CN101540688A - Method and system for charging streaming media service, charging server and terminal - Google Patents
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The invention discloses a method for charging streaming media service, which comprises the following steps that: a charging server acquires service quality information of streaming media data through a terminal; the charging server searches a fee rate corresponding to the acquired service quality information according to a preset mapping relation between the service quality information and the fee rate; and the charging server charges by using the searched fee rate. The method makes the charging result more accurate and offers better user experience. The invention also discloses a system for charging the streaming media service, the charging server and the terminal.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to the data transmission technology of the communications field, relate in particular to a kind of charging method, system and accounting server of streaming media service.
Background technology
Streaming media service is meant continuous audio, video data is stored in the streaming media server that terminal is downloaded audio, video data and play the business of the audio, video data of having downloaded simultaneously from streaming media server after overcompression is handled.Audio, video data is as streaming medium content buffer memory in terminal only, if same content needs repeatedly repeat playing, then terminal must be distinguished repeatedly repeated downloads from streaming media server.
Streaming media service is the business of technology such as a kind of collection of merging stream medium data, compression, storage and network service, and along with the raising of network technology level, streaming media service has also obtained continuous development.As a kind of important network value added service, different operators is also inequality to the charging way of streaming media service with streaming media service in operator.The rate structure of streaming media service comprises communication expense and information charge at present, and communication expense is the traffic fee that takes place in the streaming media service use, and information charge is the usage charges of business tine.There are pay-per-use, monthly payment to charge and for the charging way of information charge by multiple charge types such as duration chargings.Because the quality of the audio, video data that terminal receives is different, the media content viewing quality that the user may not obtain the whole media contents expected or acquisition is lower, but in due order or for the charging way of duration, the user still will pay and expect the desired same-cost of the viewing quality that obtains, and makes user experience relatively poor.
Summary of the invention
The embodiment of the invention provides a kind of charging method, system, accounting server and terminal of streaming media service, obtain relatively poor streaming media service quality information to solve the user who exists in the prior art, the identical expense of streaming media service quality information that but will pay and expect makes user experience relatively poor.
A kind of charging method of streaming media service, described method comprises:
Accounting server obtains service quality information of streaming media data through terminal;
Accounting server finds out the rate of the service quality information correspondence of acquisition according to the corresponding relation of predefined service quality information and rate;
The described rate that the accounting server utilization finds out is chargeed.
A kind of charge system of streaming media service, described charge system comprise accounting server and the terminal that is attached thereto, wherein:
Described accounting server, be used for obtaining service quality information of streaming media data through described terminal, and, find out the rate of the described service quality information correspondence of acquisition according to the corresponding relation of predefined service quality information and rate, utilize this rate to charge.
A kind of accounting server, described accounting server comprises:
Acquisition module is used to obtain service quality information of streaming media data;
Search module, be used for corresponding relation, find out the rate of the described service quality information correspondence of acquisition according to predefined service quality information and rate;
Accounting module is used to utilize the described rate that finds out to charge.
A kind of terminal, this terminal comprises:
Receiver module is used for the receiving stream media data;
Determination module is used for determining the parameter information of described stream medium data, perhaps determines also to calculate service quality information behind the described parameter information;
Sending module is used to send described parameter information or the described service quality information determined.
Charging method, charge system, accounting server and terminal by streaming media service provided by the invention, accounting server is after terminal is obtained service quality information of streaming media data, charge according to this service quality information of streaming media data, make charging result more accurate, better user experience.
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Fig. 1 is the steps flow chart schematic diagram of the charging method of streaming media service in the embodiment of the invention one;
Fig. 2 is the charge system structural representation of streaming media service in the embodiment of the invention five;
Fig. 3 is a charging server architecture schematic diagram in the embodiment of the invention six;
Fig. 4 is a terminal structure schematic diagram in the embodiment of the invention seven.
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Describe the present invention program in detail below in conjunction with the detailed description accompanying drawing.
The terminal of being put down in writing in the embodiment of the invention can be that portable terminal also can be fixed terminals such as PC, does not do qualification herein.
As shown in Figure 1, be the steps flow chart schematic diagram of the charging method of streaming media service in the embodiment of the invention one, as can be seen from the figure this method may further comprise the steps:
Step 101: streaming media server is to the terminal transmission stream medium data.
Step 102: terminal receives described stream medium data, and the parameter information of definite stream medium data.
Step 103: accounting server obtains service quality information of streaming media data through terminal.
In the packet loss the terminal one or more of decoding rate, population variance (SSE), mean square deviation (MSE) or the Y-PSNR (PSNR) of the service quality information of the media data stream medium data that can be received by terminal, streaming media server are weighed in the present embodiment.The parameter information that terminal is determined in the step 102 is the information that is used for the computing service quality information, for example, when service quality information is meant packet loss, parameter information will comprise the packet number of streaming media server transmission and the packet number that the terminal actual reception arrives.
Accounting server obtains service quality information of streaming media data can dual mode, comprising:
1, terminal is determined service quality information according to the parameter information of stream medium data, and sends to accounting server.
2, terminal sends to accounting server with the parameter information of stream medium data, calculates service quality information by accounting server according to the parameter information that receives.
For fear of service quality information losing in transmission course, terminal will be periodically to accounting server report service quality information or parameter information.
Step 104: accounting server selects corresponding rate to charge according to the service quality information that obtains.
Preserved the corresponding relation of service quality information in the accounting server with rate, for example, if service quality information is meant the decoding rate of the media data that end-on is received, then with corresponding first rate of the service quality information of decoding rate between 90% to 100%, professional corresponding second rate of decoding rate between 60% to 90%, decoding rate is lower than 60% professional corresponding the 3rd rate, accounting server finds out rate according to the service quality information that receives from above-mentioned corresponding relation, and carries out billing operation according to the rate that finds out.
If terminal only sends service quality information or parameter information to accounting server in streaming media service implementation, then accounting server just begins to charge when receiving this service quality information or calculating service quality information according to parameter information; If terminal is periodically to send service quality information or parameter information to accounting server, then carry out to finish back (be user listen to or watch the streaming medium content end) when streaming media service, terminal sends the streaming media service END instruction to accounting server, and the service quality information that accounting server just comprehensively obtains is chargeed.If but the streaming media service END instruction is lost in transmission course and just may be caused accounting server to know when beginning chargeing, in order to address this problem, accounting server starts timer each the acquisition after the service quality information, if before the time that timer is set arrives, receive service quality information, parameter information or streaming media service END instruction, then stop timing and carry out corresponding operation; Otherwise accounting server charges according to acquired service quality information.
Be that decoding rate, population variance and packet loss are embodiment two, embodiment three and embodiment four with service quality information respectively below, describe implementation of the present invention in detail.For convenience, among the embodiment two, three and four, terminal all directly sends service quality information to accounting server.
In present embodiment two, suppose the terminal request audio file that to obtain a length from streaming media server be 60s, send a decoding rate every 10s to accounting server, accounting server starts timer after receiving a decoding rate, and the setting duration is 60s.Terminal periodic ground to the decoding rate that accounting server sends is respectively: 95%, 100%, 98%, 88%, 99% and 100%, accounting server calculates and on average is decoded as 96.7%, the rate that finds out this decoding rate place interval range correspondence is chargeed, and obtains actual expense.
, the 3rd decoding rate do not arrive accounting server if losing owing to the network reason, then accounting server is 96.4% according to the decoding rate 95%, 100%, 88%, 99% and 100% calculating mean value that receive, the rate that finds out this mean value place interval range correspondence is chargeed, less with the actual conditions error, charging result is more accurate.
In present embodiment three, population variance is the evaluating that proposes at the damaged condition of each Frame of decoding back.Suppose to have original video frame f before the coding (x, y), size be (M, N), M is a line number, N is a columns.Pass through Network Transmission in terminal behind the coding, terminal is decoded from code stream and is recovered frame of video with the original video frame proximate, and (x, y), size also is that (M, N), then the account form of population variance as shown in Equation (1) might as well to be assumed to be g.
Can calculate acquisition mean square deviation and Y-PSNR by SSE, respectively shown in formula (2) and formula (3).
For gray level image, directly adopt above-mentioned formula (1), (2), (3) to calculate and get final product.But, then must adopt above-mentioned formula to calculate separately to each component for the color video frequency image of a plurality of components.Such as, suppose to have a video image that adopts the YUV4:2:0 planar format, size is 16 * 16 (unit is a pixel), and the size on Y plane just is 16 * 16 so, and U plane and V plane then all are the planes of 8 * 8 sizes.Like this, in the PSNR that calculates the Y plane, M=N=16; And in the PSNR that calculates U plane and V plane, M=N=8.
In embodiment three schemes of population variance as service quality information, step is identical with the scheme of embodiment two.Further, comprehensive embodiment two and embodiment three can also be with decoding rate and population variance jointly as service quality information, and comprehensive decoding rate of accounting server and population variance obtain suitable rate.For example: it is not an a rate value but suitable rate is selected according to the value of population variance then in the rate interval from the rate interval that obtains that accounting server calculates what obtain behind the average decoding rate.
In embodiment four, packet loss is meant that institute's lost data packets quantity in the transmission accounts for the ratio of the packet that sends.In the present embodiment, streaming media server is after terminal sends stream medium data, the total amount (Qs) of the transmission packet that counts is sent to terminal in reliable transmission mode (as the TCP mode), the data packet number (Qr) that Qs that terminal sends over according to streaming media server and actual reception arrive, calculate packet loss, and packet loss sent to accounting server, and carrying out follow-up billing operation with this, specific operation process and embodiment two are similar.
Corresponding with embodiment one, two, three and four, the embodiment of the invention five also provides a kind of charge system of streaming media service, as shown in Figure 2, this system comprises terminal 11 and accounting server 12, link to each other between the two, wherein: described accounting server 12 is used for obtaining service quality information of streaming media data through described terminal 11, and according to the corresponding relation of predefined service quality information and rate, find out the rate of the described service quality information correspondence of acquisition, utilize this rate to charge.
The scheme that accounting server 12 obtains service quality information in the system comprises:
1, described accounting server 12 receives the service quality information that described terminal 11 is determined according to the parameter information of stream medium data.
2, receive the parameter information of the stream medium data of described terminal 11 transmissions, and calculate service quality information according to this parameter information.
Send stream medium data by the streaming media server in the charge system 13 to terminal 11.
Described accounting server 12 periodically receives service quality information or parameter information, when described accounting server receives service quality information or parameter information more than 12 time, search corresponding rate and utilize this rate to charge according to the mean value of these a plurality of service quality information.Described accounting server finds out corresponding rate according to the service quality information that has received and charges under following two kinds of situations:
1, after obtaining described service quality information, when also receiving the streaming media service END instruction;
2, obtaining to start timer after the described service quality information, when after setting-up time arrives, not receiving streaming media service END instruction, service quality information or parameter information.
The embodiment of the invention six also provides a kind of accounting server, this accounting server can be the accounting server in the charge system among the embodiment five, as shown in Figure 3, comprise acquisition module 21, search module 22 and accounting module 23, wherein: acquisition module 21 is used to obtain service quality information of streaming media data; Search module 22 and be used for corresponding relation, find out the rate of the described service quality information correspondence of obtaining according to predefined service quality information and rate; Accounting module 23 is used to utilize the described rate that finds out to charge.
The scheme that acquisition module 21 obtains service quality information comprises:
1, the service quality information of acquisition module 21 direct receiving stream media data.
2, the parameter information of acquisition module 21 receiving stream media data, and utilize described parameter information to calculate service quality information.
Described acquisition module 21 periodically receives service quality information or parameter information, when acquisition module 21 obtains a plurality of service quality information, searches module 22 finds out correspondence according to the mean value of a plurality of service quality information rate.Described acquisition module 21 when going back the instruction of receiving stream media service ending, triggers the described module 22 of searching after obtaining described service quality information; Perhaps, acquisition module 21 is obtaining to start timer after the described service quality information, when not receiving streaming media service END instruction, service quality information or parameter information after setting-up time arrives, triggers the described module 22 of searching.
The embodiment of the invention seven also provides a kind of terminal, and this terminal can be the terminal in the charge system among the embodiment five, as shown in Figure 4, comprises receiver module 31, determination module 32 and sending module 33, and wherein: receiver module 31 is used for the receiving stream media data; Determination module 32 is used for determining the parameter information of described stream medium data, perhaps determines also to calculate service quality information behind the described parameter information; Sending module 33 is used to send described parameter information or the described service quality information of determining.
Described sending module 33 is used for periodically sending described parameter information or described service quality information, further, can also send the streaming media service END instruction.
The streaming media service charging method, charge system, accounting server and the terminal that provide by the embodiment of the invention, accounting server obtains service quality information of streaming media data through terminal, charge according to the service quality information that obtains, make better user experience; In addition, accounting server charges according to the mean value of a plurality of service quality information that obtain, as long as just all do not lose can normal billing for service quality information, has reduced the risk of the information dropout that is used to charge; And when receiving service quality information, start timer, avoided the problem that causes charging normally to carry out owing to loss of data.
Obviously, those skilled in the art can carry out various changes and modification to the present invention and not break away from the spirit and scope of the present invention.Like this, if of the present invention these are revised and modification belongs within the scope of claim of the present invention and equivalent technologies thereof, then the present invention also is intended to comprise these changes and modification interior.
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1, a kind of charging method of streaming media service is characterized in that, described method comprises:
Accounting server obtains service quality information of streaming media data through terminal;
Accounting server finds out the rate of the service quality information correspondence of acquisition according to the corresponding relation of predefined service quality information and rate;
The described rate that the accounting server utilization finds out is chargeed.
2, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, described service quality information is one or more in the packet loss of decoding rate, population variance, mean square deviation, Y-PSNR and transmission course of stream medium data.
3, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, described accounting server obtains service quality information of streaming media data through terminal, comprising:
The service quality information that the accounting server receiving terminal is determined according to the parameter information of stream medium data; Perhaps
The parameter information of the stream medium data that the accounting server receiving terminal sends, and calculate service quality information according to this parameter information.
4, method as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that, described accounting server periodically receives service quality information or parameter information.
5, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, if in the implementation of a streaming media service, described accounting server obtains a plurality of service quality information, then searches corresponding rate according to the mean value of described a plurality of service quality information.
6, method as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that, described accounting server obtains service quality information, and when receiving the streaming media service END instruction that terminal sends, finds out corresponding rate according to the service quality information that obtains; Perhaps
Accounting server does not receive streaming media service END instruction, service quality information or parameter information obtaining to start timer after the service quality information after setting-up time arrives, then find out corresponding rate according to acquired service quality information.
7, a kind of charge system of streaming media service is characterized in that, described charge system comprises accounting server and the terminal that is attached thereto, wherein:
Described accounting server, be used for obtaining service quality information of streaming media data through described terminal, and, find out the rate of the described service quality information correspondence of acquisition according to the corresponding relation of predefined service quality information and rate, utilize this rate to charge.
8, system as claimed in claim 7 is characterized in that,
Described accounting server is used to receive the service quality information that described terminal is determined according to the parameter information of stream medium data; Perhaps
Receive the parameter information of the stream medium data of described terminal transmission, and calculate service quality information according to this parameter information.
9, system as claimed in claim 8 is characterized in that,
Described accounting server is used for periodically receiving service quality information or parameter information.
10, system as claimed in claim 8 is characterized in that,
Described accounting server is used for when obtaining a plurality of service quality information, searches corresponding rate and utilizes this rate to charge according to the mean value of a plurality of service quality information.
11, system as claimed in claim 8 is characterized in that,
Described accounting server is used for after obtaining described service quality information, when also receiving the streaming media service END instruction, finds out corresponding rate according to the service quality information of having obtained, and charges; Perhaps,
Start timer after obtaining described service quality information, after setting-up time arrives, do not receive streaming media service END instruction, service quality information or parameter information, then find out corresponding rate, and charge according to the service quality information that has received.
12, a kind of accounting server is characterized in that, described accounting server comprises:
Acquisition module is used to obtain service quality information of streaming media data;
Search module, be used for corresponding relation, find out the rate of the described service quality information correspondence of acquisition according to predefined service quality information and rate;
Accounting module is used to utilize the described rate that finds out to charge.
13, accounting server as claimed in claim 12 is characterized in that,
Described acquisition module is used for the service quality information of receiving stream media data; Perhaps
The parameter information of receiving stream media data, and utilize described parameter information to calculate service quality information.
14, accounting server as claimed in claim 13 is characterized in that,
Described acquisition module is used for periodically receiving described service quality information or parameter information.
15, accounting server as claimed in claim 13 is characterized in that,
Described acquisition module is used to obtain a plurality of service quality information;
The described module of searching is used for finding out corresponding rate according to the mean value of a plurality of service quality information.
16, accounting server as claimed in claim 13 is characterized in that,
Described acquisition module is used for after obtaining described service quality information, when going back the instruction of receiving stream media service ending, triggers the described module of searching; Perhaps
After obtaining described service quality information, start timer, when after setting-up time arrives, not receiving streaming media service END instruction, service quality information or parameter information, trigger the described module of searching.
17, a kind of terminal is characterized in that, this terminal comprises:
Receiver module is used for the receiving stream media data;
Determination module is used for determining the parameter information of described stream medium data, perhaps determines to calculate service quality information behind the described parameter information;
Sending module is used to send described parameter information or the described service quality information determined.
18, terminal as claimed in claim 17 is characterized in that,
Described sending module is used for periodically sending described parameter information or described service quality information.
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