KR20030026700A - System for monitoring billing information of billing processing device for ess - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A billing processing apparatus of an exchange and a billing extraction supervising system are provided to analyze immediately billing data extracted from a total electronic exchange system and then output on a graphic user interface, thereby capable of outputting, searching and supervising information on billing data in detail. CONSTITUTION: A general billing supervising unit(110) measures an amount of billing data extraction of an exchange(10) periodically, then indicates the measured result to a billing extraction supervising graphic user interface(GUI)(300) and an operator's terminal, transmits an alarm message to an EOCIMS(Ess Online Centralized Management System)(200) when generating an error, collects statistics and processes billing data according to a call type, a user type, use and error particulars and then indicates the processed result to the operator's terminal. A specific billing supervising unit(120) receives a specific supervising condition and indicates the billing data supervising result meeting to the condition to the operator's terminal. A billing search unit(130) receives a specific search condition and indicates the billing data search result meeting to the condition to the operator's terminal.

Description

System for monitoring billing information of billing processing device for ess}

The present invention relates to a charge extraction monitoring system of an exchange charge processing device, and more particularly, measures the total amount of extraction of the charge data received from the exchange and statistics the charge data by call type, usage history, usage type, and error history. By processing and monitoring or retrieving specific billing data and displaying it through the operator's terminal and graphical user interface (GUI), the extraction status of billing data can be easily grasped, and if an error exists, the operator can send an alarm message to EOCMS. The present invention relates to a billing extraction monitoring system of an exchange billing device that can determine whether a billing function is abnormal.

The conventional billing apparatus collects billing data from an electronic switch and sends it to a billing center online, detects whether the billing data is generated, and reads it when the billing data is not generated. Send it.

However, the above conventional billing processing apparatus reads only whether billing is generated and generates an alarm message when billing is not generated. If billing data of a particular call is not generated among several calls, it cannot be determined. There is a problem that data may be lost, and whether or not to generate billing data for a particular call is found at the time of billing settlement.

In addition, such a conventional system serves only as a forwarder of billing data, which stores billing data in a final storage medium and transmits the billing data to a billing center in charge of final billing, and the operator can view detailed information about billing data. The disadvantage is that it can't be.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve all the disadvantages and problems pointed out in the conventional billing processing device as described above, and immediately analyze the billing (telephone usage fee) data extracted from the electronic switching system and a graphical user interface Display, search and monitor detailed information of billing data including whether billing data is generated or not for specific calls, so that the operator can know it, and alert message in case of billing data abnormality. Operator to make it easy for the operator to determine whether there is an abnormality in the exchange charging function, to check and take action in the shortest time, and to conveniently retrieve the extracted billing data such as the analysis of the review data. It is an object of the present invention to provide a matching function.

1 is a schematic network diagram of an exchange charging processing system.

Figure 2 is a block diagram for explaining the charge extraction monitoring system of the present invention.

3 is a driving flowchart of the entire charging monitoring unit according to the present invention.

4 is a driving flowchart of a specific charging monitoring unit according to the present invention.

5 is a driving flowchart of a charging search unit according to the present invention;

((Explanation of symbols for main parts of drawing))

10. Exchanger 20. Charge processing device

30.MIH Network 40.H / C (Host Collector)

50.P / B (Prebilling system) 60,200. EOCMS (Central Management System)

110. Total billing monitor 111. Alarm message generator

112. Accounting extraction statistics 113. Statistics by call type

114. Statistics Department by Usage Type 115. Statistics Department by Usage History

116. Statistics Department by Error History 120. Specific Charge Monitoring Unit

130. Billing Search Unit 300. Billing Extraction Monitoring GUI

The object of the present invention is to measure the amount of data extraction of the exchange, display on the extraction and monitoring graphical user interface (GUI) and the operator terminal and transmit an alarm message to the EOCMS when an error occurs, call type, usage type, usage history and error A total billing monitoring unit for processing billing data according to the details and displaying the billing data on an operator terminal; A specific billing monitoring unit that receives a specific monitoring condition and displays a billing data monitoring result that meets the condition on the operator terminal and a billing search that displays a billing data search result that meets the condition on the operator terminal by receiving a specific search condition It is achieved by the billing extraction monitoring system of the exchange billing processing apparatus including the unit 130.

The billing extraction monitoring system of the present invention, through periodic monitoring of the billing data extracted from the exchanger to the billing processing device (BPDE) to enable the operator to recognize the abnormality of billing production and extraction, analysis of the urgent review data, etc. It is a system that makes it easy to search extracted billing data.

On the other hand, the total billing monitoring unit and the billing extraction amount statistics unit for measuring the billing data extraction amount per exchange and display on the GUI and operator terminal; A call type statistics unit for performing statistical processing of billing data for each call type; A usage unit for each type of usage that searches for the existence of billing data for each type of usage and displays it on the operator terminal; A statistics unit for each usage history that searches for the existence of billing data by usage history such as usage time and displays the same on the operator terminal; A statistics unit for each error detail that searches for the presence or absence of an error for each field of billing data and displays it on an operator terminal; It consists of an alarm message generating unit for generating an alarm message according to an error and notifying the EOCMS in the presence or absence of a search result error.

Details of the above object and technical configuration of the present invention and the effects thereof according to the present invention will be more clearly understood by the following detailed description through the accompanying drawings.

First, Fig. 1 is a schematic network diagram of an exchange charging processing system.

As shown, the exchanger charging processing system includes an introductory exchanger 11, an exchanger 10 such as a TDX-10A exchanger 12 and a TDX-100 exchanger 13; A Billing Processing Device for Ess (BPDE) 20 including a Transmission Device (TD) 21, a Charging Data Transmitter (CDT) 22, and an Extended Interface Processor (EXIP) 23; A MIH network 30 for connecting the charging processing device 20 to a host collector (H / C) 40; H / C 40 collecting the billing files from the billing processing device 20 through the MIH network 30 and P / B (Prebilling) for receiving and analyzing billing files from the H / C 40 ( 50); It consists of Ess Online Centralized Management System (EOCMS) 60 to manage the exchange equipment.

The charging processing device 20 is composed of a TD 21, a CDT 22 and EXIP 23, the TD 21 is the charging data extracted from the introduction exchange 11, such as M10CN, NO.10A It manages and transmits it to the MIH network 30, the CDT 22 is connected to the TDX-10A (12) to extract the charge generated in the exchange 12, and manages the extracted charge data and the MIH network (30) EXIP 23 is connected to the TDX-100 (13) exchange to extract and manage billing.

In this case, the billing processing device 20 according to the present invention measures the total amount of extraction of the billing data extracted from each exchanger 10 and statistically processes the billing data for each classification to display on the billing extraction monitoring graphical user interface (GUI) and In addition, specific charging data can be retrieved or monitored and an alarm message is generated when an error occurs and transmitted to the EOCMS 60.

The EOCMS 60 collects and manages charge extraction related alarms according to the charge extraction monitoring function of each BPDE (Billing Processing Device for Ess).

On the other hand, the billing processing device 20 is configured to be redundant in the ACTIVE and STANDBY, so that if the ACTIVE does not operate by using a separate hard disk, it is switched to the STANDBY system so that there is no interruption of the system operation and damage in case of hard disk failure It is configured to be minimized.

Next, the H / C 40 checks the MIH network 30 for the billing file transmitted through the TD 21, the CDT 22, and the EXIP 23, which are the billing processing devices connected to each of the exchangers 11-13. The data is collected and transmitted to the P / B 50 to analyze the billing file accurately without any modification or loss of data.

At this time, the billing files transmitted to the H / C 40 according to the type of each exchanger is transferred to the P / B system 50 as it is if the normal charging through the verification process in the H / C 40, abnormal charging In case of requesting re-transmission to the accounting intermediary device and generating an alarm so that the operator can perform the necessary work, it is processed according to the verification procedure and transmitted to the P / B system 50, and the collection progress of the billing file is It is displayed on the GUI screen.

Therefore, the H / C 40 is a system that performs important tasks such as collecting, verifying, and transferring the billing files extracted from each exchange, so that the other system that is waiting when the function of one system is impossible is performed. All devices are configured in redundancy so that the system can continue to work.

Next, Fig. 2 is a block diagram for explaining the charge extraction monitoring system of the present invention constituting the exchange charge processing system as described above.

As shown, the billing extraction monitoring system 100 of the billing processing apparatus of the present invention is configured to include the entire billing monitoring unit 110, the specific billing monitoring unit 120 and the billing search unit 130.

At this time, the total billing monitoring unit 110 is an alarm message generating unit 111, billing extraction amount statistics unit 112, call type statistics unit 113, use type statistics unit 114, by use history The statistics unit 115 and the error breakdown statistics unit 116, and the function of each block is as follows.

First, the alarm message generating unit 111 generates a corresponding alarm message and displays an alarm in the charge extraction monitoring GUI 300 and transmits the error history to the EOCMS 200 when a billing error occurs or is delayed when the billing history is measured. .

The billing extraction amount statistics unit 112 periodically measures the extraction amount of the billing data (D) per interlocking exchange 10 in units of bytes, and then statistically processes and graphs and displays it on the GUI 300.

The call type statistics unit 113 retrieves and classifies billing data based on the types of calls such as voice calls, ISDN calls, packet calls, packet network interworking calls, IGS calls, and SSP calls.

The usage unit statistics unit 114 searches for the presence or absence of billing data for each type of use, such as outgoing calls, group calls, home calls, city calls, long distance calls, and international calls, and performs statistical processing.

The statistics unit 115 by usage history searches for the existence of billing data by usage history such as call history for a predetermined time and performs statistical processing.

Statistics section 116 by error history to process the statistics by searching for the presence of errors in each field of the billing record, electronic switch such as call number error, call number error, clock time error, clock time error, usage time error ( 10) Detect the error of the billing data collected from 10), classify it by error details and process the statistics

In this case, each billing statistics unit 112 to 116 constituting the entire billing monitoring unit 110 displays the billing data processed by the statistics on the billing extraction monitoring GUI 300 so that an operator can easily grasp the extraction status of billing data. To help.

Next, the specific billing monitoring unit 120 is for monitoring the billing data of a particular call, and monitors the calling number, called number, etc. of the particular call according to a certain monitoring target and monitors the result of the operator matching screen and the billing extraction monitoring GUI (300). Mark it.

In addition, the billing search unit 130 corresponds to the input conditions as the search conditions such as the calling number, the called number, the time clock, the closing time, the search start time, the search end time, long time call, international call is input from the operator Output billing data to be displayed on the operator matching screen and the billing extraction monitoring GUI (300).

Each driving process of the entire charging monitoring unit 110, the specific charging monitoring unit 120, and the charging searching unit 130 according to the present invention will be described with reference to the driving flowchart shown in FIGS. 3 to 5.

3 is a driving flowchart of the entire charging monitoring unit according to the present invention, FIG. 4 is a driving flowchart of a specific charging monitoring unit, and FIG. 5 is a driving flowchart of the charging searching unit 130.

First, as the charging data is extracted from the exchange (step A101), the entire charging monitoring unit 110 determines whether an error exists in the extracted charging data (step A102).

At this time, if an error is detected in the billing data, the billing data is not met, the billing data is not extracted for all calls or specific calls, the caller ID and the caller ID error, the clock time and call time error, and the use time error. The generation unit 111 generates an alarm message according to the type of error (step A103) and transmits it to the EOCMS 200 (step A104) to notify the occurrence of the error.

As the error occurs, the statistics unit 116 for each error history of the total charge monitoring unit 110 performs statistical processing for each of the details of the generated error (step A105) and transmits it to the charge extraction monitoring GUI 300 (step A110). .

On the other hand, if there is no error in the extracted billing data, the billing extraction amount statistics unit 112 of the entire billing monitoring unit 110 measures the extraction amount of billing data per interlocking exchange in bytes unit and statistical processing (step A106) to graph Make up.

In addition, the call type statistics unit 113 retrieves the presence or absence of billing data for each call type such as voice call, packet call, and SSP call and performs statistical processing (step A107).

The statistics unit 114 by usage type statistically processes billing data for each type of use, such as a call prohibited call, a group call, and a city call (step A108). Each billing data is statistically processed (step A109).

The billing extraction statistics data, call type statistics data, call type statistics data, usage type statistics data, usage history statistics data and error details statistical data processed as described above are transmitted to the billing extraction monitoring GUI 300 (step A110). Each data is stored in the directory for each category (A111).

Next, as shown in Figure 4, when the monitoring target of the call number, called number, all calls, etc. for a particular call from the operator is input (step B101), the specific billing monitoring unit 120 generates a drive stop request from the operator It is judged whether or not (step B102).

As a result of the determination, when the driving stop request is generated from the operator, the driving of the charging monitoring unit 120 is stopped, and if the charging monitoring execution stop command is not input from the operator, the charging data is extracted from the exchange (step B103), and The charging monitoring unit 120 determines whether a specific target to be monitored exists in the extracted charging data (step B104).

At this time, if the specific target to be monitored in the extracted billing data, the specific billing monitoring unit 120 outputs the billing monitoring results corresponding to the monitoring target (step B105) and transmits the monitoring result data to the billing extraction monitoring GUI 300 ( Step B106).

The output winding result data is stored as a log file (step B107).

Next, the billing search unit 130 is driven when the billing data is searched from a local or remote terminal. The billing search unit 130 is driven by inputting a search condition from an operator as shown in FIG. 5.

In this case, the search condition may include an outgoing call number, an incoming call number, a clock time, a closing time, a long time call, an international call, and the like. The billing search unit 130 receives a search start time and a search end time for a predetermined time. The billing data corresponding to the conditions of the

When a search condition is input from the operator (step C101), it is determined whether a charging search execution stop command has been input from the operator (step C102).

In this case, when the driving stop request is input from the operator, the driving of the charging searching unit 130 is stopped, and if the stopping request is not input, the charging searching unit 130 determines whether the searching end time input by the operator is determined (C103). In step C104, the charging data according to the condition is searched until the search end time (step C104).

As a result of the search, the charging search unit 130 determines whether a search target call exists (step C105), and outputs a search result when the search target call exists (step C106), and charges output monitoring GUI 300 of the output result data. (Step C107).

At this time, the billing data output according to the above condition is stored as a log file (step C108), and the repetitive search operation is performed until the search end time is reached or the search target call does not exist unless an operation stop request is made by the operator. .

As described above, the billing extraction monitoring system of the present invention is mounted on the billing processing apparatus to constantly monitor whether billing is extracted and if an error occurs, notify the operator and the EOCMS system to perform error checking and processing, and the billing data flow. The data is processed by statistical data to be identified and inferred of abnormality, and it has the function of searching for it when the urgent review data is generated and monitoring specific calls.

Therefore, the billing extraction monitoring system of the exchange billing processing device of the present invention outputs the extraction status of billing data generated by call processing, the number of calls generated by each call, the usage type and the amount of each occurrence and the amount of the error details through the graphical user interface. By monitoring the generation of billing data for a specific call, detecting errors in billing data, outputting them through a graphical user interface, and sending an alarm message to the central management system, the operator can easily grasp the status of extraction of billing data. It is possible to determine whether there is an abnormality in the exchange charging function, and it is effective in compensating the problem of the charging system that generates an alarm by reading only the existing generation of charging, and providing a user interface environment for convenient operation. Output is possible There is an advantage that the accuracy, reliability, flexible management environment and maintenance easier.

Claims (2)

Periodically measures the amount of data extracted from the exchange 10 to display on the charge extraction monitoring graphical user interface (GUI) 300 and the operator terminal and transmits an alarm message to the EOCMS 200 when an error occurs, call type, usage type, A total billing monitoring unit 110 for statistically processing billing data according to usage details and error details and displaying the billing data on an operator terminal; A specific charging monitoring unit 120 which receives a specific monitoring condition and displays the monitoring result of the charging data meeting the conditions on the charging extraction monitoring GUI 300 and the operator terminal; And a billing search unit 130 for displaying the billing extraction monitoring GUI 300 and an operator terminal by outputting a billing data search result corresponding to the condition and receiving a specific search condition. Billing Extraction Monitoring System. According to claim 1, wherein the total billing monitoring unit 110; A charge extraction amount statistics unit 112 which periodically measures and charges the extraction data extraction amount per interlocking exchange 10 and displays the graph on the GUI 300 and displays the extraction amount measurement result numerically on the operator terminal; A call type statistics unit 113 for processing billing data by call types such as voice calls, ISDN calls, packet calls, packet network interworking calls, IGS calls, and SSP calls; A statistical unit 114 for each type of usage that searches for the presence or absence of billing data for each type of use, such as outgoing calls, group calls, home calls, local calls, long distance calls, and international calls, and displays them on the operator terminal; A usage unit statistics unit 115 for searching for the presence or absence of billing data by usage history such as usage time and displaying the same on the operator terminal; An error history statistic unit 116 for retrieving the presence or absence of an error for each field of billing data (D), such as calling number error, called number error, time clock error, clock time error, and usage time error, and displaying on the operator terminal; An alarm message generation unit 111 for generating an alarm message according to an error and notifying the EOCMS 200 when an error existence search result error exists; Charge extraction monitoring system of the exchange billing processing apparatus, characterized in that configured to include.