Separate Billing System for BYOD Service Differentiation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing billing methods for BYOD services struggle to accurately distinguish between individual and work services, leading to inaccurate charging, as they rely on conventional methods that charge businesses for user services without clear differentiation.
Innovation Solution
A separate billing system comprising a business service server, terminal, billing policy server, BYOD service gateway, and separate billing server, which analyzes billing data based on policy information to generate distinct billing information for individual and business services, regardless of network access type, using authentication and accounting servers for authorization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a conventional billing method charges different rates depending on service type (internet, video, VOIP), then billing differentiation is attempted, but the method cannot accurately distinguish individual service from work service
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the billing system into multiple functional components: a policy server that stores billing policies, a gateway that generates billing data, and a separate billing server that analyzes billing data. This segmentation allows each component to specialize in specific tasks, improving service distinction accuracy without overwhelming complexity in a single system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a gateway as an intermediary component between the terminal and the billing servers. The gateway generates billing data based on service information and transmits it to the separate billing server, which then analyzes the data according to policies from the policy server. This intermediary structure enables accurate service differentiation through dedicated data processing roles.
2Ease of operation
If all services are received through a single terminal for convenience and cost effectiveness, then user convenience improves, but accurate billing differentiation between individual and work services becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by assigning different billing policies to different service types and users. The policy server stores multiple billing policies that can be selectively applied based on the specific service being accessed and the user's authorization status. This allows the system to maintain a unified access point while applying differentiated billing rules locally to each service instance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes billing parameters dynamically based on service type, user identity, and authorization status. The separate billing server analyzes billing data using variable parameters such as service category, user role, and policy conditions, allowing accurate differentiation of individual versus work service usage even when accessed through the same terminal.
3Productivity
If a business bears some charge for user services using conventional charging methods, then cost sharing is achieved, but the charging method is not accurate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the separate billing server analyzes billing data according to stored policies and generates accurate billing information that is transmitted back to the network operator's billing system. This feedback loop ensures that businesses are charged precisely for work-related services based on objective analysis of billing data, rather than arbitrary or approximate allocations.
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AI summary
A separate billing system for BYOD service includes a business service server configured to provide a business service, a terminal configured to request a business service from the business service server, a billing policy server configured to store billing policy information, a BYOD service gateway configured to control the terminal to transmit and receive data with the business service server via an access device, and generate billing data according to the transmission and reception, and a separate billing server configured to analyze the billing data based on the billing policy information, and generate separate billing information.