CN102098648A - Roaming charging method and system - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides a roaming charging method and a roaming charging system, which relate to the field of communication. The method comprises that: in roaming, a visited policy and charging rules function (PCRF) entity and a home PCRF entity transmit charging-related information; and an online charging system realizes charging according to the transmitted charging-related information.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to the communications field, relate in particular to a kind of roam charging method and system.
Background technology
Along with the development of mobile service, the services of roaming between carrier network day by day increase, thereby rate between operator and clearing problem are more and more outstanding.
For example; the user of the A of operator roams in the network of the B of operator; because both sides' charging regulation and communication statistic information granularity are inconsistent; and operator is for to considerations such as the privately owned characteristic protection of self charge system and system safety; do not wish the off-line accounting system OFCS of self directly is exposed to the other side; cause statistics professional equally in this user's the ticket inconsistent, can't realize that the accurate accounting checking of charge information is chargeed and reasonable the clearing.
Summary of the invention
A kind of roam charging method provided by the invention and system realize the accurate accounting checking of the offline charging information the when user roams and clearing rationally.
To achieve the above object of the invention, the invention provides following technical scheme:
A kind of roam charging method comprises:
During roaming, the relevant information of transmission charging between visit ground strategy and charging regulation function entity (PCRF) and the ownership place PCRF;
The information that off-line accounting system is relevant according to the described charging that transmits realizes chargeing.
Further, described method also has following characteristics:
Described visit ground PCRF transmits the relevant information of described charging by the S9 interface between local and the described ownership place PCRF.
Further, described method also has following characteristics:
Described visit ground PCRF is by described ownership place PCRF and the relevant information of the mutual described charging of described ownership place off-line accounting system (OFCS).
Further, described method also has following characteristics: described method also comprises:
When roaming visit ground inserted, visit ground PCRF sent the relevant information of chargeing to described visit ground OFCS; Or:
When roaming visit ground inserted, visit ground PCRF sent the relevant information of chargeing to described visit ground OFCS, and visit ground PCRF sends the relevant information of chargeing by ownership place PCRF to described ownership place OFCS.
Further, described method also has following characteristics: described method also comprises:
When the roaming ownership place inserted, visit ground PCRF sent the relevant information of chargeing by ownership place PCRF to described ownership place OFCS; And/or ownership place PCRF sends the relevant information of chargeing to affiliated ownership place OFCS.
Further, described method also has following characteristics: described visit ground PCRF sends the relevant information of described charging when satisfying following arbitrary condition, comprising:
Professional flow reaches the traffic threshold that sets in advance;
Professional execution duration reaches the time threshold that sets in advance;
The system time of network system reaches the moment that sets in advance;
Professional rate changes;
Terminal is carried out information updating, comprises that the position is upgraded, access style upgrades, the time zone is upgraded or IP connects Access Network (IP-CAN) session updates;
Service ending.
Further, described method also has following characteristics: the information that described charging is relevant obtains by following one or more entities, comprising: described visit ground PCRF, strategy and charging execution function entity PCEF or bearing binding and event reporting function entity (BBERF).
Further, described method also has following characteristics: the communication information granularity of the information that described charging is relevant comprise following one or more, comprising: whole business data flows of a business data flow, one group of business data flow, whole business data flows of an IP-CAN session, an access point or whole business data flows of described terminal.
Further, described method also has following characteristics: the information that described charging is relevant comprises and comprises following one or more: professional flow, professional execution duration, the incident in the process of service execution, professional service identification, professional rate group id, professional access style, professional time-zone information.
A kind of roam charge system comprises: visit ground strategy and charging regulation function entity (PCRF), ownership place PCRF, user, charge system,
Visit ground strategy and charging regulation function entity (PCRF), be used for ownership place PCRF between transmit the relevant information of chargeing;
Charge system is used for the information relevant according to the described charging that transmits, and realizes chargeing.
Further, described system also has following characteristics: described visit ground PCRF transmits the relevant information of described charging by the S9 interface between local and the described ownership place PCRF.
Further, described system also has following characteristics: described visit ground PCRF is by described ownership place PCRF and the relevant information of the mutual described charging of described ownership place off-line accounting system (OFCS).
Further, described system also has following characteristics: described system also comprises:
When roaming visit ground inserted, visit ground PCRF sent the relevant information of chargeing to described visit ground OFCS; Or:
When roaming visit ground inserted, visit ground PCRF sent the relevant information of chargeing to described visit ground OFCS, and visit ground PCRF sends the relevant information of chargeing by ownership place PCRF to described ownership place OFCS.
Further, described system also has following characteristics: described system also comprises:
When the roaming ownership place inserted, visit ground PCRF sent the relevant information of chargeing by ownership place PCRF to described ownership place OFCS; And/or ownership place PCRF sends the relevant information of chargeing to the affiliated ownership place OFCS that states.
Further, described system also has following characteristics: described visit ground PCRF sends the relevant information of described charging when satisfying following arbitrary condition, comprising:
Professional flow reaches the traffic threshold that sets in advance;
Professional execution duration reaches the time threshold that sets in advance;
The system time of network system reaches the moment that sets in advance;
Professional rate changes;
Terminal is carried out information updating, comprises that the position is upgraded, access style upgrades, the time zone is upgraded or IP connects Access Network (IP-CAN) session updates;
Service ending.
Further, described system also has following characteristics: the information that described charging is relevant obtains by following one or more entities, comprising: described visit ground PCRF, strategy and charging execution function entity PCEF or bearing binding and event reporting function entity (BBERF).
Further, described system also has following characteristics: the communication information granularity of the information that described charging is relevant comprise following one or more, comprising: whole business data flows of a business data flow, one group of business data flow, whole business data flows of an IP-CAN session, an access point or whole business data flows of described terminal.
Further, described system also has following characteristics: the information that described charging is relevant comprises and comprises following one or more: professional flow, professional execution duration, the incident in the process of service execution, professional service identification, professional rate group id, professional access style, professional time-zone information.
Transmit the relevant information of chargeing between roam charging method provided by the invention and the system, visit ground PCRF and ownership place PCRF, guarantee that ownership place and visit ground can get access to complete charge information, accurate accounting checking is chargeed, reasonable purpose of settling accounts thereby reach.
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Fig. 1 is the grouping system structural representation of evolution provided by the invention;
Fig. 2 is the control system structural representation of strategy provided by the invention and charging;
The structural representation of roam charge system when Fig. 3 is the access of roaming visit provided by the invention ground;
The sequential chart of the management of information method that Fig. 4 is correlated with for implementing to charge in;
Fig. 5 is the structural representation of roaming ownership place provided by the invention roam charge system when inserting;
The sequential chart of the management of information method that Fig. 6 is correlated with for implementing to charge in two.
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Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing the technical scheme that the embodiment of the invention provides is described further.
As shown in Figure 1, third generation partner program (3GPP, 3rd Generation PartnershipProject) grouping system (EPS of evolution, Evolved Packet System) comprising: the universal mobile telecommunications system land radio access web (E-UTRAN of evolution, Evolved Universal TerrestrialRadio Access Network), mobile management unit (MME, Mobility Management Entity), gateway (S-GW, Serving Gateway), grouped data network gateway (P-GW or PDNGW, Packet Data Network Gateway), home subscriber server (HSS, Home SubscriberServer), authentication and authorization charging (the AAA of 3GPP, Authentication, Authorization andAccounting) server, "Policy and Charging Rules Function entity (PCRF, Policy and ChargingRules Function) and other support nodes.
In the EPS system architecture, strategy and the control (PCC, Policy and ChargingControl) of chargeing are parts wherein.As shown in Figure 2, each functional entity of PCC can distribute as follows in the described EPS framework, comprise: PCRF is the "Policy and Charging Rules Function entity, strategy and charging execution function entity (PCEF, Policy and Charging Enforcement Function) is present among the P-GW, bearing binding and event reporting function entity (BBERF, Bearer Binding and Event ReportFunction) can be present among the S-GW, professional Application Function (AF, Application Function) is present in carrier network agreement (IP, Internet Protocol) business network, user-subscribed database (SPR, Subscription Profile Repository) can be unified with HSS.
In 3GPP, (APN, Access Point Name) can find corresponding PDN network by APN.Usually UE is called the session of an IP connection Access Network (IP-CAN, IP Connectivity Access Network) to a connection of PDN network.
In described EPS system architecture, user's access style is by IP-CAN type and wireless access type (RAT, Radio Access Type) come common identification: the IP-CAN type is in order to distinguish access network type (for example: 3GPP or WiMAX etc.), when the IP-CAN type is 3GPP or 3GPP2 access, need further depend on RAT and distinguish wireless access type (for example: when 3GPP inserts, be the wireless access of UTRAN or E-UTRAN).
As shown in Figure 2, PCC is applicable to all 3GPP IP-CAN, and described PCRF mainly is responsible for the formulation of strategy and charging regulation, by the Gx interface PCC strategy and the charging regulation of formulating is handed down to PCEF, PCEF installs, carries out the PCC strategy, and reports dependent event, with the mutual charge information of charge system.
PCRF gives BBERF by the Gxx interface with QoS (QoS, Quality of Service) rule downloading, the mutual charge information of BBERF discord charge system, the reporting of only responsible bearing binding and dependent event.AF provides business information by Rx interface to PCRF, and SPR has preserved the business information that the user contracts, and PCRF can be by the Sp interface to the signatory business information of SPR inquiring user.PCEF sends to Online Charging System (OSC by the Gy interface with online charging information, Online ChargingSystem) statistics of responsible online charging, by the Gz interface offline charging information is sent to off-line accounting system (OFCS, Offline Charging System).
In described PCC framework, PCRF can dynamically issue the PCC strategy and give PCEF, comprises the information of QoS and charging in the policy information.The business information that the user contracts among bearer related information that the service related information that PCRF provides according to AF, PCEF report and the SPR is formulated the PCC strategy.
Need to prove that embodiment is that example describes with the PCC framework in the EPS system applies among the present invention, but is not limited thereto, suitable equally for other communication system of introducing the PCC framework, because method is similar with flow process, repeat no more herein.
Embodiment one
It is that example describes that present embodiment inserts with visit ground, as shown in Figure 3, in as above network system, the management of information method relevant to the charging of described UE, as shown in Figure 4:
Step 401, UE initiate professional, and the offline charging functional sequence is initiated in the success of PCC rule downloading;
Step 402, in described process of service execution, the visit earth mat closes and to report the relevant information of chargeing to give VPCRF;
Wherein said visit ground gateway can be PCEF and/or BBERF.
Step 403, in the trigger condition that reports of relevant information of satisfy chargeing, described VPCRF sends the relevant information of described charging to visit ground OFCS with HPCRF.
Wherein said VPCRF can be the charge information of non-format of billing to the relevant information of charging that described HPCRF sends, and also can be the charge information of arrangement back format of billing.
The trigger condition that reports of the information that wherein said charging is relevant can comprise:
Professional flow reaches the traffic threshold that sets in advance;
For example, when disposing described UE the GPRS flow reaching 0.5M in carrying out described business procedure, report the relevant information of described charging.
Professional execution duration reaches the time threshold that sets in advance;
For example, dispose described UE and when the air time reaches 2 minutes, report the relevant information of described charging.
The system time of network system reaches the time that sets in advance;
For example, dispose described UE and report the relevant information of described charging during for integral point at the system time on visit ground.
The rate of the business that described UE carries out changes;
For example, described UE adopts the block meter rate mode in the business of carrying out, if should change between the message area of business rate, the professional rate of this business can corresponding changing.Carry out in the business procedure at described UE, the professional rate that disposes this business reports the relevant information of described charging when changing.
Described UE carries out information updating, comprises that the position is upgraded, access style upgrades, the time zone is upgraded or IP connects Access Network (IP-CAN) session updates;
Service ending.
Step 404, in the trigger condition that reports of relevant information of satisfy chargeing, described VPCRF sends the relevant information of described charging to HPCRF.
Step 405, described HPCRF send the relevant information of described charging to ownership place OFCS;
In described process of service execution, repeating step 402～405.
Step 406, described professional the execution when finishing, described visit ground gateway sends the relevant information of whole chargings of described business to described VPCRF, and notifies described VPCRF this service ending;
Step 407, described VPCRF send the relevant information of described whole charging to described visit ground OFCS with described HPCRF, and notify this time service ending.
Step 408, described HPCRF send the relevant information of described whole charging to described ownership place OFCS, and notify this time service ending.
In network system provided by the invention, after the sending direction recipient sent message, described recipient can send response message, notified the transmission situation of this message.For example, described VPCRF sends the relevant information of described offline charging to described HPCRF, after described HPCRF receives the relevant information of described offline charging, sends response message to VPCRF.
The message communicating granularity of this embodiment is that example describes with the business data flow of described UE, but be not limited thereto, for the whole business data flows under one group of business data flow of described UE, the IP-CAN session, the business data flow under the UE APN, or whole business data flows of UE all are suitable for, because of method and flow process are similar, repeat no more herein.
Embodiment two
Present embodiment is that example describes with the ownership place access, as shown in Figure 5, in as above network system, the management of information method relevant to the charging of described UE, as shown in Figure 6:
Step 601, UE initiate professional, and the offline charging functional sequence is initiated in the success of PCC rule downloading;
Step 602, in described process of service execution, the visit earth mat closes and to report the relevant information of chargeing to give VPCRF;
Wherein said visit ground gateway is BBERF.
Step 603, in the trigger condition that reports of relevant information of satisfy chargeing, described VPCRF sends the relevant information of described charging to HPCRF.
Wherein said VPCRF can be the charge information of non-format of billing to the relevant information of charging that described HPCRF sends, and also can be the charge information of the format of billing after the arrangement.
Wherein triggering VPCRF can comprise to the trigger condition of the relevant information of the charging of described HPCRF transmission:
Professional flow reaches the traffic threshold that sets in advance;
For example, when disposing described UE the GPRS flow reaching 0.5M in carrying out described business procedure, report the relevant information of described charging.
Professional execution duration reaches the time threshold that sets in advance;
For example, dispose described UE and when the air time reaches 2 minutes, report the relevant information of described charging.
The system time of network system reaches the time that sets in advance;
For example, dispose described UE and report the relevant information of described charging during for integral point at the system time on visit ground.
The rate of the business that described UE carries out changes;
For example, described UE adopts the block meter rate mode in the business of carrying out, if should change between the message area of business rate, the professional rate of this business can corresponding changing.Carry out in the business procedure at described UE, the professional rate that disposes this business reports the relevant information of described charging when changing.
Described UE carries out information updating, comprises that the position is upgraded, access style upgrades, the time zone is upgraded or IP connects Access Network (IP-CAN) session updates;
Service ending.
Step 604, in the trigger condition that reports of relevant information of satisfy chargeing, described PCEF sends the relevant information of chargeing to described HPCRF;
It is similar to trigger condition in the step 603 to the trigger condition of the relevant information of the charging of described HPCRF transmission wherein to trigger PCEF, repeats no more herein.
Step 605, described HPCRF send the relevant information of described charging to ownership place OFCS;
The information that wherein said charging is relevant comprises the relevant information of charging that VPCRF and PCEF send to described HPCRF.
Wherein step 602～603 are separate with step 604, unfixing trigger sequence successively.
In described process of service execution, repeating step 602～605.
Step 606, described professional the execution when finishing, described visit ground gateway sends the relevant information of whole chargings of described business to described VPCRF, and notifies described VPCRF this service ending;
Step 607, described VPCRF send the relevant information of described whole charging to described HPCRF, and notify this time service ending.
Step 608, described professional the execution when finishing, described PCEF sends the relevant information of whole chargings of described business to described VPCRF, and notifies described HPCRF this service ending;
Step 609, described HPCRF send the relevant information of described whole charging to described ownership place OFCS, and notify this time service ending.
In network system provided by the invention, after the sending direction recipient sent request, described recipient can send response, notified the state of this request.For example, described VPCRF sends the relevant information of described offline charging to described HPCRF, after described HPCRF receives the relevant information of described offline charging, sends response message, notifies the relevant information of the described offline charging of described VPCRF to send successfully.
The message communicating granularity of this embodiment is that example describes with the business data flow of described UE, but be not limited thereto, for the whole business data flows under one group of business data flow of described UE, the IP-CAN session, the business data flow under the UE APN, or whole business data flows of UE all are suitable for, because of method and flow process are similar, repeat no more herein.
Method provided by the invention transmits the relevant information of chargeing between visit ground PCRF and the ownership place PCRF, guarantees that ownership place and visit ground can get access to complete charge information, and accurate accounting checking is chargeed, reasonable purpose of settling accounts thereby reach.
A kind of roam charge system comprises: visit ground strategy and charging regulation function entity (PCRF), ownership place PCRF, user, charge system,
Visit ground strategy and charging regulation function entity (PCRF), be used for ownership place PCRF between transmit the relevant information of chargeing;
Charge system is used for the information relevant according to the described charging that transmits, and realizes chargeing.
Further, described visit ground PCRF transmits the relevant information of described charging by the S9 interface between local and the described ownership place PCRF.
Further, described visit ground PCRF is by described ownership place PCRF and the relevant information of the mutual described charging of described ownership place off-line accounting system (OFCS).
Described system can further include:
When roaming visit ground inserted, visit ground PCRF sent the relevant information of chargeing to described visit ground OFCS; Or:
When roaming visit ground inserted, visit ground PCRF sent the relevant information of chargeing to described visit ground OFCS, and visit ground PCRF sends the relevant information of chargeing by ownership place PCRF to described ownership place OFCS.
Described system can further include:
When the roaming ownership place inserted, visit ground PCRF sent the relevant information of chargeing by ownership place PCRF to described ownership place OFCS; And/or ownership place PCRF sends the relevant information of chargeing to the affiliated ownership place OFCS that states.
Further, described visit ground PCRF sends the relevant information of described charging when satisfying following arbitrary condition, comprising:
Professional flow reaches the traffic threshold that sets in advance;
Professional execution duration reaches the time threshold that sets in advance;
The system time of network system reaches the moment that sets in advance;
Professional rate changes;
Terminal is carried out information updating, comprises that the position is upgraded, access style upgrades, the time zone is upgraded or IP connects Access Network (IP-CAN) session updates;
Service ending.
Further, the information that described charging is relevant obtains by following one or more entities, comprising: described visit ground PCRF, strategy and charging execution function entity PCEF or bearing binding and event reporting function entity (BBERF).
System according to claim 16, it is characterized in that, the communication information granularity of the information that described charging is relevant comprise following one or more, comprising: whole business data flows of a business data flow, one group of business data flow, whole business data flows of an IP-CAN session, an access point or whole business data flows of described terminal.
Further, the information that described charging is relevant comprises and comprises following one or more: professional flow, professional execution duration, the incident in the process of service execution, professional service identification, professional rate group id, professional access style, professional time-zone information.
Transmit the relevant information of chargeing between the system provided by the invention, visit ground PCRF and ownership place PCRF, guarantee that ownership place and visit ground can get access to complete charge information, accurate accounting checking is chargeed, reasonable purpose of settling accounts thereby reach.
One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or part of step that realizes the foregoing description is to instruct relevant hardware to finish by program, described program can be stored in a kind of computer-readable recording medium, this program comprises one of step or its combination of method embodiment when carrying out.
In addition, each functional unit in each embodiment of the present invention can adopt the form of hardware to realize, also can adopt the form of software function module to realize.If described integrated module realizes with the form of software function module and during as independently production marketing or use, also can be stored in the computer read/write memory medium.
The above-mentioned storage medium of mentioning can be a read-only memory, disk or CD etc.
The above; only be the specific embodiment of the present invention, but protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, anyly is familiar with those skilled in the art in the technical scope that the present invention discloses; can expect easily changing or replacing, all should be encompassed within protection scope of the present invention.Therefore, protection scope of the present invention should be as the criterion with the described protection range of claim.
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1. a roam charging method is characterized in that, comprising:
During roaming, the relevant information of transmission charging between visit ground strategy and charging regulation function entity (PCRF) and the ownership place PCRF;
The information that off-line accounting system is relevant according to the described charging that transmits realizes chargeing.
2. method according to claim 1 is characterized in that, described visit ground PCRF transmits the relevant information of described charging by the S9 interface between local and the described ownership place PCRF.
3. method according to claim 1 and 2 is characterized in that, described visit ground PCRF is by described ownership place PCRF and the relevant information of the mutual described charging of described ownership place off-line accounting system (OFCS).
4. method according to claim 3 is characterized in that, also comprises:
When roaming visit ground inserted, visit ground PCRF sent the relevant information of chargeing to described visit ground OFCS; Or:
When roaming visit ground inserted, visit ground PCRF sent the relevant information of chargeing to described visit ground OFCS, and visit ground PCRF sends the relevant information of chargeing by ownership place PCRF to described ownership place OFCS.
5. method according to claim 3 is characterized in that, also comprises:
When the roaming ownership place inserted, visit ground PCRF sent the relevant information of chargeing by ownership place PCRF to described ownership place OFCS; And/or ownership place PCRF sends the relevant information of chargeing to affiliated ownership place OFCS.
6. according to claim 1,2,4 or 5 described methods, it is characterized in that described visit ground PCRF sends the relevant information of described charging when satisfying following arbitrary condition, comprising:
Professional flow reaches the traffic threshold that sets in advance;
Professional execution duration reaches the time threshold that sets in advance;
The system time of network system reaches the moment that sets in advance;
Professional rate changes;
Terminal is carried out information updating, comprises that the position is upgraded, access style upgrades, the time zone is upgraded or IP connects Access Network (IP-CAN) session updates;
Service ending.
7. method according to claim 6, it is characterized in that, the information that described charging is relevant obtains by following one or more entities, comprising: described visit ground PCRF, strategy and charging execution function entity PCEF or bearing binding and event reporting function entity (BBERF).
8. method according to claim 7, it is characterized in that, the communication information granularity of the information that described charging is relevant comprise following one or more, comprising: whole business data flows of a business data flow, one group of business data flow, whole business data flows of an IP-CAN session, an access point or whole business data flows of described terminal.
9. according to claim 7 or 8 described methods, it is characterized in that, the information that described charging is relevant comprises and comprises following one or more: professional flow, professional execution duration, the incident in the process of service execution, professional service identification, professional rate group id, professional access style, professional time-zone information.
10. roam charge system comprises: visit ground strategy and charging regulation function entity (PCRF), ownership place PCRF, user, charge system, it is characterized in that,
Visit ground strategy and charging regulation function entity (PCRF), be used for ownership place PCRF between transmit the relevant information of chargeing;
Charge system is used for the information relevant according to the described charging that transmits, and realizes chargeing.
11. system according to claim 10 is characterized in that, described visit ground PCRF transmits the relevant information of described charging by the S9 interface between local and the described ownership place PCRF.
12., it is characterized in that described visit ground PCRF is by described ownership place PCRF and the relevant information of the mutual described charging of described ownership place off-line accounting system (OFCS) according to claim 10 or 11 described systems.
13. system according to claim 12 is characterized in that, also comprises:
When roaming visit ground inserted, visit ground PCRF sent the relevant information of chargeing to described visit ground OFCS; Or:
When roaming visit ground inserted, visit ground PCRF sent the relevant information of chargeing to described visit ground OFCS, and visit ground PCRF sends the relevant information of chargeing by ownership place PCRF to described ownership place OFCS.
14. system according to claim 12 is characterized in that, also comprises:
When the roaming ownership place inserted, visit ground PCRF sent the relevant information of chargeing by ownership place PCRF to described ownership place OFCS; And/or ownership place PCRF sends the relevant information of chargeing to the affiliated ownership place OFCS that states.
15., it is characterized in that described visit ground PCRF sends the relevant information of described charging when satisfying following arbitrary condition, comprising according to claim 10,11,13 or 14 described systems:
Professional flow reaches the traffic threshold that sets in advance;
Professional execution duration reaches the time threshold that sets in advance;
The system time of network system reaches the moment that sets in advance;
Professional rate changes;
Terminal is carried out information updating, comprises that the position is upgraded, access style upgrades, the time zone is upgraded or IP connects Access Network (IP-CAN) session updates;
Service ending.
16. system according to claim 15, it is characterized in that, the information that described charging is relevant obtains by following one or more entities, comprising: described visit ground PCRF, strategy and charging execution function entity PCEF or bearing binding and event reporting function entity (BBERF).
17. system according to claim 16, it is characterized in that, the communication information granularity of the information that described charging is relevant comprise following one or more, comprising: whole business data flows of a business data flow, one group of business data flow, whole business data flows of an IP-CAN session, an access point or whole business data flows of described terminal.
18. according to claim 16 or 17 described systems, it is characterized in that, the information that described charging is relevant comprises and comprises following one or more: professional flow, professional execution duration, the incident in the process of service execution, professional service identification, professional rate group id, professional access style, professional time-zone information.
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