Pre-payment business implementing method and its network and network element

A technology of service network elements and implementation methods, which is applied in the field of communication, can solve problems such as large time delays, achieve the effect of reducing time delays and improving user satisfaction

CN101110878AInactive Publication Date: 2008-01-23HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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CN · China
Patent Type
Applications(China)
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Publication Date
2008-01-23
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Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

The present invention discloses a method for realizing pre-charging service and pre-charging service network element and the network, which comprises that the pre-charging service network element establishes a service connection for an user according to the call request originated by the user; the pre-charging service network element and a charging platform perform the charging pre-deducting of the user; according to the charging pre-deducting results, the service connection is maintained or terminated. The present invention provides a pre-charging method for avoiding extending service connection and establishing time delay. The pre-charging method can be applied to all pre-charging services, and because the charging pre-deducting of the user and the service connection establishing are processed in parallel, the time delay established by the user service is greatly reduced, the influence of the pre-charging flow on the service establishing can be ignored, and the user satisfaction is improved.
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technical field

[0001] The present invention relates to the communication field, in particular to a prepaid service realization method, a prepaid service network element and a network. Background technique

[0002] With the development of communication technology, traditional communication methods and services have been greatly developed, and the prepaid service has become a relatively common communication service. As shown in Figure 1, in the existing prepaid solution, when the App Server (application server) receives a call / service request initiation, it first withholds the fee from the billing platform, and if successful, the App Server continues the subsequent business logic , and monitor business expenses; when the current withholding fee is used up, confirm the deduction with the billing platform, and at the same time withhold a certain fee; when the prepaid account on the billing platform is used up, the withholding will fail , at this time the App Server will cut of...

Examples

example 1

[0105] Example 1. The network element of the prepaid service is an application server, and the fee is successfully withheld after the call is established:

[0106] As shown in Figure 7, when the call is established, the user balance is sufficient to meet the prepaid process of the call fee, including the following steps:

[0107] S701. The user initiates a call request to the application server.

[0108] S702. The application server processes the call request of the user immediately, and processes it according to the normal post-paid business process. At the same time, start another parallel task to perform the operation of withholding expenses.

[0109] S703. The application server sends a fee withholding request to the charging platform according to the characteristics of the service, such as "5-minute PoC service fee" or "0.8 yuan".

[0110] S704. After the fee withholding is performed by the billing platform, a result of successful fee withholding is returned to the appl...

example 2

[0122] Example 2. The processing flow of the withholding failure when the call is established:

[0123] As shown in Figure 8, the network element of the prepaid service is the application server, and the prepayment process fails to be withheld for the first time when the call is established. It can be seen from the figure that it includes the following steps:

[0124] S801. The user initiates a call request to the application server.

[0125] S802. The application server immediately processes the user's call request, processes it according to the normal post-payment business process, and starts another parallel task at the same time to perform the fee withholding operation.

[0126] S803. The application server sends a fee withholding request to the charging platform according to the characteristics of the service, such as "5-minute PoC service fee" or "0.8 yuan".

[0127] S804. The billing platform performs fee withholding. In this example, the fee withholding fails, and ret...

example 3

[0136] Example 3. Application process of prepayment in PoC service:

[0137] As shown in Figure 9, it is the application of the solution of the present invention in the PoC business. Example 3 is a successful process of withholding fees, including the following steps:

[0138] S901. The user initiates a call request to the PoC server.

[0139] S902. The PoC server immediately processes the user's call request, and processes it according to a normal post-paid business process. At the same time, another parallel task is started to perform the fee reservation operation.

[0140] S903. The PoC server sends a fee withholding request to the charging platform according to the characteristics of the service.

[0141] S904. After the fee withholding is performed by the charging platform, a result of successful fee withholding is returned to the PoC server.

[0142] S905. After receiving the message that the fee withholding is successful, the PoC server does not interrupt the normal ...