Online charging method, communication device and communication system

Abstract

The present invention provides an online accounting method, a communication apparatus and communication system. The online accounting method includes the following steps: attribute information and a service accounting request of an access apparatus are obtained (11); an access network type corresponding to the attribute information of the access apparatus is determined according to a preestablished mapping relationship between access network types and attribute information of access apparatuses (12); the service accounting request and the determined access network type are transmitted to an online accounting system which performs online accounting according to the service accounting request and the access network type (13). In the present invention, the type of an access network which an access apparatus accesses actually is determined and transmitted to an online accounting system so that the online accounting system is capable of providing accounting to services of different access networks, and online accounting of multi-network services is realized.

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Technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the field of communication technology, in particular to an online charging method, communication equipment and communication system. Background technique [0002] In the current narrowband / broadband fixed network, Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) , Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) and other network structures usually need to deploy network elements that can implement authentication, authorization, and accounting (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting, AAA) and other functions. In terms of prepaid charging, the AAA network element itself can be used as a pre-paid service (Pre-Paid Service, referred to as PPS) to achieve prepaid; or the AAA network element can be used as a charging gateway through Charging Data Recording (CDR) ) Cooperate with the Business Operation Support System (BOSS) to achieve quasi-real-tim...

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Problems solved by technology

[0003] Most of the existing AAA network elements serve a single network, and the access servers of different networks are connected to different AAA systems; the AAA network element services of each network are not integrated with their respective networks, which may lead to the following problems: repeated construction of the AAA system; Need to operate, maintain and manage multiple sets of AAA network elements, resulting in additional work; different AAA systems cannot share the ability of OCS converged billing, and cannot share packages with voice / data services of other networks, thus affecting the promotion of full-service operations

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