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Method and system for implementing flexible charging

A flexible and billing standard technology, applied in the field of communication, can solve the problems of inaccurate UE, lower user satisfaction, billing, etc., and achieve the effect of improving flexibility, improving user satisfaction, and having diversity

Active Publication Date: 2007-05-02
GLOBAL INNOVATION AGGREGATORS LLC
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[0008] In this case, the charging server / proxy cannot send commands in a fixed way to implement different charging standards before and after the charging standard change point to charge the UE.
This is because, as a relatively passive charging entity, the charging server / proxy has no ability to actively obtain the amount of communication data of the UE or the service quality of the communication service received by the UE, but can only determine the change point of the charging standard represented by time Whether it arrives; and, even if the billing server / proxy can actively obtain the amount of communication data of the UE or the quality of service of the communication service received by the UE, it is uncertain due to the change of the amount of communication data of the UE or the quality of service of the communication service received by the UE , so the charging server / proxy cannot accurately determine when the charging standard change point arrives, and thus cannot accurately charge the UE
[0009] It can be seen that the currently applied charging method is not flexible enough, and in the case of diverse charging standard change points, it is impossible to truly apply different charging standards before and after the charging standard change point to charge the UE, which will obviously lower user satisfaction

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[0073] In this embodiment, the payment mode of the UE is prepaid.

[0074] Referring to FIG. 2, FIG. 2 is a flow chart for implementing flexible charging according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Before executing the steps included in FIG. 2 , it is necessary to set charging standard change points in advance, so that the charging client can know under what circumstances the charging standard is changed, and then proceed to the subsequent charging process. The charging standard change point is usually set in the charging client.

[0075] The charging standard change point can be represented by time, service quality, communication data volume, etc., and multiple different charging standard change points can be set. Of course, the charging server / proxy should be set with different charging standards corresponding to different time, service quality and communication data volume, so as to ensure that the charging server / proxy can normally charge the UE. The ch...

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[0123] In this embodiment, the payment mode of the UE is post-payment.

[0124] Referring to FIG. 3, FIG. 3 is a flowchart for realizing flexible charging according to another preferred embodiment of the present invention. Before executing the steps included in FIG. 3 , it is also necessary to set the charging standard changing point in advance, and the setting method is the same as the charging standard changing point setting method described in FIG. 2 . In addition, charging standards corresponding to different time, service quality, and communication data volume should be set in the charging server / proxy, so as to ensure that the charging server / proxy can charge the UE normally.

[0125] The process shown in Figure 3 includes the following steps:

[0126] Step 301: At the beginning of the session, the UE uses the existing technology to perform user authentication, authorization and authentication operations with the charging server / proxy. After the user authentication, au...

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This invention discloses a method for realizing flexible charging, which sets a charge standard alteration point and a charge customer end against UE, when reaching to the point, the customer end collects the charge information of the UE and sends it and the standard alteration point to the charge server / proxy, when the UE finishes the communication, it collects the UE charge information and sends it to the server / proxy, which charges for the UE based on the received UE charge information, the standard alteration point and a preset charge standard. This invention also discloses a system for realizing flexible charge including a charge server / proxy and a charge customer end.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to charging technology in the communication field, in particular to a method and system for realizing flexible charging. Background technique [0002] With the development of communication technology, communication systems such as General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) system, third-generation (3G) mobile communication system, and World interoperability MicrowaveAccess (WiMAX) system have received a lot of attention and increasingly common application. When a user terminal (UE) accepts communication services provided by various communication systems, it is necessary to charge for the communication of the UE. [0003] At present, although the UE can accept communication services provided by various communication systems, the method for charging the UE communication is generally the same. When charging a UE, the access network that the UE accesses usually provides charging information to the charging server / agent for charging...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04M15/00H04Q7/20
Inventor 肖正飞
Owner GLOBAL INNOVATION AGGREGATORS LLC
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