WO2005050968A1 - Systeme, procede et application gerant l'acces a des services mobiles - Google Patents

Systeme, procede et application gerant l'acces a des services mobiles Download PDF

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WO2005050968A1
WO2005050968A1 PCT/EP2004/052661 EP2004052661W WO2005050968A1 WO 2005050968 A1 WO2005050968 A1 WO 2005050968A1 EP 2004052661 W EP2004052661 W EP 2004052661W WO 2005050968 A1 WO2005050968 A1 WO 2005050968A1
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  • the invention concerns mobile services on a network. More precisely, the present invention relates to a system, a method and an application wherein access to mobile services by a user is controlled by an application running on a mobile station, and where a rating of the services and an account of the user are managed by a billing and rating engine, which is external to the mobile station.
  • the service which may be a voice service, a short message service (SMS) in GSM standard (Global System for Mobile Communications), or a data service for example, is measured and controlled at the network level. Funds are maintained within the network by a billing engine, and are decremented by the network when the service is used. When there is insufficient funds, the network can interrupt the service. Such method however requires a huge integration, and is therefore very expensive.
  • SMS short message service
  • GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
  • the service is measured and controlled within the mobile station, by either a mobile equipment such as a handset, or an identity module.
  • the funds are primarily maintained locally by the mobile station.
  • the mobile station comprises a billing engine, which can rate the service and decrement the funds accordingly.
  • the mobile station has the ability to interrupt the service.
  • Such a method however requires providing a rating engine in the mobile station, and maintaining this rating engine up-to-date with new rating plans.
  • an Advice of Charge which is a function defined in the GSM standard, defines in the smart card an e-purse comprising a first file representing a maximum value of a metered service, and a second file representing a current value of the metered service.
  • AOC Advice of Charge
  • a mobile phone receives E-parameters as part of the setup call message sent by the network, which define the rate of the call.
  • the wireless phone increases the value of the current value of the metered service. When it reaches the maximum value, the call is stopped.
  • Telemac's US patents nos 5577100, 6198915, 6480710 provide a type of prepaid wireless service where the mobile equipment includes an internal billing engine that calculates the amount charged for a call based on locally stored rate/tariff data and deducts that amount funds/amounts stored in the mobile equipment.
  • the rate/tariff data and prepaid funds/amounts can be updated by messages from the billing service/service provider. These messages can be SMS messages.
  • SMS messages can be SMS messages.
  • rate/tariff data includes multiple rating methods (e.g., charge per minutes, charge per bytes) and/or metering methods (e.g., duration of call, volume of data) and where the appropriate rating and metering methods for a specific call are selected based on detected events (e.g., call setup, call begin, call end) is described in Telemac's US patent applications nos. 20020022471,20020022472, and 20020177429.
  • rating methods e.g., charge per minutes, charge per bytes
  • metering methods e.g., duration of call, volume of data
  • Nokia's US patent 5,748,720 describes a service where prepaid funds are stored in a SIM card of a mobile phone.
  • the billing service/service provider can send a "charge information" message to the phone.
  • a prepaid application in the SIM card calculates if there are still enough prepaid funds to continue the call. If the prepaid funds are exhausted, then the prepaid application does not allow the SIM card to send an acknowledgement to the service provider and the service provider does not let the call continue. If the prepaid finds are not exhausted, then the SIM card sends an acknowledgement and the service provider allows the call to continue.
  • the "charge information" messages can be sent periodically at specified intervals.
  • An object of the present invention is therefore to provide an improved system, method and application for monitoring access to mobile services.
  • a system for monitoring access to a mobile service by an end- user comprising a mobile station; an application local to the mobile station; and a rating and billing engine communicating with the application and external to said mobile station; wherein the application controls access to the mobile service in the mobile station, and the rating and billing engine holds funds and rates the service.
  • the present invention further provides a method for monitoring access to a mobile service by a mobile station to a user wherein when the user tries to access the service, a service control application on the mobile station sends a billing engine information associated with the requested service so that the billing engine calculates a rate and a maximum service value, which is then sent back to the service control application, which grants access to the service, the billing engine being external to the mobile station.
  • the present invention further provides a method for monitoring access to mobile services by a mobile station to a user, comprising the steps of: providing a service control application local to the mobile station; providing an engine communicating with the service control application; controlling access to the services by the service control application; and rating and billing the services by the engine; wherein the engine is external to the mobile station.
  • the present invention also provides an application residing a smart card, which is part of a mobile station, the application controlling incoming and outgoing calls, and communicating, for each call, with a system external to the mobile station to submit information regarding the call and get in return information regarding a maximum duration of the call, and further communicating with the system external to the mobile station to send information regarding a terminated call, and getting in return administrative information.
  • the present invention also provides an application residing on a smart card, which is part of a mobile station, theapplication controlling SMS, by controlling access by a user to new incoming SMS and by controlling an ability of the user to send SMS; communicating with an system external to the mobile station to submit information regarding the SMS to be sent; and further getting back a characterized authorization.
  • Figure 1 is a flowchart of a method according to an embodiment of an aspect of the present invention.
  • the present invention provides a system, a method and an application for monitoring access to mobile services at the mobile equipment level, while allowing external billing and rating through a secure communication channel, wherein an application local to the mobile station grants a user access to a mobile service, and may interrupt the service if necessary, without neither holding funds nor rating the service.
  • the service may be voice, short message, GPRS (general packet radio service), or any service provided by a wireless network through the mobile station.
  • GPRS general packet radio service
  • a system generally comprises a mobile station, an external billing and rating engine, and a service control application.
  • the mobile station grants the user access to a service, and may interrupt the service if necessary, on the network.
  • the mobile station is a mobile part in a mobile service, typically carried by the end-user. It may include typically a mobile equipment such as a handset fitted with a number of plug-ins such as a card, a memory expansion MMS or any components attached to the handset for example.
  • the external billing and rating engine rates the service, bills the service and in charge of a maintenance of accounts. It is to be noted that three distinct external engines may perform these three operations, providing they share a same communication channel with the service control application described hereinbelow. Alternatively, more that three engines may be used, depending on a type of service provided, including for example an engine for rating SMS, an engine for rating voice messages, another engine for rating GPRS for example.
  • the engine is external to the mobile station, i.e. it is external to a smart card of the mobile station and external to a handset for example, and external to any component of the mobile station.
  • Such an external billing and rating engine may be embodied for example by a retailer of the service, who applies given prices when providing services he pays at a wholesale rate.
  • the service control application is in charge of controlling access to the mobile service in the mobile station. It is local to said mobile station. It may reside in the mobile equipment, in the smart card or in another component such as an extension module or a memory card for example, provided communication with the telecommunication network so as to control the service. People in the art will appreciate that the application is not linked to a particular wireless technology, and may be deployed on GSM, TDMA, iDEN, UMTS, CDMA for example.
  • the billing engine is able to send and to receive data to and from the service control application, for example using SMS, GPRS, USSD, etc., either by using an external SMS service provider for example, or the Internet in the case of GPRS.
  • the billing engine although external to the mobile station, may communicate with the mobile equipment (handset) and /or with the smart card. It may be part of a generic network such as the Internet.
  • the wireless network provides a 2-ways data communication channel between the service control application and the external billing and rating engine. As mentioned, such a channel may be SMS, GPRS, USSD, or any data channel provided by the network and accessible by both the service control application and the external billing and rating engine.
  • the service control application is triggered by an attempt by the user to access the service.
  • the service control application is notified when the mobile station receives an inbound call, or when the user dials an outbound call. It may be in a 2-ways communication with the billing engine through a wireless channel (data, SMS, USSD, etc.).
  • the service control application sends the billing engine information associated with the requested service, including for example a current location, roaming status, destination number and current number thereof. Based on this information, the billing engine calculates a rate, and based on available funds for a given user, calculates a maximum service value, corresponding for example to a maximum duration of a call, or a maximum length of a message. The maximum service value is then sent back to the service control application, which ensures that the user does not consume more than what has been allocated. At the end of the service, the service control application sends the billing engine a status of the consumption, so that the billing engine may update the funds accordingly.
  • the service control application when requesting a service, such as making a call, the user expects to have a very short waiting time.
  • the service control application does not have time to receive the maximum service value before the user accesses the service.
  • the service control application needs to make a decision before receiving the maximum service value information, based on local information, whether or not to authorize this service. Therefore, the present system may further comprise a pre-authorization mechanism in order to be able to determine, based on offline information, whether the user may access the service or not.
  • the service control application may then reassess this authorization.
  • a service control application may comprise an internal service flag, which is updated at the closure of every service updated in function of an outcome of a previous service provided for example, either by the billing engine or by the application itself.
  • the application may authorize access based on the status of a flag first. If the service is authorized, the application sends the service information to the billing engine in order to get the maximum service value in return. Finally, it starts a time-out duration for the reception of the maximum service value. If this value is not received from the billing engine before the expiration of the time-out, the service control application may interrupt the service.
  • pre-authorization mechanism may be much more complex, with different rules depending of the type of service, depending on the location, and depending of the means to communicate with the billing engine.
  • a number of parameters may be taken into account in more evolved pre-authorization, such as for example, an history of previous accesses and an end-user profile, which may be used to draw a confidence level associated to a given end -user.
  • the service control application uses a secure protocol to exchange with the billing system.
  • a secure protocol ensures that the service information is sent from a genuine card; the service information has not been compromised; the maximum service value is coming from the true billing engine; the maximum service value has not been compromised; and the maximum service value concerns a requested service.
  • the security characteristics include confidentiality, non-replay
  • a simple protocol based on shared secret keys, which includes full encryption, message authentication code (MAC) and a random transaction number, may provide such characteristics.
  • MAC message authentication code
  • the application according to the present invention resides in a smart card, which is part of a mobile station, and controls calls, by (a) detecting a dialing attempt by the user or an outgoing call, and a call connection request from the network or incoming calls, (b) detecting the end of an outgoing or of an incoming call, from the user or from the network, (c) measuring the duration of a call, and (d) being able to force disconnection of the call at a certain time.
  • the application may refuse connection of a call, when connection is requested but before it has been established.
  • the application of the present invention may control SMS, since it is able to control access by the user to new incoming SMS and to control the ability of the user to send SMS.
  • the application of the present invention may communicate, for each call (either incoming or outgoing), at the beginning of the call or before the call is established, with a system external to the mobile station to submit information regarding the call and get in return information regarding the maximum duration of the call.
  • the application may communicate with the system external to the mobile station to send information regarding the end of the call (such as duration and status for example), and get in return administrative information internal to the application.
  • the application may communicate with the external system to submit information regarding the SMS(s) to be sent, and get back a characterized authorization regarding how many SMS, and what type of SMS can be sent to the network.
  • the application Before giving the user access to one or more incoming SMS, the application thus communicates with the external system to submit information regarding the incoming SMS(s), and gets back a characterized authorization regarding how many incoming SMS(s) and what type of incoming SMS can be read by the user.
  • the application ensures the integrity and the authenticity of the data transmitted back and forth.
  • the application may also authorize temporary outgoing call based on information stored locally (in the smart card or in another element of the mobile station), without storing the value of the available funds locally, i.e. in the smart card or in another element of the mobile station.
  • the application may temporarily authorize the sending of outgoing SMSs or the reading of incoming SMSs, based on information stored locally (in the smart card or in another element of the mobile station), without storing the value of the available funds locally (in the smart card or in another element of the mobile station).
  • a first step the service control application is notified that the user is attempting to access a service, such as making a phone call, for example.
  • the method may comprise a pre-authorization step 112, based on a service flag comprised in the application as described hereinabove, so that as soon as the service control application detects an attempt by the user to access a service, access is granted following this pre-authorization step.
  • the service control application also starts measuring the service.
  • a timer may be started for example, to measure the duration of the call (step 114).
  • the service control application retrieves the service information necessary for authorizing and rating and sends them to the billing engine (step 120).
  • this information may comprise a current location and an other party's phone number.
  • they may comprise a volume of data to be transmitted for example.
  • the billing engine determines a maximum service value (step 130).
  • the unit of this value depends on the type of service. For example, in the case of voice services, the unit may be the second or the minute, or any appropriate time unit.
  • the maximum service value thus defines a limitation of the service available to the user.
  • This maximum service value is sent to the service control application (step 140), so that when the user reaches the maximum service value, the service control application may interrupt access to the service. Also, when this maximum service value is available, the service control application may reassess this authorization when receiving the maximum service value from the billing engine (step 145).
  • the service control application submits to the billing engine the amount of service used by the user (step 150). Either the user ends the call (step155) and then the service control application stops the timer (156) so that the billing engine may update the user's account (157), or the service control application disconnects the call (160) because the maximum service value has been reached, and the billing engine update the user's account (161 ).
  • the service control application of the present invention may easily be implemented in a smart card that supports a card application toolkit, independently of a mobile technology used.
  • the present method does not need a remote management of the rating tables and rules, since these are handled by the billing system. Moreover, the present method allows an easier reloading process since the funds, which are managed by the billing system in the network, are always online, and an increased security since the real funds are centrally managed and a central authorization is required for every access to the service. Therefore, risk of fraud is lower than in a full-card solution.
  • the present invention is simpler in term of implementation, considering that a design and implementation of an efficient rating engine in a smart card is very complex and expensive.
  • the present invention further allows a smaller implementation, since the proposed solution does not need a rating engine, and therefore its implementation on a smart card solution is smaller than the full-card one.
  • the present method allows the rating to be provided by an external billing and rating engine, without relying on a specific mechanism of the network. Also the advice of charge is limited to the control of the voice service only, whereas the present method may be applied to any wireless services.
  • the present invention provides a system, an application and a method allowing access to services on a network (voice, SMS for short message service, data%), which are available through prepaid subscription or through a restricted access for example, to be controlled by an application running on a mobile station such as a mobile equipment, a smart card for example, and where the rating of the service is managed by a billing system, which is external to the mobile station.

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L'invention porte sur un système et sur un procédé selon lesquels l'accès à des services de réseaux, accessibles par exemple par souscription à prépaiement ou par accès restreint, est géré par une application fonctionnant dans une station mobile, telle que par exemple un équipement mobile ou une carte à puce, la tarification et la facturation des services étant effectuées par un système extérieur au réseau de communication.
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