of end-to-end charging.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of network communication, in particular to an online charging method, device and system. Background technique [0002] With the needs of business development and factors such as reducing investment costs, it tends to build a billing system (CBS, Convergence Billing System) that integrates prepaid and postpaid. At the same time, in order to facilitate the realization of business goals such as free switching between prepaid and postpaid, real-time shared balance between prepaid and postpaid, cross discounts and service bundling of prepaid and postpaid, or to reduce the coupling between billing and accounts and improve billing For the purpose of flexibility and scalability of the solution, operators gradually tend to build Account Balance Management Centers (ABM, Account Balance Management). [0003] In the ABM mode, CBS or OCS (Online Charge System) is responsible for approving the price, and after the cost result is c...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04W4/24H04W8/18H04L29/08G06Q20/14
CPCH04L12/1467H04L12/1403H04L12/14H04M15/00H04M15/64H04W4/24
Inventor 陆敬石
Owner HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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