Method for carrying out charging control on pre-payment user

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for controlling charge, used by pre-charge user. Wherein, said method is characterized in that: the wireless application protocol WAP gateway, according to the different service requests of pre-charge user, communicates relative information with the charge system; and according to the communicated information, processes the collection and control of relative charge. The invention can effectively realize the real-time charge of pre-charge user, to distribute the charge strategy flexibly, to realize the flexible charge on multi charge rates. With said invention, the gateway can realize the two-stage buffer of charge call, to improve the charge reliability. When downloading large document, if the flux is pre-charged, but the user do not obtain relative service, the flux will be feedback, with said invention.

Description

technical field [0001] The invention relates to the communication field, in particular to a charge control for prepaid subscribers. Background technique [0002] With the development of mobile data services such as MMS service (MMS service), LCS service (location service), payment service, and WAP browsing, it is required that the billing mode can solve the billing problems of communication fees and content fees. [0003] The communication fee is that the user uses the network built by the operator, and the operator needs to charge the user for using the network. Communication fees are generally billed by traffic / time, or by monthly subscription. [0004] The content fee is due to the fact that the content provider provides the content used by the user, and the content provider needs to charge the user. This type of charging is charged by the operator. Traffic / duration and monthly subscription are charged, and the method and rate of content billing are determined by the op...

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Problems solved by technology

[0012] It can be seen from the above-mentioned technical solutions of the prior art that the billing mode of the prior art lacks sufficient flexibility, which is caused by the following reasons:

[0013] 1. Existing technologies only support some simple billing modes, such as content monthly subscription, traffic monthly subscription and other billing modes

[0014] 2. In the prior art, the RAS collects traffic at the network layer rather than the traffic at the application layer. Usually, only successful access to a specific URL constitutes a billing condition. Cases of being billed incorrectly

Therefore, the existing technology cannot guarantee the efficiency and reliability of billing

[0015] 3. In the existing technology, flow billing / content billing will be crossed, and the billing collection points of each method will be different. For example, when performing traffic billing, the traffic is collected in the RAS, and when performing content billing, usually Collected at the CP gateway, such as MMS in the process of sending, it will also consume GRPS traffic

At present, it is difficult to distinguish different services in traffic billing. If you want some services to be billed in one way, while another part of the business is billed in accordance with the business or other methods, it is very likely that billing crossover will occur.

Therefore, when there is both traffic and content billing, the existing technology cannot perform billing for different situations

[0016] 4. The existing technology cannot use different rates for billing for the traffic of different applications

[0017] 5. The existing technology cannot effectively solve the real-time billing problem of prepaid users

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