CN101123513B - Online billing system and method - Google Patents
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The present invention discloses an on-line accounting system, which comprises an account balance management module, an accounting control service point, a tracking module and a trigger module. After receiving account trigger information, the account balance management module divides the current account into more than one accounting unit; after receiving accounting tracking trigger information, the tracking module sends the account trigger information to the account balance management module; meanwhile, accounting cycles are set according to the current accounting units set in the account balance management module, and the timing of one accounting cycle is started; when the timing of a single accounting cycle ends, tracking completion information is sent to the trigger module; after receiving the tracking completion information, the trigger module sends the information triggering user accounting to the accounting control service point; and after receiving the information triggering user accounting, the accounting control service point performs accounting on users. The present invention can real timely acquire the status of user accounts and notify a service-providing device, thus reducing or even avoiding the possibilities of arrearages.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of Online Charging System, relate to a kind of especially based on following the tracks of the Online Charging System and the online charging method of chargeing.
Background technology
In the prior art, (Online Charging System OCS) can support the charging of dialogue-based business to Online Charging System, also can support the charging based on the incident business.With reference to figure 1, be the structural representation of OCS in the prior art.This OCS comprises that account balance management (ABMF) module, charging gateway (CGF) module, wholesale price are handled (RF) module, general-purpose interface layer and the control service point of chargeing, wherein:
The account balance administration module, receiving the recalls information of the control service point of chargeing after, user account is managed, can realize the withholding of user account account book, cover, deduct fees, supplement with money, function such as real-time balance inquiry;
The charging gateway module, receiving the recalls information of the control service point of chargeing after, user's ticket is handled; By the ticket configuration rule, according to the CDR file of different business generation different-formats, this CDR file uses for preferential processing, inquiry, statistics that account system is done the account level;
The wholesale price processing module, receiving the recalls information of the control service point of chargeing after, user's expense is calculated; Support the fusion wholesale price of multiple business by the configuration of charging policy, parameter, can support tariff policy flexibly, support to calculate in real time, preferential in real time, and support just calculating and two kinds of account forms of inverse;
The general-purpose interface layer, for OCS and external service provide the connecting interface of equipment, providing the transmission information translation between the equipment with OCS and external service is the information that meets interface specification, and sends to the opposite end;
Charge and control the service point, realize the core controlled function of OCS, after receiving the user service information of general-purpose interface layer forwarding, according to user's class of business call wholesale price processing module, account balance administration module,, finish the user used charging request authentication, the wholesale price of service, processing such as withhold, deduct fees.
When the user files a request to service providing device, when the request service providing device uses service to control to the user, can cooperatively interact between this service providing device and the OCS, real time billing be carried out in user's use service according to user's service conditions and account's situation.
In the prior art, the charging control technology that OCS adopts service providing device has burst control technology and burst control technology not.The burst control technology refers to: OCS can repeatedly issue the traffic carrying capacity that the user can use service to service providing device, this moment, the user can use the traffic peak of service to be divided into several portions in advance, the traffic carrying capacity that at every turn issues is wherein a part of, that is: service providing device is when the user once can use the traffic carrying capacity of service to use up, can issue the traffic carrying capacity that certain user can use service once more to the OCS application, guarantee that it continues to carry out current business.And the burst control technology does not refer to: OCS only issues the traffic carrying capacity that user can use service to service providing device, and this traffic carrying capacity is a traffic peak complete, that the user can use service.
The charging control technology that service providing device is adopted with OCS is an example for burst control technology not, and the charging control procedure of this OCS may further comprise the steps as shown in Figure 2:
Wherein, inverse is that information calculations users such as requested service classification, tariff policy and account balance according to the user can use the maximum of the service traffic carrying capacity (comprising duration, flow etc.) that can continue;
Wherein: the amount of money that calculates user's actual needs just at last according to user's requested service classification, user's service use amount, user's use cumulative amount, tariff policy etc.
From the process of above-mentioned charging control as can be seen: the user serves the use, and service providing device is responsible for the user and is used professional signaling control, and OCS is responsible for charging, therefore professionally uses control to separate with service billing.Because service providing device can't be predicted customer service and account's situation of change, its traffic carrying capacity that can use is to determine according to the amount of licensing that OCS issues fully, and determines that the sizeable amount of licensing has bigger difficulty in practice.
If the amount of licensing that OCS issues is bigger, under the situation of concurrent charging, the real balance of user account can change, and OCS does not formerly consider this variation when issuing the amount of licensing, the easy like this account's amount owed that causes is bigger, thereby increases the cost of operator.In order to address the above problem, during usually to user's account management a part is set and reserves the amount of money or traffic carrying capacity, but the rationally definite of the reservation amount of money in the user account or traffic carrying capacity equally also has than big difficulty, and reserve owing to exist in the user account, the remaining sum in the user account can not run out fully.
If the amount of licensing that OCS issues is smaller, between the service providing device, frequency of interaction is excessive between service providing device and the OCS, under the certain situation of bandwidth, can cause the mutual load of service providing device and the message load amount of service providing device net and OCS to increase, under a large amount of situations of calling out, cause obstruction and user to use limited easily.
Summary of the invention
The present invention promptly is a kind of Online Charging System and the method that proposes at the shortcoming that exists in the above-mentioned prior art, make the user in using service process, user account can be reduced even avoid the possibility of arrearage effectively by from motion tracking, thereby reduces the operating cost of operator.
To achieve the above object of the invention, the invention provides a kind of Online Charging System, comprising: account balance administration module, charge control service point, tracking module and trigger module, wherein:
The account balance administration module when being used to receive account's trigger message that tracking module sends, is divided into an above Charging Detail Record unit with the current account of user; The size of described Charging Detail Record unit is determined according to customer service situation and the current remaining sum of user account;
Tracking module is used to receive and charges when following the tracks of trigger message, sends account's trigger message to the account balance administration module; Simultaneously metering period is set, and starts the timing of a metering period according to the current Charging Detail Record unit of setting in the account balance administration module; When single metering period timing finishes, send the information of finishing of following the tracks of to trigger module; Described charging is followed the tracks of trigger message and is brought into use the information of new service or the information that described single metering period timing finishes for the user;
Trigger module, when being used to receive tracking that tracking module sends and finishing information, the control service point sends the information that the user charges that triggers to chargeing;
Charge and control the service point, when being used to receive the information that triggers user's charging, user account being chargeed, and when billing operation is failed, issue and forbid that the user continues to use the message of service, notification service provides equipment to forbid that the user continues to use service.
Further, the pairing duration of described metering period is the pairing duration of traffic peak that user that current user account Charging Detail Record unit is allowed can use service.
Further, described account balance administration module also is used to set a remaining sum lower limit, is lower than in the account balance after the charging under the remaining sum of setting in limited time, to the trigger module information that sends that Sorry, your ticket has not enough value.
Further, described trigger module, when also being used for receiving after receiving the account balance administration module information that sends that Sorry, your ticket has not enough value, again the user and increasing the information of using new Service Notification, the control service point sends the information that the user charges that triggers to chargeing.
To achieve the above object of the invention, the present invention also provides a kind of online charging method, comprises the steps:
Receive when chargeing the tracking trigger message that (a) user account is divided into an above Charging Detail Record unit, and each Charging Detail Record unit correspondence is provided with a metering period, starts the timing of a metering period; Described charging is followed the tracks of trigger message and is brought into use the information of new service or the information that described single metering period timing finishes for the user, and the size of described Charging Detail Record unit is determined according to customer service situation and the current remaining sum of user account;
(b) receive the single metering period time to tracking when finishing information, user account is chargeed.When user account chargeed successfully, the timing of next metering period started; When the user account charging failure, Online Charging System issues forbids that the user continues to use the message of service, and notification service provides equipment to ban use of service.
Further, in the described step (a), user account is divided into an above Charging Detail Record unit, each Charging Detail Record unit correspondence is provided with a metering period and is achieved in that
Determine the size of active user account's Charging Detail Record unit according to customer service situation and the current remaining sum of user account;
The user who is allowed according to current user account Charging Detail Record unit can use the traffic peak of service to determine the duration of metering period.
Further, described step (b) also comprises:
Be lower than in the user account remaining sum and set the remaining sum lower limit and to receive this user again when increasing the information of using Service Notification, user account is chargeed.
Further, described step (b) also comprises the steps: afterwards
When receiving the customer service end notification of service providing device transmission, the timing of current metering period stops, and user account is chargeed.
Compared with prior art, the Online Charging System and the method for controlling of chargeing thereof proposed by the invention have following remarkable advantage:
(1) can grasp user and account's situation in real time, and, reach the possibility that reduces even avoid arrearage, thereby reduce the operating cost of operator user and account's change real-time informing service providing device;
(2) can follow the tracks of charging to professional use amount according to the time;
(3) because the control of chargeing is to finish in OCS inside, do not need to increase the message load amount of mutual load and service providing device net and the OCS of service providing device, can not cause and block or user's business use is restricted.
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Fig. 1 is the structural representation of Online Charging System in the prior art;
Fig. 2 is the flow chart of the control of chargeing in the online charging process in the prior art;
Fig. 3 is the structural representation of a kind of Online Charging System of the present invention;
Fig. 4 is the flow chart of the control of chargeing in the online charging process of the present invention.
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Below in conjunction with the drawings and specific embodiments the present invention is further introduced, but not as a limitation of the invention.
With reference to figure 3, be the structural representation of a kind of Online Charging System of the present invention.This OCS comprises account balance administration module, charging gateway module, wholesale price processing module, general-purpose interface layer, charge control service point, tracking module and trigger module, wherein:
The account balance administration module, receiving the recalls information of the control service point of chargeing after, user account is managed, can realize the withholding of user account account book, cover, deduct fees, supplement with money, function such as real-time balance inquiry; Also when receiving account's trigger message that tracking module sends, the current account of user is divided into a plurality of Charging Detail Record unit; Also be used to set a remaining sum lower limit, be lower than in the account balance after the charging under the remaining sum of setting in limited time, to the trigger module information that sends that Sorry, your ticket has not enough value.Wherein, the size of Charging Detail Record unit is determined according to customer service situation and the current remaining sum of user account;
The charging gateway module, receiving the recalls information of the control service point of chargeing after, user's ticket is handled; By the ticket configuration rule, according to the CDR file of different business generation different-formats, this CDR file uses for preferential processing, inquiry, statistics that account system is done the account level;
The wholesale price processing module, receiving the recalls information of the control service point of chargeing after, user's expense is calculated; Support the fusion wholesale price of multiple business by the configuration of charging policy, parameter, can support tariff policy flexibly, support to calculate in real time, preferential in real time, and support just calculating and two kinds of account forms of inverse;
The general-purpose interface layer, for OCS and external service provide the connecting interface of equipment, being used for providing the transmission information translation between equipment and the call charge service control point with external service is the information that meets interface specification, and sends to the opposite end; The user that the service providing device that also is used for receiving sends brings into use new information on services to be transmitted to tracking module;
Charge and control the service point, realize the core controlled function of OCS, be used for after receiving the user service information that the general-purpose interface layer transmits or information that triggering user that trigger module sends charges after, call wholesale price processing module, account balance administration module according to user's class of business, finish the user is used charging request authentication, the wholesale price of service, processing such as withhold, deduct fees.
Tracking module is used for sending account's trigger message to the account balance administration module when the user who receives the transmission of general-purpose interface layer brings into use the information of new service; Simultaneously can use the traffic peak of service that metering period is set, and the timing that starts a metering period begin according to the user that current Charging Detail Record unit allowed who sets in the account balance administration module; When single metering period timing finishes, send tracking to trigger module and finish information, send account's trigger message to the account balance administration module;
Trigger module, when being used to receive tracking that tracking module sends and finishing information, or after receiving the account balance administration module information that sends that Sorry, your ticket has not enough value, receive user that the general-purpose interface layer sends when increasing the information of using new Service Notification again, the control service point sends the information that the user charges that triggers to chargeing.
When the user files a request to service providing device, after the request service providing device uses service to control to the user, cooperatively interact between service providing device, the OCS, service conditions and account balance situation according to the user are carried out real time billing to user's use service, the charging control flow of OCS may further comprise the steps as shown in Figure 4:
Step 208 judges whether the timing of a metering period finishes, if, carry out next step 209, if not, return execution in step 207;
Step 211 stops the timing of current metering period, charges by the method for just calculating.
As can be seen, the method for the Online Charging System proposed by the invention and the control of chargeing thereof has following remarkable advantage from the foregoing description:
(1) can grasp user and account's situation in real time, and, reach the possibility that reduces even avoid arrearage, thereby reduce the operating cost of operator user and account's change real-time informing service providing device;
(2) can follow the tracks of charging to the service use amount according to the time;
(3) because the control of chargeing is to finish in OCS inside, do not need to increase the message load amount of mutual load and service providing device net and the OCS of service providing device, can not cause and block or user's service use is restricted.
In another embodiment, in the time of can also finishing in the timing of a metering period, reset Charging Detail Record unit according to user's service conditions and the remaining sum in the back user account that charges, promptly redefine the duration of metering period, like this can be when user's account balance be relatively more sufficient, with the duration of metering period select bigger, when user's account balance is inadequate, with the duration of metering period select smaller, make the user in using service process, can arrearage not excessive, reduced the arrearage cost of operator.
In another embodiment, if in a metering period, OCS and service providing device have taken place that another is mutual, when OCS receives the notice that another new service of user begins, can judge according to user's service conditions and last charging situation: if user's account balance value abundance directly increases the interactive operation of OCS and service providing device; When if the user account remaining sum is inadequate, carry out the primary charging operation, reset Charging Detail Record unit then, redefine the duration of metering period; If user account remaining sum value wretched insufficiency can directly not allow interactive operation to take place.
What need explanation a bit is, in the above-described embodiments, is to realize tracking to remaining sum in the user account by setting a metering period, that is: the user when the timing of a metering period finishes, carry out primary charging.It can be to realize by the timer mode that the timing of this metering period realizes, also can realize in other modes such as program mode (PM)s.
What also need to illustrate a bit is, for the user account of being mentioned in the foregoing description can be the account of containing all remaining sums of user, also can be the real balance account after deduction is reserved, whether this account carries out the remaining sum reservation be predefined by Online Charging System.
The above only is preferred embodiment of the present invention, not in order to restriction the present invention, all any modifications of being made within the spirit and principles in the present invention, is equal to and replaces and improvement etc., all should be included within protection scope of the present invention.
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1. Online Charging System comprises: the account balance administration module and the control service point of chargeing is characterized in that this system also comprises: tracking module and trigger module, wherein:
The account balance administration module when being used to receive account's trigger message that tracking module sends, is divided into an above Charging Detail Record unit with the current account of user; The size of described Charging Detail Record unit is determined according to customer service situation and the current remaining sum of user account;
Tracking module is used to receive and charges when following the tracks of trigger message, sends account's trigger message to the account balance administration module; Simultaneously metering period is set, and starts the timing of a metering period according to the current Charging Detail Record unit of setting in the account balance administration module; When single metering period timing finishes, send the information of finishing of following the tracks of to trigger module; Described charging is followed the tracks of trigger message and is brought into use the information of new service or the information that described single metering period timing finishes for the user;
Trigger module, when being used to receive tracking that tracking module sends and finishing information, the control service point sends the information that the user charges that triggers to chargeing;
Charge and control the service point, when being used to receive the information that triggers user's charging, user account being chargeed, and when billing operation is failed, issue and forbid that the user continues to use the message of service, notification service provides equipment to forbid that the user continues to use service.
2. the system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, the pairing duration of described metering period is the pairing duration of traffic peak that user that current user account Charging Detail Record unit is allowed can use service.
3. the system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described account balance administration module also is used to set a remaining sum lower limit, is lower than in the account balance after the charging under the remaining sum of setting in limited time, to the trigger module information that sends that Sorry, your ticket has not enough value.
4. system as claimed in claim 3, it is characterized in that, described trigger module, also be used to receive the account balance administration module information that sends that Sorry, your ticket has not enough value after, receive the user when increasing the information of using new Service Notification again, the control service point sends the information that the user charges that triggers to chargeing.
5. an online charging method comprises the steps:
Receive when chargeing the tracking trigger message that (a) user account is divided into an above Charging Detail Record unit, and each Charging Detail Record unit correspondence is provided with a metering period, starts the timing of a metering period; Described charging is followed the tracks of trigger message and is brought into use the information of new service or the information that described single metering period timing finishes for the user, and the size of described Charging Detail Record unit is determined according to customer service situation and the current remaining sum of user account;
(b) receive the single metering period time to tracking when finishing information, user account is chargeed, when user account chargeed successfully, the timing of next metering period started; When the user account charging failure, Online Charging System issues forbids that the user continues to use the message of service, and notification service provides equipment to ban use of service.
6. method as claimed in claim 5 is characterized in that, in the described step (a), user account is divided into an above Charging Detail Record unit, and each Charging Detail Record unit correspondence is provided with a metering period and is achieved in that
Determine the size of active user account's Charging Detail Record unit according to customer service situation and the current remaining sum of user account;
The user who is allowed according to current user account Charging Detail Record unit can use the traffic peak of service to determine the duration of metering period.
7. method as claimed in claim 5 is characterized in that, described step (b) also comprises:
Be lower than in the user account remaining sum and set the remaining sum lower limit and to receive this user again when increasing the information of using Service Notification, user account is chargeed.
8. method as claimed in claim 5 is characterized in that, described step (b) also comprises the steps: afterwards
When receiving the customer service end notification of service providing device transmission, the timing of current metering period stops, and user account is chargeed.
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