Consumption monitoring method and system

A billing control and event technology, applied in the field of usage monitoring methods and systems, can solve problems such as inability to monitor usage, and achieve the effect of real-time and accurate management

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-01-11
ZTE CORP
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[0011] The present invention provides a usage monitoring method and system, which solves the problem in the prior art that cannot monitor usage based on events

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[0061] image 3 It is a schematic flowchart of an embodiment of a method for managing usage monitoring during session establishment provided by the present invention. image 3 Illustrated method embodiments include:

[0062] This embodiment describes a process in which the PCRF issues a usage threshold to the PCEF and performs event usage monitoring during the process of establishing an IP-CAN session by a user. The difference from the existing technical process is that the usage threshold is obtained by PCRF from SPR, where event-based subscription information is stored in SPR and sent to PCRF in the subscription response, so that PCRF and PCEF can perform event-based usage monitoring , the PCRF obtains the event usage threshold from the SPR, and sends the event usage threshold to the PCEF, and the PCEF monitors and reports the event. Each step is described as follows:

[0063] Step 301. During the UE's request to establish an IP-CAN session, the PCEF receives a request to...

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[0072] Figure 4 A schematic flowchart of an embodiment of a method for monitoring usage during session establishment provided by the present invention. Figure 4 Illustrated method embodiments include:

[0073] During the IP-CAN session, when the PCRF receives an external or internal trigger and needs to initiate the IP-CAN session modification process (including event threshold changes), the PCRF sends a request message to the PCEF, which specifies the acquisition Current event usage (explicit acquisition), PCEF reports the current event usage to PCRF after receiving the request, PCRF updates the threshold, and sends a request message to modify the updated threshold issued by the IP-CAN session. Each step is described as follows:

[0074] Step 401, PCRF receives an external or internal trigger, and needs to initiate an IP-CAN session modification process. The trigger may come from SPR, AF, PCEF or PCRF itself. For example, the event usage monitored by PCEF reaches the pre...

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[0081] Figure 5 A schematic flowchart of another method embodiment of usage monitoring during session establishment provided by the present invention. Figure 5 Illustrated method embodiments include:

[0082] During the IP-CAN session, when the PCRF receives an external or internal trigger and needs to initiate an IP-CAN session modification process (including event usage threshold change), the PCRF sends a request message to the PCEF. In the request message If there is no explicit request to obtain the current event, but the current event usage is related to the information that needs to be obtained by the request (implicit acquisition), then PCEF will report the current event usage to PCRF after receiving the request, and PCRF will refer to the usage report information to update the threshold, and then Send a request to modify the IP-CAN session, and bring the update threshold to the PCEF. Each step is described as follows:

[0083] Step 501, PCRF receives an external o...

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Abstract

The invention provides a consumption monitoring method and a system, which relate to the technical field of mobile communication policies and charging control and solve the problem that the consumption monitoring based on events can not be realized in the prior art. The method comprises the following steps that: a policy and charging rule function (PCRF) entity sends event information to a policy and charging execution function (PCEF) entity; and the PCEF executes the event monitoring on the event information and sends the event consumption obtained through the monitoring to the PCRF. The technical scheme provided by the invention can be used for monitoring the network flow rate.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of mobile communication strategy and billing control, in particular to a usage monitoring method and system. Background technique [0002] The Evolved Packet System (EPS, Evolved Packet System) of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP, 3rd Generation Partnership Project) is composed of the Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN, Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network), Mobility Management Entity (MME, Mobility Management Entity), Serving Gateway (S-GW, ServingGateway), Packet Data Network Gateway (P-GW or PDN GW, Packet Data Network Gateway), Home Subscriber Server (HSS, Home Subscriber Server), 3GPP It is composed of AAA, Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA, Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) server, policy and charging rules functional entity (PCRF, Policy and Charging Rules Function) and other supporting nodes. [0003] Picture 1-1 It is a...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04W4/24H04W8/18H04W24/00
Inventor 吴锦花芮通孙默
Owner ZTE CORP
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