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Centralized charging system and method for offline and online charging

An online charging system and charging system technology, applied in the field of centralized charging system, can solve the problems of missing services and income, not realizing forwarding of advanced online charging accounting data, etc.

Inactive Publication Date: 2011-05-18
ALCATEL-LUCENT USA INC
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Therefore, many service providers choose to implement offline billing data forwarding, but do not implement advanced online billing data forwarding with budget control
These service providers are sadly missing out on the services and revenue generated from online charging

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[0023] Figure 1-7 and the following description depict specific illustrative embodiments of the invention to teach those skilled in the art how to make and use the invention. In order to teach the principles of the invention, certain conventional aspects of the invention have been simplified or omitted. Those skilled in the art will appreciate variations from these embodiments that fall within the scope of the invention. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the features described below can be combined in various ways to form multiple variations of the invention. As a result, the invention is not to be limited by the specific embodiments described below, but only by the claims and their equivalents.

[0024] figure 1 A communication network 100 is shown in an exemplary embodiment of the invention. The communication network 100 includes a plurality of network elements 110-111. A network element includes any system, server or functional block for servicing voice an...

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Centralized charging systems and methods are disclosed for providing offline charging and online charging for a plurality of network elements. The centralized charging system (101) is implemented in a communication network between the network elements (110, 111) and offline / online charging systems.(120, 130). A network element interface (102) of the centralized charging system receives charging request messages from CTFs (112, 113) in the network elements. An accounting data forwarding function (104) processes charging data in the charging request messages to determine if offline or online charging is invoked for the services. For offline charging, the accounting data forwarding function generates offline accounting request messages that include the charging data. For online charging, the accounting data forwarding function generates online accounting request messages that include the charging data. The charging system interface (106) then transmits the offline accounting request messages to the offline charging system (120), and transmits the online accounting request messages to the online charging system(130).

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the field of charging in communication networks, in particular to a centralized charging system for offline charging and online charging in communication networks such as 3GPP / 3GPP2 networks. Background technique [0002] Service providers typically provide subscribers with numerous voice and / or data services using one or more wired and / or wireless communication networks. Exemplary services include cellular telephony, access to the Internet, gaming, broadcast or multicast of audio, video, and multimedia programming, among others. Mobile devices such as cellular phones, personal digital assistants, smart phones, pagers, text messaging devices, global positioning system (GPS) devices, network interface cards, notebook computers, and desktop computers can communicate over the air interface via one or more base stations. Access to services provided by communication networks. Communications between mobile devices and base ...

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IPC IPC(8): H04L12/14H04M15/00H04W4/24
CPCG06Q40/12H04L12/1403H04L12/14H04M15/00H04M15/772H04W4/24H04M15/44G06Q40/10H04M15/765H04M2215/7254H04L12/1467H04M17/00H04M15/77H04M2215/204H04M2215/0104H04L12/1457H04M2215/724H04M2215/7263
Inventor 李向阳蔡亦钢
Owner ALCATEL-LUCENT USA INC
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