36 results about "Convergent charging" patented technology

A telecommunication service charging system and method include configuring merge charging system in telecommunication service charging system; merge charging system obtaining charging data recording from switched service equipment, directly or indirectly making interaction with switched service equipment, combining off line charging and on-line charging mode, or prepaid and after payment mode to make merge charging. Said merge charging system can be based same set of user, account, and expenses data; said switched service equipment can be circuit domain, grouping domain or IP multimedia subsystem domain switched service equipment.

The invention relates to the technical field of data business, in particular to a data business platform convergent charging method, which comprises the following steps: (1) acquiring original telephone lists, and pretreating and treating the lists by one-time pricing; (2) extracting one piece of telephone list pricing request and related set menu list ordered by users; (3) extracting a tariff discount plan related to the telephone list from an ordered set menu; (4) reading all tariff configuration definitions contained in the tariff discount plan and sorting the definitions according to priority; (5) taking one tariff configuration definition to judge whether the telephone list meets conditions or condition groups corresponding to the tariff configuration definition, if yes, performing discount pricing; and (6) after processing all ordered set menus, summarizing and comparing all discount pricing results, and recording the telephone list charge according to the minimum tariff principle. The method contributes to discount pricing treatment on complex business flows to realize complex tariff and discount plans.

A convergent charged particle beam apparatus includes an electron beam system which emits a converged electron beam, a vacuum chamber which is connected to the electron beam system, and a stage which mounts a specimen and moves at least in one direction inside of the vacuum chamber. An electron beam image observation unit observes an electron beam image of a surface of the specimen. A height detector optically detects a height of the specimen mounted on the stage by illuminating the surface of said specimen with light and by detecting reflected light of the illumination reflected from the surface of the specimen, and a controller controls a focus position of the electron beam in accordance with an output from the height detector while the stage is moving at least in one direction.

The invention discloses a convergent charging method of integrated services under convergent networks and a rule engine device. The method includes the steps that charging parameters of the integrated services under all the convergent networks on an application layer are set by a setting module in advance according to a charging rule; the received integrated services are charged by a charging module according to the charging parameters, and the actual expenses of the integrated services are obtained. According to the convergent charging method, services can be bound across the networks of telecom operators, broadcast television operators, E-business operators and other operators according to the preset charging parameters of the integrated services under the convergent networks, and particularly, digital household services can be charged across the networks. Moreover, the calculation method is easy and convenient to perform, and development of the integrated services under the convergent networks is promoted to a certain extent.

The embodiment of the invention discloses an online payment method and device, and relates to the technical field of communications. The problems that the processing procedure is complex and the system maintenance cost and difficulty are increased when a user needs to switch between two payment modes can be solved. The method comprises the following steps: a convergent billing unit receiving a consumption request of the user; computing the expense of the user according to user billing information and consumption details; sending a balance deduction request to a financial data service unit; the financial data service unit acquiring the expense of the user; deducting the actual balance of the user when the user is the real-time payment user; accumulating the expense of the user to the current simulated deduction amount when the user is not the real-time payment user and the current moment does not belong to the charge-off time of the former payment day; and deducting the actual balance of the user according to the current simulated deduction amount when the user is not the real-time payment user and the current payment day of the user is ended. The online payment method is suitable for a charging device.

The invention discloses a billing method in an IP multimedia subsystem network, which comprises the following steps: 1. When the billing trigger condition is satisfied, a combined network element constructs a combined billing information message, and the combined billing The information message is sent to the billing data processing function; 2. The billing data processing function constructs the billing bills corresponding to each network element included in the unified network element according to the received unified billing information message or The integrated billing bill corresponding to the integrated network element. The technical solution of the present invention provides a converged charging method in the IP multimedia subsystem network, which simplifies the charging processing logic, so that when the network elements of the IP multimedia subsystem network control layer are integrated, the network elements and charging data Traffic between processing functions is greatly reduced.

The invention discloses a multi-network element fusion charging method, a multi-network element fusion charging system and a charging gateway function. The method comprises that: after receiving call charging stopping requests from a plurality of related network elements in a call process, the charging gateway function generates multi-network element fusion charging data records related to the call process and transmits the multi-network element fusion charging data records to a billing domain; and the billing domain charges the call process according to the multi-network element fusion charging data records. In the scheme, in the process of participating in a call by a plurality of network elements of an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS), the charging gateway function (CGF) performs charging data record fusion on the plurality of network elements related to the call process and uniformly transmits the multi-network element fusion charging data records to the billing domain to save signaling traffic before the CGF and the billing domain (BD), reduce complexity in the interaction of the network elements of the subsystem and simultaneously avoid the billing domain associating call detail record (CDR) lists of independent network elements again to reduce the complexity of the billing domain.

The invention discloses a message detection and shunt method in convergent billing, and a tandem proxy device. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a message sent by a GGSN; marking the time of the received message and the state of the message, and storing the message in a database; processing the message to obtain a processing result of the message; when the time interval between the time of obtaining the processing time and the marking time is smaller than or equal to a preset threshold, sending the message to a convergent billing system for billing and pricing; when the time interval between the time of obtaining the processing time and the marking time is larger than the preset threshold, extracting the marking state of the message from the database; and when the marking state indicates that the message is not processed, forwarding the message to a drop memory library, singly processing the message in the drop memory library, and sending the message to the convergent billing system for billing and pricing.

The invention discloses a business processing method and device. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a transfer service request of a terminal user by a convergent billing system CBS, and querying whether the terminal user has an online billing session; if the terminal user has the online billing session, interrupting the online billing session; billing the online billing session, and simultaneously pausing to process an online billing service request of the terminal user; and completing a transfer operation of the terminal user according to the transfer service request, and restarting to process the online billing service request of the terminal user. The business processing method and device in the scheme disclosed by the invention are used for solving the problem in the prior art that a user transfer service process is complicated and is inconvenient to realize.

The invention relates to communication charge, provides a transmitting, receiving and alternating method fused with charging files aiming at defects that the provider has to distribute special charging server resource to take charge of alternation of each charging file. The transmitting method fused with charging files comprises: receiving items of call tickets; generating charging files and transmitting according to the items of the call tickets; the next step furthermore comprises: generating operation labels according to the operation of the items of the call tickets; generating the charging files and transmitting according to the items of the call tickets and operating labels. The invention also provides a receiving and alternating method of fused charging files and a fusion charge server. Through adding operating labels in the charging files, ticket writings of each operation are transmitted through fusion charge files in consolidation forms, thereby taking charge of the alternation of each charging files in all forms with the fusion charge server, greatly reducing waste of resource.

The invention discloses a multi-service fusion charging method and system. The method comprises the following steps: a server carries out multi-service package configuration on different binding relationships of all services, obtains and then stores in a database all service packages and the corresponding package charging information; when the client accesses to a network, a web device identifies and analyzes the service used by a client to obtain the corresponding service package; the web device sends the service package to the server, the server finds the corresponding package charging information in the database according to the service package, and then charges according to the package charging information. Through the multi-service package configuration, the differential charging on the client internet access is achieved, and different charging requirements on time, region, networking, bandwidth, content and the like, are met.

The invention discloses a billing method and a billing system. The billing method comprises the following steps: when a user subscribes a product, a data preparation device synchronizes the subscription information containing validation time and invalidation time of the product to a fusion billing device; the fusion billing device performs the rating/pricing process corresponding to a user's call bill within the validation and invalidation time range according to the subscription information; and a real-time accounting device generates a real-time bill according to the result of the rating/pricing process. The inventive billing method and billing system can synchronize the related data in advance by setting the validation/invalidation time of the subscription information, so that the billing process doesn't need to be stopped when a bill is rendered at the end of month, as a result, the expense can be added in time after the user makes a call during the bill rendering period, the user can inquire about the expense, the user's sensation isn't affected and the risk of overdue bill is reduced.

The present invention discloses a method for billing on-line, a service control point, a convergent billing point and a system thereof, and belongs to the field of communication. The method comprises the following steps: receiving the authentication billing request information transmitted by the service control point, wherein the authentication billing request information is packed with the Diameter protocol; unpacking the authentication charging request information according to the Diameter protocol, and executing authentication billing according to the information carried in the unpacked information. The service control point comprises a receiving module, a packing module and a transmitting module. The convergent billing point comprises an information receiving module, an unpacking module and an authentication billing module. The system comprises a service node, a service control point and a convergent billing point. The invention receives the authorization billing request information which is packed by the Diameter protocol through the convergent billing point CBP in the pre-charging short message service. The CBP executes authorization billing after unpacking therefore the convergent billing across service can be realized and the flexibility of billing on-line is increased.

The invention provides a fusion charging method and device, which realize request of online charging and offline charging based on an online and offline fusion charging session, and simplify the charging architecture. The method comprises the following steps: a session management function determines charging types of a first data stream and a second data stream, wherein the charging types are online charging or offline charging; The session management function performs session management according to the charging types of the first data stream and the second data stream; sending a first message to a charging server through an online and offline fusion charging session, wherein the first message comprises a first online charging request of the first data flow, or the first message comprisesa first offline charging request of the second data flow, or the first message comprises a first online charging request of the first data flow and a first offline charging request of the second dataflow, and the online-offline fusion charging session is used for sending the first online charging request and the first offline charging request.

Embodiments of the invention provide a call ticket processing method and device, relate to the technical field of billing, and aim to save a call ticket storage space and ensure consistency of call ticket auditing. The method specifically comprises the following steps: a data adaptation network element obtains m first call ticket files from a convergent billing point, wherein m is a positive integer, and each first call ticket file comprises at least one call ticket; the data adaptation network element combines a plurality of bile tickets that meet a preset condition and that are in the m first call ticket files into a combined call ticket, so as to generate n combined call ticket files, wherein n is a positive integer, and the combined call ticket files are in one-to-one correspondence with the combined call tickets; the data adaptation network element generates n audit files based on the m first call ticket files and the n combined call ticket files, wherein the audit files are usedby an accounting treatment network element in auditing call tickets; and the data adaptation network element sends call ticket information to the accounting treatment network element, wherein the callticket information comprises the n combined call ticket files and the n audit files. The call ticket processing method and device are used for processing call tickets.

The embodiment of the invention provides a method and device for improving data processing efficiency based on a bitmap tree algorithm, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a billing ticket,determining a bitmap mobile storage rule corresponding to the billing ticket, and extracting key field information in the billing ticket; storing the key field information in the billing ticket according to a bitmap mobile storage rule corresponding to the billing ticket, and constructing a bitmap tree Trie; and reading the bitmap tree Trie, and generating basic data to be processed. According tothe embodiment of the invention, the user billing ticket is stored in the bitmap tree Trie, so that the memory occupation and resource consumption can be greatly reduced, and meanwhile, the method hasthe advantages of high search speed and the like, and can be used for effectively improving the basic data generation efficiency of a BOSS fusion billing income guarantee subsystem.

The invention relates to the technical field of communication, provides a charging mode switching method, an SMF module and a converged charging system, and aims to solve the problem that switching between two charging modes is not standardized in the prior art. The charging mode switching method corresponding to the SMF module comprises the following steps: in an online charging mode, determiningwhether to switch to an offline charging mode or not according to a switching strategy; wherein the switching strategy is related to the response of a charging function CHF module to a first chargingdata request message for requesting online charging; and sending a second charging data request message for requesting offline charging under the condition of determining to switch to the offline charging mode. Thus, under the condition that the charging system processing unit breaks down, the SMF module can switch the online charging mode into the offline charging mode according to the switchingstrategy, and therefore continuity of the charging session and no loss of charging data are guaranteed.

The embodiment of the invention provides an automatic release method and device in an abnormal communication scene. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring an abnormal authentication response generated by a converged charging engine; updating the occurrence frequency of the error code based on the error code in the abnormal authentication response; if the occurrence frequency of the error code meets a preset release rule, setting a return code in the abnormal authentication response as a release return code. The embodiment of the invention provides a method and device. Whether theoccurrence frequency of an error code in an abnormal authentication response meets a preset release rule or not is counted; according to the method and the device, whether the misjudgment problem caused by CBE faults and other reasons exists or not is judged, and the misjudgment condition is corrected, so that automatic release under the abnormal communication scene is realized, the condition thata user cannot perform normal call service under the abnormal system condition is greatly reduced, and the user experience is optimized.