Data service billing method, equipment and system

Abstract

The invention discloses a charging method for data services. A rule matching and management device updates a rule base according to a service feature sent by a third-party service platform and its associated charging rules, receives a rule query request from a gateway, and queries according to the rules. The service feature in the request is matched with the corresponding charging rule in the rule base, and the charging rule is returned to the gateway, and the gateway performs the content charging of the data service; the invention also discloses a calculation method of the data service. equipment and systems.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to data traffic charging technology, in particular to a data service charging method, equipment and system. Background technique [0002] In the data business, the directional traffic unified payment service means that when individual customers access specific IP or domain names through 2G / 3G / 4G networks, the data traffic fee generated is reduced or exempted, and the group customers pay later. Since its launch, the customer scale Growth is rapid, and some provinces and industries have gradually entered the stage of large-scale expansion. [0003] Existing technical solution 1: Utilizing the existing content charging mechanism of the core network, it is possible to quickly realize the differentiated statistics of the directional traffic unified payment service traffic, and meet the needs of the current stage. In this solution, the charging point of the packet domain is the packet gateway, and the implementation mechanism is as fol...

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Problems solved by technology

[0007] Disadvantage 1: The greater the number of content charging rules, the greater the impact on the performance of the gateway (SAE-GW, GGSN), and the performance of the gateway is difficult to meet the development needs of millions of directional traffic unified payment services. Alternative solutions need to be considered in advance

[0008] Disadvantage 2: The billing rule management and configuration process is complex and inefficient, and cannot cope with the challenge of millions of billing rules. New rule management and configuration models need to be considered. Among them, the current RG / SID and service identification rules are managed uniformly across the network , configuration, and a long approval process, which is not suitable for the rapid development of Internet services; manual configuration of content charging rules on the gateway (SAE-GW, GGSN) is error-prone and inefficient

[0009] For the existing technical solution 2, the business identification and traffic statistics functions of this solution are implemented on the DPI device, there will be multiple billing points or the flow charging point is inconsistent with the traffic statistics point, when the gateway performs packet loss, flow limit, etc. During QoS operation, billing errors will be caused; in addition, the billing structure cannot be consistent with the 3GPP protocol, and the scalability is poor

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