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Charging method and system for international virtual private network (IVPN) prepaid service

A billing system and prepaid technology, applied in the field of communication, can solve the problems of high risk of arrears and poor real-time performance, and achieve the effect of reducing the risk of arrears

Active Publication Date: 2011-03-09
ZTE CORP
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[0004] The disadvantage of the quasi-real-time billing system is that it has poor real-time performance and can only be deducted after the communication bills are collected. For IVPN users’ prepaid services, there is a high risk of arrears

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[0050] The charging method and system for the IVPN prepaid service provided by the present invention use the OCS to perform online charging for the IVPN user's prepaid service, realize real-time charging, and control the communication status of the IVPN user in real time according to the charging situation.

[0051] refer to figure 1 , figure 2 , taking the communication request as the calling request as an example, an embodiment of the billing method for the IVPN prepaid service of the present invention is proposed, including:

[0052] In step S101, the service control point SCP of the IVPN judges whether the received communication request is a prepaid service.

[0053] IVPN's service control point (Service Control Point, SCP) receives ORREQ message from Mobile Switching Center (Mobile Switching Center, MSC) / Service Switching Point (Service Switching Point, SSP), judges whether the communication request is a prepaid service, and judges whether it needs Send a LOCREQ messag...

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The invention discloses a charging method and system for international virtual private network (IVPN) prepaid service. The method comprises the following steps: a service control point (SCP) of the IVPN service judges whether a received communication request is prepaid service; if so, the SCP sends a charging request to an on-line charging system (OCS); the OCS communicates with the SCP in real time according to the charging request to obtain the available time of communication and perform real-time time length reservation on the communication until the communication is completed or the credit line of the account to which the communication belongs is exhaust; and the OCS charges on the total time used in the communication. The invention mainly aims to provide the charging method and system for the IVPN prepaid service, thus providing on-line charging for prepaid service of IVPN subscribers and reducing owing risk.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the communication field, in particular to a charging method and system for IVPN prepaid services. Background technique [0002] Integrated Virtual Private Network (Integrated Virtual Private Network, IVPN) is an intelligent service widely developed by China Telecom for telecom users. Inter-communication can enjoy flexible tariff strategy. [0003] According to the real-time charging request sent by the service control point (Service Control Point, SCP), the online charging system (Online Charging System, OCS) combines user data and service data through the OCP (Online Charging Protocol, real-time charging protocol) interface, Perform functions such as reservation and deduction of fees for user services and reporting of billing information in real time. At present, China Telecom's prepaid service and postpaid service for IVPN users are uniformly processed by the quasi-real-time billing system. Quasi-real-time billing ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04M17/00H04W4/24
CPCH04M15/64H04W4/24H04M17/00
Inventor 单宝龙
Owner ZTE CORP
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