Processing method, system and device in charging process

Abstract

In the disclosed method, after receiving service request from terminal user, service net element requests online charging system to carry out authenticating charging for terminal user. Based on stored information, the online charging system ensures paying mode of terminal user, and provides the mode of terminal user to net element. Thus, net element does not need to store coincidence relation between user's number segments and paying mode of terminal user like current technique does so as to reduce memory spending of service net element. Moreover, it is also not necessary to determine whether paying mode of terminal user initiating service request is in prepaying mode or after payment so as to raise handling property of service net element, and reduce maintenance cost of charging system.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the charging field, in particular to a processing method, system and device in the charging process. Background technique [0002] The current payment methods mainly include a prepaid method and a postpaid method. The service provided by the communication system can only be used after the service fee is pre-stored. This payment method is called a pre-payment method; the service provided by the communication system is used first, and then the service fee is paid. This payment method is called a post-payment method. Charging for the prepaid mode is usually implemented through an online charging system (Online Charging System, OCS). When a terminal user requests to use a service, the online billing system estimates the amount of service that the terminal user can use for this service request based on the account balance of the terminal user, for example, the allowed call time, or the allowed general wireless packet servic...

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[0007] According to the above description, it can be seen that both the message service network element and the offline charging system need to store the complete correspondence between the user number segment and the payment method, and the storage overhead is relatively large. The 100,000-number segment only needs limited storage overhead, but for the bulk-number segment, the storage overhead is very huge, which will inevitably reduce the processing performance of the message service network element and the offline billing system, and greatly increase the billing system. maintenance cost

[0008] In addition, in the related processing of the charging process, after receiving each service request initiated by the end user, the network element of the message service needs to determine whether the payment method of the end user is prepaid or postpaid according to the stored corresponding relationship , the offline billing system also needs to determine the post-paid end user bills from the received bills according to the stored correspondence, which greatly increases the processing load of the message service network elements and the offline billing system, seriously affecting the message class Processing performance of service network elements and offline billing system

[0009] To sum up, the billing process needs to pay a very large system overhead, which makes the billing system very uneconomical.

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