Method, system and equipment for charging account balance management

Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of account management, and discloses a method and equipment for charging account balance management; the method comprises the following steps: a business charging engine receives charging request; if a user corresponding to the charging request has a plurality of charging accounts of different grades, the charging account in high priority is selected preferential to conduct rating on the charging request; reservation request is transmitted to a balance management functional entity of the corresponding charging account in high priority; the reservation result which is returned by the balance management functional entity is received, and the reservation result includes actual charging amount and interconnection instruction parameters; and whetherthe interconnected reservation is continued or not is determined by the interconnection instruction parameters. By utilizing the invention, the times of interaction between the business charging engine and the balance management functional entity can be reduced, and the business performance can be improved.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to account management technology, in particular to a billing account balance management method, system and equipment. Background technique [0002] The billing function in the traditional network is often developed vertically and parallelly based on different types of service systems such as voice, data, and multimedia content. The billing between services is independent of each other, and online billing and offline billing are processed separately using completely different mechanisms. The customer segmentation marketing strategy has to be naturally blocked by pre-paid and post-paid. [0003] OCS (Online Charging System, Online Charging System) refers to a charging system that participates in communication process control, and can solve problems such as real-time credit control of users, real-time charging of prepaid data services and value-added services. OCS has its unique accounting data management function. Correspondingly, ...

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Problems solved by technology

OCS has its unique accounting data management function. Correspondingly, other billing systems will also perform accounting data management operations on their own stored accounting data. In this way, accounting data scattered in different billing systems has the following disadvantages : It is difficult to transfer the billing methods supported by each billing system; it is impossible to realize the integration and customer-centric billing in the true sense; it increases the maintenance cost of operators

[0005] Accounting is independent from OCS to ABMF. Many business scenarios, such as VPN (Virtual Private Network, virtual private network), home network, preferential account business, etc., require frequent interaction between the service billing engine and ABMF to improve the overall performance of the business. affect

At the same time, due to frequent access between network elements, the system response time is long, which prolongs the waiting time for customers to connect

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