Charging method and equipment for online charging system

Abstract

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a billing method and equipment. The online charging system judges whether the received charging request corresponding to a certain user contains the identifier of non-real-time charging; if the judgment result is not included, the current charging rate corresponding to the user is used for the charging request information and update the current account information corresponding to the user; if the judgment result is included, determine the account corresponding to the charging occurrence time of the user according to the charging occurrence time contained in the charging request information and rate information; perform accounting for the charging request with the determined rate information and update the determined account information. By adopting the present invention, the online charging system can support real-time and non-real-time charging requests, which can not only solve the problem of incorrect charging of "late" charging requests in the prior art, but also support "future" charging requests. The processing of fee requests facilitates the testing of data and software.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to a technology for billing. Background technique [0002] The Online Charging System (OCS) is one of the most important components in the 3GPP network architecture. The charging method and working method of the online charging system are completely different from the traditional offline charging system (Offline Charging System, OFCS). [0003] The offline billing system is mainly an IT-based system. At the beginning of each month, the offline billing system extracts the usage information (call bills) of all services in the previous month, performs billing calculations, and generates bills. [0004] The online charging system can realize real-time charging. Specifically, before the user uses the corresponding service, the relevant network element will send a message to the online charging system for authentication. After checking the corresponding account information,...

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Then, at 2:00 on July 13, the online billing system returned to normal, and the relevant network element sent the collected service usage information of user B after 22:00 on July 12 to the online billing system. The billing system only has the account information on July 13, but not the account information on July 12. The online billing system can only count the collected billing information of user B’s service usage information after 22:00 on July 12 to 7 This is obviously unreasonable and incorrect for the billing cycle on March 13

[0009] It can be seen that due to various reasons (relevant network elements do not have an interface to the online charging system or the online charging system is overloaded, etc.), some charging requests cannot reach the online charging system in real time at the time of occurrence, and then the online charging system If these billing requests are received at a time later than the above-mentioned occurrence time, if the existing billing method is used, it will definitely be wrong to process these "late" billing requests with the current rate information and account information Billing

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