Charging method and system

Abstract

The invention discloses a charging method and system, which relate to the technical field of communication and are invented to support large-volume data storage, enhance the performance of the system and lower the cost. The charging method comprises the following steps of: receiving a charging request which comprises user information; sending a data calling request to storage equipment according to the user information in the charging request and calling dynamic data of a user from internal storage equipment in storage equipment; when locally-stored static data consistent with static data of the user stored in physical storage equipment of the storage equipment do not exist, calling the static data of the user from the physical storage equipment; and performing charging operation according to the charging request and user data, wherein the user data comprise called dynamic data, the called static data or original locally-stored static data. The embodiment of the invention can be applied to the field of communication charging.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to a charging method and system. Background technique [0002] With the development of communication technology, the billing system in the communication system also develops rapidly and tends to be centralized. Operators have higher and higher requirements for the capacity of the billing system. The traditional two-machine billing system can no longer meet the requirements. At the same time, with the widespread use of ATAE (Advanced Telecom Application Environment) and the gradual popularization of the "cloud" concept, the original centralized billing capability needs to be distributed on multiple processing devices. In addition, With the advantages of low cost and high reliability, the clustered billing system is increasingly popular. [0003] In the prior art, the cluster billing system usually includes multiple billing devices and storage devices. The operator gen...

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[0004] In the process of realizing the above-mentioned billing, the inventor found that there are at least the following problems in the prior art: in order to ensure the performance of the billing system, all data needs to be stored in the memory storage device, which requires extremely high memory capacity, but due to The memory capacity is limited and cannot support large-capacity data storage, which directly limits the number of users supported by the cluster billing system and the performance of the system

Moreover, when the billing device handles billing, it needs to frequently access the storage device to obtain account information, user information, product order information, etc., which has extremely high requirements on the performance and bandwidth of the storage device, and the performance of the storage device directly restricts the performance of the system.

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