656results about "Accounting/billing services" patented technology

A flow tagging technique includes tagging a data flow at a plurality of points in the data flow. For example, the data flow can be tagged at a socket and at a proxy manager API. By tagging the data flow at multiple points, it becomes possible to map network service usage activities to the appropriate initiating applications.

Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described herein related to providing information about multi-modal services to a radio access network (RAN). In examples, a first network node may receive information associated with an application layer session and a multi-modal service identifier (MMSID) that may be associated with the application layer session. The first network node may generate a policy and charging control (PCC) rule for a wireless transmit / receive unit (WTRU) using the received information. The MMSID may be used to generate an association ID. The PCC rule may be sent to a second network node. The PCC rule may include the association ID.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining whether a bandwidth deficit exists in association with communications of a device, resulting in a first determination; responsive to the first determination being that the bandwidth deficit exists, communicating with a server to determine whether the device can participate in a link aggregation group (LAG), resulting in a second determination, wherein the communicating with the server comprises sending to the server a unique identifier, and wherein the second determination is based at least in part upon the unique identifier; responsive to the second determination being that the device can participate in the LAG, identifying a source of available bandwidth; and using the unique identifier to track bandwidth provided to the device via the source of available bandwidth. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a multi-mode capability for communications by the UE within a frequency band, such that that UE may be capable of operating in any one of a half duplex time division duplex (TDD) mode and a full duplex frequency division duplex (FDD) mode within the frequency band. The UE may then transmit an indication of the multi-mode capability to a base station. The UE may receive, from the base station and responsive to the transmission of the indication, a communication format configuration that includes a partitioning between TDD mode communications and FDD mode communications for the frequency band.

Methods and apparatus for associating energy use with a data-stream passing through a device, or system or service center are provided, enabling reporting and control of energy from data centers or content delivery networks. In one embodiment, information is transmitted from a data center, comprising a number of customers associated with the data center, corresponding data rates for each of the number of customers and an energy for each of the number of customers. A total energy can be determined for all customers and for individual users. In another embodiment, an energy corresponding to an individual user within a set time interval can be determined and transmitted using the determined energy corresponding to the data center.

There is provided a management system in a mobile network, the management system comprising one or more processors arranged to: receive a request to provide an Edge Service, the request indicating a geography in which the Edge Service is to be provided; identify at least one Edge Data Network, EDN, to use to provide the requested Edge Service based on at least a part of the indicated geography; and request deployment of an Edge Application Server, EAS, in the identified EDN to provide the requested Edge Service in the specified geography.

Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to systems and methods for binding support function (BSF) capacity expansion. In some examples, a method may comprise operating a binding support function (BSF) of a mobile network, including determining whether an internet protocol (IP) address of a received message corresponds to a local IP address range, and when the IP address of the received message does not correspond to the local IP address range, accessing a first network function (NF) profile at a network repository function (NRF) to determine a second BSF corresponding to the IP address, and forwarding the received message to the second BSF.

The invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle assisted cellular network communication method and device, and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of communication management. The method comprises the following steps: randomly initializing alliance allocation of unmanned aerial vehicles, and obtaining an initial alliance grouping set; the individual income of each unmanned aerial vehicle in the current unmanned aerial vehicle alliance group is calculated; each unmanned aerial vehicle takes a non-current unmanned aerial vehicle alliance group as a target unmanned aerial vehicle alliance group, and the expected income of the unmanned aerial vehicle in the target unmanned aerial vehicle alliance group is calculated; when it is judged that the expected income meets a preset group switching condition, the unmanned aerial vehicle is allocated to a target unmanned aerial vehicle alliance group; and when no unmanned aerial vehicle meets the preset grouping switching condition, a stable unmanned aerial vehicle alliance grouping set is obtained. According to the invention, by balancing individual interests and overall interests, the stable unmanned aerial vehicle alliance grouping set is obtained, the fairness of the transaction market and the maximization of the network throughput can be considered, and the transaction efficiency is effectively improved.

The system described herein can automatically match, link, or otherwise associate electronic activities with one or more record objects. For an electronic activity that is eligible or qualifies to be matched with one or more record objects, the system can identify one or more set of rules or rule sets. Using the rule sets, the system can identify candidate record objects. The system can then rank the identified candidate record objects to select one or more record objects with which to associate the electronic activity. The system can then store an association between the electronic activity and the selected one or more record objects.

Provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are an information transmission method and apparatus, a communication device, and a storage medium. A method executed by a first core network element comprises: sending first information to a radio access network (RAN), wherein the first information is information provided by an application function (AF), and the first information is configured to indicate a time interval between end time of a first data burst and start time of a second data burst in two adjacent data bursts.

Procedures, methods, architectures, apparatuses, systems, devices, and computer program products for reporting of measurements. A wireless transmit-receive unit (WTRU) may initiate a multi-access packet data unit (MA PDU) session establishment request, incorporating energy-aware access traffic steering, switching and splitting (ATSSS) capabilities and an indication of preferred energy-based user plane optimization. The session management function (SMF) receives the request and sends a session management (SM) policy association create to the policy control function (PCF). The PCF obtains an energy estimate report for traffic flows and QoS flows, for both access legs of the MA PDU session, uses the report to generate policy and charging control (PCC) rules, and sends these rules to the SMF, which derives ATSSS rules for the WTRU and N4 rules for the user plane function (UPF), that include energy aware traffic steering policies.

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: testing a software application having instances that run on (a) a test computing environment and (b) a target computing environment, wherein each of the test computing environment and the target computing environment is provided by a mobile access edge computing (MEC) environment, wherein the testing includes varying a software application performance impacting parameter value impacting performance of an instance of the software application running on the test computing environment, and examining metrics data resulting from the varying the software application performance impacting parameter value; providing, in dependence on the metrics data, an action decision to adjust a software application performance impacting parameter value impacting performance of a software application instance of the software application running on the target computing environment; and adjusting the software application performance impacting parameter value impacting performance of the software application instance of the software application running on the target computing in accordance with the action decision.

Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for policy and charging control for a computing power network. In one aspect, a first apparatus receives, from a second apparatus or a third apparatus, a first request for a policy for management of a computing service. The first apparatus generates the policy for management of the computing service based at least on subscription information related to a consumer of the computing service. In turn, the first apparatus transmits, to the second apparatus or the third apparatus, the policy for management of the computing service.

A user equipment (UE) device may include a processor configured to receive a request associated with a user equipment (UE) device and obtain subscription information associated with the UE device from a subscription management device, wherein the subscription information includes a charging function (CHF) group identifier associated with the UE device, in response to receiving the request. The processor may be further configured to select a CHF for the UE device based on the CHF group identifier and send a message associated with the request to the selected CHF.

The present application relates to the technical field of mobile communications. Provided are a charging method, an apparatus, an electronic device, a storage medium and a program product. The method comprises: acquiring energy saving information sent by an MnS provider entity; on the basis of the energy saving information, sending a charging data request to a CHF entity, the CHF entity being used for creating a charging data record on the basis of the charging data request; and acquiring the charging data record returned by the CHF entity. In the embodiments of the present application, a CEF entity can acquire energy saving information by means of the MnS provider entity, and, on the basis of the energy saving information, initiate a charging data request to the CHF entity so as to acquire a charging data record. Thus, the present application can implement standardized charging for energy saving, thereby improving the accuracy and reliability of charging for energy saving.

The invention provides a user service charging method, a network element and related equipment, and relates to the technical field of communication. The method comprises: receiving user traffic data sent by a user plane network element, the user traffic data being obtained by the user plane network element counting a first service message, the first service message comprising a first IPv6-based segment routing SRv6 segment list; when the charging triggering condition is met, a charging data request is sent to a charging network element through a charging triggering network element, the charging triggering network element is arranged in a session management network element, and the charging data request comprises user flow data. Through the technical means, the problem that the differentiated service based on the SRv6 path cannot be charged in the related technology is solved.

The invention discloses a layered relay cost flow method for resource scheduling of the Internet of Vehicles in a local communication traffic burst, and the method comprises the steps: enabling a road side unit to collect the target communication rate, time delay and priority parameters of an access vehicle, building an intra-domain vehicle communication quality demand representation matrix, and calculating the intra-domain comprehensive communication demand target amount; judging a local communication traffic burst state through a congestion early warning threshold value, and initiating a resource rescheduling request to a central cloud; a fast dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithm is constructed, and the central cloud reallocates a bearing budget for the administered road side unit by using the algorithm and issues the bearing budget; the road side unit generates a vehicle feasible transmission path set by adopting a transmission path generation algorithm oriented to link stability, and constructs a source point-vehicle-relay vehicle-resource block-sink layered relay cost flow network diagram; and constructing an enhanced dynamic cost flow algorithm under the constraint of an upper-layer central cloud allocation bearing budget, and traversing the layered relay cost flow network diagram to obtain a final allocation result of each vehicle wireless resource block under the road side unit.

The invention discloses a charging method and equipment. In the method, a first control node receives a first request for requesting to allocate resources; the first control node obtains a charging policy and charging information, the charging policy comprises a charging policy corresponding to at least one charging type, the charging information comprises charging information corresponding to at least one charging type, and the charging type comprises one or more of the following types: a function type, a value type, a resource type and a scenario type; and the first control node sends the charging strategy and the charging information to at least one execution node, so that the at least one execution node reports resource use information according to the charging strategy and the charging information, and the at least one execution node is an execution node which is allocated by the first control node and used for providing resources. According to the method, a single charging strategy and charging information are not adopted any more, different charging strategies and charging information can be adopted for different charging types, and diversified charging requirements of different services can be met.

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of communications. Provided are a computing and network service processing method and a related device. The method comprises: on the basis of a computing and network service request, determining a computing and network service data volume, a computing and network service priority, a terminal-side computing delay range and a local round-trip delay; interacting with another network element to determine a computing power QoS, so as to determine a PCC rule; and finally deciding a computing and network QoS policy and a PFCP rule. By means of interaction, a computing and network QoS indicator required by a computing and network service is pre-allocated, resources required by a network and computing power are allocated, and collaborative scheduling is performed on computing power resources and network resources, so as to achieve the objective of computing and network integration.

Disclosed in the present application are a target information acquisition method and sending method and apparatuses, a device, and a storage medium, relating to the field of mobile communication. The method comprises: sending an information acquisition request to a terminal device, the information acquisition request being used for instructing the terminal device to send target information; receiving the target information sent by the terminal device; and sending the target information to a management device of the terminal device, the management device being used for implementing authentication or authorisation of the terminal device on the basis of the target information. In the solution provided in the embodiments of the present application, the terminal device sends the target information used for implementing authentication or authorisation on a premise that a network device sends an information acquisition request to the terminal device, avoiding the problem of repeat sending due to the terminal device actively sending target information, and thereby reducing resource waste and increasing the rate of utilisation of resources.

The invention discloses a method, a device and equipment for determining real-time data traffic consumption and a medium. The method comprises the following steps: determining starting time and first ending time of traffic statistics; obtaining a first statistical flow between the starting time and the first ending time and a second statistical flow of the last time; and calculating a difference value between the first statistical flow and the second statistical flow to obtain real-time data flow consumption of the user identification card. According to the scheme, the constructed time interval for traffic statistics is the fixed starting time and the ending time after the current time of the system, so that the real-time data traffic consumption in the specified time period covers the traffic statistical data of the system at the current moment through the difference value of the two times of statistics of the traffic; the problem of delayed updating in the system in a traditional mode is avoided, so that the obtained real-time data traffic consumption is an almost real-time traffic result, and the requirement of real-time scene monitoring is met.

We propose a display device that works in conjunction with a content server using virtual accounts. [Solution] The system includes a user input interface that receives login requests for a specific account for viewing content from a remote control device, a processor that acquires screen information for viewing content based on the login request for the specific account, and a display configured to display a specific screen according to the acquired screen information when logging in with the specific account. When the processor determines that it has attempted to log in for the first time, the display device, in conjunction with the control server, receives a response indicating that the interaction with the specific content server has been successfully performed by logging in with the generated virtual account.

A method performed by a UPF for processing sponsored data in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a NEF, a subscription request message for subscribing to a UPF event exposure service based on the NEF receiving a charging generation request from an AF providing a sponsored data service, performing, based on information included in the subscription request message, a sponsored charging monitoring operation on the sponsored data provided to a UE from the AF, and transmitting, based on the sponsored charging monitoring operation, a usage report message to a CHF for the sponsored data, the CHF being in charge of charging processing.

A communication method for artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML) operation includes transmitting, by a network exposure function (NEF) to a charging function (CHF), a charging data request message comprising at least one information element associated with a charging reporting for AI / ML operation and allowing and / or triggering the CHF to identify the at least one information element associated with the charging reporting for AI / ML operation based on the charging data request message.

The present disclosure relates to a method of identifying and reporting for muting events in a core network by a processor(202). Further, the method includes obtaining a record corresponding to a timestamp flow creation and a session identification from a SMF module(420) for each of the muting event. Further, the method includes obtaining a cell identification of each UE(102) participating in the voice call from the SMF module(420). Further, the method includes obtaining party details from an IMS for each identified muting event. Further, the method includes determining muting duration, party KPIs with muting times for each identified muting event. Further, the method includes generating a report comprising a region summary and a user level summary based on the timestamp flow creation, the one or more muting timestamps, the session identification, the cell identification and the determination of the muting duration, and the party KPIs.

There is provided a method of managing wireless data traffic for a wireless end-user device. The method includes associating the wireless end-user device with a wireless data service that defines a set of one or more permitted Internet access destinations, receiving, at a network intermediary configured to mediate Internet access for the wireless end-user device, a request from the wireless end-user device to access data associated with a first Internet access destination of the set of one or more permitted Internet access destinations, providing, via the network intermediary, the wireless end-user device with access to the first Internet access destination in response to the request, measuring data traffic exchanged between the wireless end-user device and the network intermediary in connection with the access to the first Internet access destination, and classifying the measured data traffic as being associated with the first one of the first Internet access destinations.