Group charging method, charging processor and communication system

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a group charging method, a charging processor and a communication system. The group charging method comprises: obtaining at least one of group identification and charging characteristic field of user equipment; according to at least one of the obtained group identification and charging characteristic field of the user equipment, generating a charging rule; and according to the charging rule, charging the user equipment in the group. The charging processor comprises an acquisition module, a charging rule generation module and a charging module, wherein the acquisition module is used for obtaining at least one of the group identification and the charging characteristic field of the user equipment; the charging rule generation module is used for generating the charging rule according to at least one of the obtained group identification and the charging characteristic field of the user equipment; and the charging module is used for charging the user equipment in the group according to the charging rule. The communication system comprises the above charging processor. The method, the device and the communication system provided by the invention can improve the charging efficiency to the user equipment of the group and can lower the cost of the network resource.

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technical field [0001] The embodiment of the present invention relates to the technical field of communication, and in particular to a group charging method, a charging processing device and a communication system. Background technique [0002] In order to meet the challenge of wireless broadband technology, 3GPP formulated the Long Term Evolution (Long Term Evolution, hereinafter referred to as: LTE), under the guidance of this plan, it defines the architecture of a new mobile communication network. Packet RadioService (hereinafter referred to as: GPRS) / Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (hereinafter referred to as: UMTS) is flatter and retains the packet domain, which can be called an evolved packet network (Evolved Packet System, hereinafter referred to as EPS). [0003] The core network of the wireless evolved network mainly includes three logics: Mobility Management Entity (MME for short), Serving Gateway (SGW for short), and Packet Data Network Gateway (PGW for...

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[0006] In the process of implementing the present invention, the inventor found that the prior art has at least the following technical problems: the billing method in the prior art is based on user granularity, if multiple terminals access the network, for example, in the M2M application Among them, if there are a large number of user devices under an industry user, the operator should pay attention to the billing of the entire industry user or user device group. If the existing billing method is used for billing, a large number of billing bills, resulting in low billing efficiency of operators and greatly increasing the overhead of network resources

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