Method for counting MMS flow quantity

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for the multimedia message flow statistics, the steps comprises: a message of a transmitting end is analyzed to confirm whether the message is the wireless application protocol WAP message or not; when the message is confirmed to be the multimedia message according to the type of the carrying content of a hyper text transport protocol HTTP head or a wireless session protocol WSP head of the message, the method carries out the analysis according to the WAP protocol and confirms the service identification which is matching with the multimedia message; and the multimedia message flow which is corresponding to the matching service identification is carried out the statistics. The method filters the multimedia message flow at a billing gateway, so an operator can really carry out the billing according to the number of the multimedia messages, thus avoiding the repeated billing.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a billing method, in particular to a method for counting multimedia message traffic in a wireless data communication system. Background technique [0002] The MMS service uses the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP, Wireless Application Protocol) as a carrier to transmit information in various multimedia formats including text, images, sounds, and data through the GSM data network. MMS can be used not only as a wireless network information communication tool, but also as an Internet access tool. As a wireless network communication tool, it adds multimedia elements to SMS, and has a larger information capacity; as an Internet access tool, its advantage lies in accessing and updating specific Internet resources anytime, anywhere, and can become a special Internet information sending / receiving channels. [0003] MMS is now a new growth point for value-added services. Existing applications include: point-to-point applications, in...

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Problems solved by technology

[0004] In the face of many applications, the existing MMS billing methods are divided into two types: billing by item and billing by GPRS traffic. Now the main billing method adopted by operators is billing by item. When the billing gateway generates traffic, the corresponding traffic bill is generated when passing through the billing gateway, which leads to the problem of repeated billing

The existing method for dealing with repeated billing is: the operator estimates the user's usage traffic when issuing the call bill at the end of the month, and returns a certain MMS fee to the user according to the estimate, but this estimate is very inaccurate, resulting in a MMS billing is very inaccurate

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