KR20050026191A - Telecommunication system using single-rate charging service, and single-rate charging apparatus and method therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

A telecommunication system using a single-rate charging service for a telephone service, and a device and a method for processing the single-rate charging system are provided to apply a single-rate charge to a service user by analyzing a use propensity characteristic of the service user. A local exchange(10) generates charging information of a service subscriber by connecting with the telephone. The CAMA(Central Automatic Message Accounting)(20) manages information including service call use charge details, a service call time, and a call number of the subscriber by collecting the charging information from the local exchange. A single-rate charge processor(30) analyzes service use propensity/distribution of the subscriber by collecting the information of the subscriber from the local exchange, calculates a standard call number and a standard charge of the single-rate charge by selecting a service group to apply the single-rate charge, and offers it to the local exchange and the CAMA.

Description

Telecommunication system using single-rate charging service, and single-rate charging apparatus and method therefor}

The present invention relates to a communication system to which single agent billing is applied, and to a single agent billing processing device and method therefor. The present invention relates to a communication system and an apparatus and method for processing a single charge for the same.

Landline telephone services include local and long-distance telephone services, depending on the calling area, and LM (Land to Mobile) services, intelligent network services, and other services, depending on the type of service.

The billing method of the fixed line service is configured differently for each service, and in general, it maintains a call zone distance plan in which the standard unit fee varies according to the call zone distance.

However, this type of billing is derived from the conventional cost model, which requires more investment cost as the distance of the communication zone increases in the construction of the communication equipment. At the time when various services are provided according to the type of service, there is a problem that the cost model proportional to the distance of the telephone range is inefficient.

In order to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to analyze the characteristics of the propensity to use the landline telephone service user to apply a single billing method to the service user.

To this end, the communication system according to the present invention comprises: a local exchange connected with a landline telephone to generate billing information of a service subscriber; A centralized billing processing device which collects billing information from the local exchange and manages information including a service call usage fee history, a service call time, and a call frequency; Collects information including the service call charge history, service call time, and the frequency of the call from the centralized charging processing device, analyzes the service tendency and distribution of the subscriber, and selects the service group to which the single charge is applicable. Comprising a single billing processing device for calculating the billing frequency and billing rate of the billing, providing information about the billing frequency and billing rate to the local exchange and the centralized billing processing unit,

Such a unitary billing processing device may include: an information collecting unit for collecting information including a service call usage fee history, a service call time, and a call frequency from a centralized billing processing device; By using the information on the service call charge history, service call time, and call frequency of the subscriber of the information collector, the information on the call charge, call time, and call frequency used by each service is separated, and the service tendency of the subscriber is used. And a tendency analysis unit for each service analyzing the distribution; A single system billing information calculating unit which selects a service group to which a single system billing is applicable based on information on a service usage tendency and distribution of the subscriber analyzed by the service propensity analysis unit for each service, and calculates a base frequency and a base rate of the single system billing; And a single billing information providing unit for providing information on the reference frequency and the reference rate to the local exchange and the centralized billing processing unit.

Collect billing information of a landline telephone subscriber; Using the collected billing information, separating information on the call charge, call duration, and call frequency used for each service, and analyzing the service usage tendency and distribution of the subscriber; Selecting a service group to which a single billing charge is applicable based on the analyzed information on the service usage tendency and distribution of the subscriber, and calculating a reference frequency and a base fee of the single billing; It is characterized by providing information on the reference frequency and the reference fee.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram of a communication system in which a single billing is applied to a wireline telephone service according to the present invention.

Single system billing is a method of charging the whole country in a single currency zone by unifying the base rate and frequency cycle differentiated by service and distance, and the communication system to which such single system billing is applied is shown as Local Exchange (10). ) And a central automatic message accounting (CAMA) 20 and a monolithic billing processing device 30.

The local exchange 10 has a frequency recording device that accepts subscribers of wireline telephone service and counts talk time used by subscribers in unit time periods, and generates billing information.

The billing information generated by the local exchange 10 includes customer information, service type, talk time, frequency of use, and the like. The local exchange 10 uses the billing information generated in this way to collect the billing information of subscribers nationwide. Send online to device 20.

The centralized billing processing device 20 generates a billing bill by calculating a call usage fee for each subscriber by using billing information collected from local exchangers 10 around the country. In addition, the single billing processing unit 30 provides information such as service call usage fee history, service call time, and call frequency used by the entire subscriber.

The single payment processing device 30 analyzes the service usage tendency and distribution of the subscribers using the call information of all subscribers provided from the centralized charging processing device 20, selects a service group to which the single payment is applicable, and calculates the reference frequency. Calculate the base rate. In addition, the calculated single payment information is provided to the local exchange 10 and the centralized charging processing device 20 so that the actual single payment is made from the subscriber and the fee for the single payment is made.

2 is a detailed block diagram of the single agent charging processing apparatus 30 according to the present invention.

The single agent charging processing device 30 includes an information collecting unit 32, a usage tendency analyzing unit 34 for each service, a single agent charging information calculating unit 36, and a single agent charging information providing unit 38.

The information collecting unit 32 collects information such as service call usage fee details, service call time, and frequency of calls used by all subscribers from the centralized charging processing device 30.

The service propensity analysis unit 34 for each service separates the call charge, call time, and call frequency information used for each service from the information collected by the information collection unit 32, and uses the service fee. Analyze service usage tendencies and distribution.

The single fee charging information calculation unit 36 selects a service group to which single fee charging is applicable according to the service usage trend information of the subscriber analyzed by the service propensity analysis part 34 for each service, and calculates a reference frequency of single fee charging. Then, the base rate of the single fee is calculated using the talk time and the frequency of the selected service group.

The single agent charging information providing unit 38 provides the single agent charging information calculated by the single agent charging information calculating unit 36 to the local exchange 10 and the centralized charging processing device 20.

The processing procedure of the single agent charging processing device 30 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 3.

In order to calculate the single payment information, the single payment processing device 30 first collects the charging information of the entire landline service subscriber from the centralized charging processing device 20 in the information collecting unit 32. The collected billing information includes information such as service call usage fee history, service call time, and call frequency used by the entire subscriber (S2).

Then, the service propensity analysis unit 34 for each service separates the call rate, call time, and call frequency information used for each service from the information collected in the information collection unit 32 for the call rate used by the subscriber. Analyze the service usage propensity and distribution of (S4).

Using the analysis information on the usage tendency and distribution of the service, the single fee charging information calculation unit 36 selects a service group to which single fee charging is applicable (S6).

And the reference frequency period A of monolithic charging is computed (S8). The calculation of the reference frequency period A of monolithic charging will be described in more detail as shown in FIG. 4.

First, the call time (a) of the entire subscriber for each service is calculated (S14). Similarly, the call frequency (b) and the call fee (c) of all subscribers are calculated for each service (S16 and S18). And the average occupancy time (d) of the subscriber is calculated using the total talk time (a) and the total call frequency (b) (S20). That is, the average occupancy time d is as follows.

Average occupancy time (d) = total talk time (a) / total frequency (b)

The single fee charging information calculation unit 36 calculates a reference frequency period A of single fee charging with reference to the average occupancy time (d) and the total call charge (c) (S22).

Meanwhile, in FIG. 3, when the reference frequency period A of the single agent charging is calculated, the single agent charging information calculation unit 36 calculates the reference fee B of the single agent charging (S10). The calculation of the base rate B of monolithic charging will be described in more detail as shown in FIG. 5.

First, the total frequency (e) is recalculated for the single service group selected in S6. That is, the total currency frequency (e) is recalculated using the standard frequency cycle (A) of the single system billing calculated in S8 for the single system service group (S24). In addition, the reference fee (B) of single billing is calculated using the total number of calls (e) recalculated and the call rates (c) of all subscribers calculated in step S18 (S26). That is, the reference fee B is as follows.

Base Rate (B) = Total Call Rate (c) / Total Call Count (e)

In FIG. 3, the single agent charging information single agent charging information providing unit 38 transmits the single agent charging information A + B calculated by the single agent charging information calculating unit 36 to the local exchanger 10 and the centralized charging processing device 20. To provide.

As described above, according to the present invention, if a single fee charging method is applied to a subscriber of a landline telephone service, the area code of the landline telephone number assigned to each call area is not required, and thus the use number is simplified, and the integrated number is integrated into the landline telephone number. With the introduction of the number and portability, it is effective to provide the subscriber with the convenience of single fee structure and rate reduction.

In addition, on the carrier side, the fixed-line billing service is changed to single billing, resulting in increased revenue and competitiveness compared to mobile and Internet phones.

1 is a block diagram of a communication system to which a single charge is applied to a landline telephone service according to the present invention.

Figure 2 is a detailed block diagram of a single agent billing processing apparatus according to the present invention.

3 is a flow chart of a single agent billing processing method according to the present invention.

4 is a reference frequency calculation flowchart of single agent charging according to the present invention.

Figure 5 is a flow chart of the standard fee calculation of single agent billing according to the present invention.

Claims (10)

A local exchange connected to the landline to generate billing information of the service subscriber; A centralized billing processing device that collects the billing information from the local exchange and manages information including a service call usage fee history, a service talk time, and a call frequency; Collects information including the service call usage fee history, the service call time, and the frequency of the call from the centralized billing processing device to analyze the service usage tendency and distribution of the subscriber, and to apply single fee charging. And selecting a group to calculate a reference frequency and a reference rate of the single agent charge, and provide a single agent charge processing device that provides information about the reference frequency and the reference charge to the local exchange and the centralized charge processing device. A communication system to which single fee charging is applied. The method of claim 1, The single agent charging processing device, An information collector configured to collect information including the service call usage fee history, the service call time, and the call frequency of the subscriber from the centralized charging processing device; By using the information on the service call charge history, the service call time, and the call frequency of the subscriber of the information collecting unit, information about the call charge, call time, and call frequency used for each service is separated and the A service tendency analysis unit for analyzing service tendency and distribution of subscribers; Single billing information calculating unit for selecting a service group to which a single billing is applicable based on the information on the service tendency and distribution of the subscriber analyzed by the service tendency analysis unit to calculate the reference frequency and the standard fee of the single billing ; And And a single fee charging information providing unit configured to provide the reference frequency and the base fee information to the local exchange and the centralized billing processing device. The method of claim 2, The reference frequency calculates the average occupancy time of all the subscribers using the talk time of all the subscribers by service and the call frequency of all the subscribers by the service, and refers to the average occupancy time and the call rates of all the subscribers by the service. A communication system to which single agent charging is applied, characterized in that it is calculated. The method of claim 3, wherein The standard fee is calculated by referring to the frequency of call of the entire subscriber for the selected service group, and is calculated by referring to the frequency of call and the call rate of all subscribers for each service. This applies to communication systems. In the information processing device of single charge billing applied to landline telephone service, An information collecting unit for collecting charging information of the wireline telephone subscriber; A service propensity analysis unit that separates information on a call charge, a call duration, and a call frequency used for each service by using the billing information of the information collector, and analyzes the service propensity and distribution of the subscriber; Single billing information calculating unit for selecting a service group to which a single billing is applicable based on the information on the service tendency and distribution of the subscriber analyzed by the service tendency analysis unit to calculate the reference frequency and the standard fee of the single billing ; And And a single agent charging information providing unit configured to provide information about the reference frequency and the reference rate. The method of claim 5, The reference frequency calculates the average occupancy time of all the subscribers using the talk time of all the subscribers by service and the call frequency of all the subscribers by the service, and refers to the average occupancy time and the call rates of all the subscribers by the service. Single agent billing processing device, characterized in that calculated. The method of claim 6, The standard fee is calculated by referring to the frequency of call of the entire subscriber for the selected service group, and is calculated by referring to the frequency of call and the call rate of all subscribers for each service. Processing unit. In the information processing method of single charge billing applied to landline telephone service, A first step of collecting charging information of the wireline telephone subscriber; A second process of separating information on a call charge, a call duration, and a call frequency used for each service by using the collected billing information, and analyzing a service usage tendency and distribution of the subscriber; A third step of selecting a service group to which single fee charging is applicable based on the analyzed information on service usage tendency and distribution of the subscriber to calculate a reference frequency and a base fee of the single fee charging; And And a fourth process of providing information on the reference frequency and the reference fee. The method of claim 8, The third process, A first step of calculating call time of all subscribers by service, call frequency of all subscribers by service, and call charges of all subscribers by service; A second step of calculating an average occupancy time of all the subscribers using the call times of all the subscribers by service and the frequency of calls of all the subscribers by the service; And And a third step of calculating the reference frequency with reference to the average occupancy time and call rates of all subscribers for each service. The method of claim 9, The third process, A first step of recalculating the total toll frequency using the reference frequency for the service group promoted; And a second step of calculating the reference rate with reference to the recalculated frequency and the call rates of all subscribers for each service.