Method, system and apparatus realizing off-line charging control

A charging control, offline technology, applied in metering/billing/billing devices, monitoring/monitoring/testing arrangements, data exchange details, etc., can solve problems such as inability to solve, difficult to implement, and billing

Active Publication Date: 2009-02-11
HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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[0044] It can be seen that although the existing PCC architecture has a certain decision-making function, it cannot solve the problem in the prior art that the GGSN cannot perform billing for different users, different services, and different time periods when the GGSN completes the decision-making.
Because PCRF cannot effectively control PCEF according to charging needs, that is, it cannot trigger PCEF to generate intermediate bills at a specific moment
Figure 4 Although the process shown involves the triggering conditions of the intermediate bills, these triggering conditions are manually configured, and this manual configuration can only configure some thick-lined triggering conditions, such as configuring 22 during a telephone call. The period between 23 o'clock and 23 o'clock is the preferential period, but if you want to customize different billing rules for different users, for example, in the above-mentioned call, different discount methods are used for different users during the time period from 22 to 23 o'clock. In this situation, it is obviously difficult to implement individual requirements configuration for all users in the network only by manual means.

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[0118] Figure 6 It is a flow chart of the first preferred embodiment of the method of the present invention. Assuming that the user in this embodiment has signed a telephone service, there will be different charging standards in different time periods of a day. For example, the call charge price before 22:00 is a, the call charge price is b during the preferential period between 22:00 and 23:00, and the call charge price is c after 23:00. Then, PCRF needs to instruct PCEF to generate intermediate bills at the two time points of "22:00" and "23:00", so as to distinguish the bills of different prices, so as to facilitate subsequent summary settlement. Such as Figure 6 As shown, this embodiment includes the following steps:

[0119] Step 601: The operator configures a charging policy.

[0120] The offline charging policy in this embodiment refers to scenarios and related charging parameters configured by operators according to their own needs for offline charging, in additi...

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[0135] Figure 7 It is a flowchart of the second preferred embodiment of the method of the present invention. This embodiment provides different control over the generation speed of the dialogue form in different scenarios. Assuming that the operator pre-configures that when the bandwidth is less than 5Mbps, a bill is generated every a minute, and when it is greater than 5Mbps, a bill is generated every b minutes; as far as this embodiment is concerned, the bandwidth is less than 5Mbps, which means that the quality of service is lower than that greater than In the case of 5Mbps, the service quality provided by the operator is different, which means that the billing price is different; in the case of high-value billing, if the equipment fails, it will cause greater losses to the operator. Therefore, dialogue is required. Control the generation speed of bills, that is, speed up the generation of bills in the case of high value. Such as Figure 7 As shown, this embodiment incl...

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[0150] Assume that in this embodiment, the user simultaneously performs different services on the same bearer, and different services implement different charging standards. For example, if a user makes a video call while watching video TV, the charging standard for video TV is 0.01 yuan per minute, and the standard for video calling is 0.15 yuan per minute. The same is that it is also necessary to perform Figure 7 The process shown in steps 701 to 704, but the difference is that in the subsequent steps, the PCRF needs to determine the offline charging policy corresponding to each service, and formulate the corresponding PCC rules, and send them to the PCEF; correspondingly, the PCEF according to different PCC Rules, perform offline billing respectively. Since the problem of intermediate bills is not involved in this embodiment, it corresponds to Figure 7 Therefore, in this embodiment, there is no need to execute the subsequent step of generating an intermediate bill. Cer...

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Abstract

The inventive embodiment discloses a method for achieving offline charging control. The method comprises the following steps: determining that offline charging is required for a current service by a policy control and charging rule function entity (PCRF) according to acquired charging information, making policy control and charging (PCC) rules carrying intermediate call list trigger parameters; transmitting the PCC rules to a policy and charging execution entity (PCEF) by the PCRF; and carrying out offline charging of the service by the PCEF according to the PCC rules, and generating an intermediate call list for the charging according to the intermediate call list trigger parameters. The inventive embodiment can simultaneous disclose the system and an apparatus for achieving offline charging control. The method, the system and the apparatus can be used for achieving offline charging for different scenes.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to billing technology, in particular to a method, system and equipment for realizing off-line billing control. Background technique [0002] In the process of the evolution of the communication network to the full Internet Protocol (IP) network, end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) issues need to be resolved in order to provide services that satisfy customers. IP networks can provide various services, such as multimedia calls, file downloads, and web page browsing. Different services have different requirements for QoS, including bandwidth, delay, and packet loss rate, and the requirements for billing are also different. Different, for example, online charging or offline charging can be adopted, and charging can be based on traffic or time. [0003] Under the background of the existing general packet radio service (GPRS) as the bearer technology, offline charging mainly includes two parts, namely, decision-making and execution. T...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04L12/14H04M3/24
Inventor 魏伟华谭仕勇王玮
Owner HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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