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Method and apparatus for resource tracking and charging at end nodes

A resource counting and resource technology, applied in the field of communication systems, to achieve the effect of high system cost

Active Publication Date: 2015-11-25
QUALCOMM INC
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Cumulative system cost information is typically generated at the management level, which, while sufficient for long-term capacity calculations and even for approximate selection of charging levels for data unit This is insufficient for the dynamic cost of an end system

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[0024] figure 1 Exemplary system 100 is shown comprising access node 110 directly connected to communication devices 101 and 102 via access communication link 150 . The access link 150 is subdivided into multiple time slots of different types, where, for example, a time slot can be defined by one or more CDMA code values, or one or more OFDM tones, or simply, a time slot can be is the time division of a single frequency carrier. Each slot may have a single fixed length in time, may have different lengths in time, or may even have a variable length in time. In particular, the access link 150 comprises a control signal 151 in a broadcast time slot which is sent to the communication devices 101, 102 and which is used to manage the communication link and in particular to Different types of time slots are assigned to transmit data units on link 150 . Access link 150 also includes unicast, broadcast, and multicast traffic slot types that are used to transmit data units to or from...

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Utilization of resources used to provide a service, and / or costs associated with providing system resources for a service, are tracked in a system where the available resources vary depending on a variety of conditions including resource utilization by other users. The methods are well suited for systems such as mobile communications systems, where the amount of resources and / or costs to a system of providing a service are dynamic and can change on a relatively rapid time scale. Resource utilization is tracked on a per subscriber basis. Service charges can be determined as a function of both the amount of resources consumed and the amount of data delivered, with the amount of resources being used to deliver a fixed amount of data units varying as a function of environmental and / or other conditions. Service charges are sometimes determined as a function of the impact of providing the service to a first user on other system users.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates generally to the field of communication systems, and more particularly to methods and apparatus for tracking resource utilization for providing a service and / or costs associated with providing system resources for a service, and optionally, The methods and apparatus generate billing and / or billing information based on tracked resource utilization and / or cost information. Background technique [0002] Typically, a communication link used to transmit packets has a fixed amount of a single resource (eg, bandwidth) available to share among multiple contending packet streams. These packet streams go to or from one or more end-systems, which are connected to the access routers via the aforementioned communication links. Packets are sent on the communication link in multiple link layer frames, which can be considered as different types of time slots on the communication link. Typically, the communication link and the time slots...

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IPC IPC(8): G06Q30/00G06F17/30H04W4/24
CPCH04M15/12G06Q20/102G06Q30/04G06Q40/12G06Q50/06H04L12/14H04L12/1403H04M15/28H04M15/41H04M15/43H04M15/825H04M15/83H04M15/84H04M15/88H04M2215/0116H04M2215/0164H04M2215/2026H04M2215/22H04M2215/32H04M2215/7853H04M2215/81H04M2215/8129H04W4/24H04W4/26H04M15/00
Inventor 艾伦·奥尼尔
Owner QUALCOMM INC
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