WO2021104452A1

WO2021104452A1 - Billing method and apparatus for cloud serving usage package, and related device

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Publication number: WO2021104452A1
Application number: PCT/CN2020/132239
Authority: WO
Inventors: 赵少华; 陈振强
Original assignee: 华为技术有限公司
Priority date: 2019-11-27
Filing date: 2020-11-27
Publication date: 2021-06-03
Also published as: CN111130810A; CN111130810B

Abstract

The present application provides a billing method and apparatus for a cloud serving usage package, and a related device, applied to a billing system of a cloud serving management platform. The method comprises: receiving an order for a first cloud serving usage package, the order comprising an effective time, a purchase time, and a quota of the first cloud serving usage package and a user account for purchasing the first cloud serving usage package; and when the effective time is earlier than the purchase time, updating a bill of the user account according to the quota of the cloud serving usage package to generate an updated bill, the bill recording past excess usage, and the updated bill being generated by deducting the excess usage generated after the effective time recorded in the bill according to the quota of the first cloud serving usage package.

Description

Billing method, device and related equipment for cloud service usage package

Technical field

This application relates to the computer field, in particular to the billing method, device and related equipment of the cloud service usage package.

Background technique

Cloud service (Cloud Serving) usually refers to cloud service providers to provide users with shared resource services. With the development of Internet technology, cloud services have been rapidly developed and used. Currently, cloud service platforms can provide users with various cloud services such as Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS). Generally, after a user can purchase cloud service resources through a cloud service portal website, the cloud service portal website submits a corresponding resource application to the cloud computing resource management system, so that the cloud service resource management system will create corresponding resources for users to use.

Generally speaking, the cost-effectiveness of a cloud service's usage package is much higher than the cost-effectiveness of a separate billing based on usage. Therefore, users usually place an order in advance through the portal to purchase a cloud computing resource usage package according to their business needs. However, most users don’t always check their balance when using a usage pack. As a result, users often purchase new usage packs after their usage exceeds the pack quota. New usage packs can take effect immediately. , But the excess usage has been billed separately, causing economic losses to users and reducing user experience.

Summary of the invention

This application provides the billing method, device and related equipment of the cloud service usage package. When the effective time in the order is earlier than the current time, the user’s cloud service bill is recalculated to reduce the user’s overage caused by the usage package. The economic loss to improve the user experience.

In the first aspect, a billing method for a cloud service usage package is provided, which is applied to a billing system of a cloud service management platform, and the method includes:

Receiving an order for a first cloud service usage package, the order including the effective time, purchase time, quota of the first cloud service usage package, and a user account that purchased the first cloud service usage package;

In the case where the effective time is earlier than the purchase time, the bill of the user account is updated according to the amount of the cloud service usage package to generate an updated bill, wherein the bill records the historically generated excess usage, The updated bill is generated by deducting the excess usage recorded in the bill and generated after the effective time according to the quota of the first cloud service usage package.

In a specific implementation, the order further includes the usage rules of the first cloud service usage package, and in the case where the effective time is earlier than the purchase time, the order is updated according to the quota of the first cloud service usage package The bill for the user account to generate an update bill includes: querying the usage record recorded in the bill that matches the usage rule after the effective time; checking all the usage records according to the quota of the first cloud service usage package The excess usage generated by the usage record is deducted to generate the updated bill, wherein the excess usage is the usage exceeding the quota of the second cloud service usage package purchased in history.

Implement the method described in the first aspect, by adding the option of the usage pack effective time on the front-end portal, record the effective time of the usage pack selected by each user when purchasing a new usage pack, so that the billing system judges that the effective time is early In the case of purchase time, the excess usage will be deducted according to the newly purchased first cloud service usage package, thereby generating an updated bill, reducing the economic loss of the user due to the excess usage package, and improving the user experience.

In an embodiment, the method further includes: receiving a bill query request sent by a client; and sending the updated bill to the client in response to the bill query request.

In the above embodiment, when the user needs to query the bill, he can query the updated bill generated by deducting the excess usage according to the newly purchased first cloud service usage package. The user not only avoids the economic loss caused by the excess usage package, but also Improve user experience.

In an embodiment, when the effective time is not earlier than the purchase time, the method further includes: generating a bill according to the usage record before the effective time and the second cloud service usage package purchased in history; The bill is updated according to the usage record after the effective time and the second cloud service usage package purchased in history and the first cloud service usage package.

In the above embodiment, the user can also set the effective date after the purchase time or the same as the purchase date, and the user can flexibly set the effective time for the purchase of the usage pack, thereby avoiding the use of the actual usage time after the purchase time. The time period between the time and the purchase time is billed for the waste of the usage package, which reduces user losses and improves user experience.

In a second aspect, a billing device for a cloud service usage package is provided, which is applied to a billing system of a cloud service management platform. The device includes a receiving unit and an updating unit, wherein,

The receiving unit is configured to receive an order for a first cloud service usage package, where the order includes the effective time, purchase time, quota, and user account of the first cloud service usage package. ；

The update unit is configured to update the bill of the user account according to the quota of the cloud service usage package to generate an update bill when the effective time is earlier than the purchase time, wherein the bill record contains For the historically generated excess usage, the updated bill is generated by deducting the excess usage recorded in the bill after the effective time according to the quota of the first cloud service usage package.

In an embodiment, the order further includes a usage rule of the first cloud service usage package, and the update unit is configured to query the usage recorded in the bill that matches the usage rule after the effective time Record; the update unit is used to deduct the excess usage generated by the usage record according to the quota of the first cloud service usage package to generate the update bill, wherein the excess usage exceeds the historical purchase The amount of the quota of the second cloud service usage package.

In an embodiment, the device further includes a response unit, the receiving unit is configured to receive a bill query request sent by the client; the response unit is configured to respond to the bill query request and send the updated bill to the Client.

In an embodiment, if the effective time is not earlier than the purchase time, the updating unit is further configured to generate a bill based on the usage record before the effective time and the second cloud service usage package purchased in history The update unit is also used to update the bill according to the usage record after the effective time and the second cloud service usage package purchased in history and the first cloud service usage package.

In the third aspect, a computer program product is provided. When the computer program product is read and executed by a computing device, the method described in the first aspect is implemented.

In a fourth aspect, a computer non-transitory storage medium is provided, including instructions, which when executed on a computing device, cause the computing device to implement the method described in the first aspect.

In a fifth aspect, an electronic device is provided, including a processor and a memory, and when the processor executes the code in the memory, the method as described in the first aspect is implemented.

Description of the drawings

In order to more clearly describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application or the prior art, the following will briefly introduce the drawings that need to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art.

Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the architecture of a cloud service management platform;

Figure 2 is a flow diagram of a billing system generating bills based on user usage records and historical usage packages;

FIG. 3 is a schematic flowchart of a billing method for a cloud service usage package provided by this application;

4 is a schematic diagram of the process of obtaining an updated bill in a billing method for a cloud service usage package provided by this application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic flowchart of a billing method for a cloud service usage package provided by this application in an application scenario;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a user setting effective range in an application scenario provided by this application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a billing device for a cloud service usage package provided by this application;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of the structure of an electronic device provided by the present application.

Detailed ways

The terms used in the implementation mode part of this application are only used to explain specific embodiments of this application, and are not intended to limit this application.

In order to facilitate the understanding of the embodiments of the present application, first, a brief description of the application scenarios involved in the present application will be given.

Cloud services are distributed computing (Distributed Computing), parallel computing (Parallel Computing), utility computing (Utility Computing), network storage (Network Storage Technologies), virtualization (Virtualization), load balancing (Load Balance) content distribution network (Content Delivery Network) and other traditional computer and network technology development and integration products. Cloud services are the increase, use, and interaction modes of Internet-based related services, which usually involve the provision of dynamic, easily expandable and often virtualized resources through the Internet. Understandably, the cloud is a metaphor for the network and the Internet. In the past, the cloud was often used to represent the telecommunication network in the figure, and later it was also used to abstractly represent the Internet and underlying infrastructure. In fact, cloud services refer to obtaining required services through the network in an on-demand and easily scalable manner. This kind of service can be related to IT and software, the Internet, or other services, which means that computing power can also be used as a commodity to circulate through the Internet.

To put it simply, multiple customers can share the system resources of a cloud service provider. They can enjoy professional IT services without setting up any equipment and equipping management personnel. This can be a great advantage for general entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises. To reduce operating costs, for cloud service providers, because the system resources they purchase can also be leased to customers when they are idle, which improves the resource utilization of cloud service providers.

Secondly, a brief description of the architecture of the cloud service management platform involved in this application is given.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of the architecture of a cloud service management platform provided by the present application. As shown in FIG. 1, the cloud service management platform 100 may include a portal website 110, an order system 120, a billing system 130, and a resource management system 140. The resource management system 140 is connected to the resource pool 150, and the user 160 can purchase and use cloud service resources in the resource pool 150 through the portal website 110. It should be understood that FIG. 1 only uses one user and six cloud service resources as an example for illustration, and this application does not specifically limit the number of users and cloud service resources. Moreover, FIG. 1 is only a possible implementation of the cloud service management platform. In actual applications, the cloud service management platform 100 may also include more or fewer units, modules, or subsystems, which is not in this application. Make restrictions.

The portal website 110 may be a portal website of a cloud service platform. The portal website 110 may show the user the types, parameters, and prices of resources available for purchase in the current cloud service resource pool. For example, the portal website 110 may show the user 160 the current resource pool 150 There is resource 1 available for use. Resource 1 is a 2-core 8G cloud server located in the South China Data Center. The operating system is Windows, the bandwidth is 1M, and the rental amount for 3 months is 300 yuan. It is understandable that the portal website 110 may also allow users to inquire about the current account balance, bills, usage records, and so on. When a user chooses to purchase a certain cloud service resource, the cloud service portal website will generate order information, which may include user information, resource types ordered by the user, parameters, and prices, and send the order information to the order system 120. It should be understood that the above examples are only for illustration and cannot constitute a specific limitation.

The order system 120 can support the portal 110 to complete the user's purchase process, such as providing the payment interface of the cloud platform provider to the portal 110 to display the payment page to the user 160, and can also drive the billing system 130 after the user has successfully paid Generate the corresponding amount package. It may also include other order management functions such as statistics and classification of the user's successful and unsuccessful payment orders, which are not specifically limited in this application.

The billing system 130 may be driven by the order system 120 to generate a consumption package purchased by the user 160 this time, and update the user's consumption balance. When the billing system 130 receives the usage record of the user 160 pushed by the resource management system 140, it deducts the usage balance according to the usage record, and generates a bill.

In specific implementation, as shown in FIG. 2, the billing system 140 can first generate the quota of the usage package purchased by the user this time according to the order information generated by the order system 120, and then perform a calculation on the usage balance of the user’s current cloud service usage package. Update. When the billing system 130 receives the usage record pushed by the resource management system 140 (that is, the usage record of the cloud service resource corresponding to the user), the billing system 130 can deduct the usage balance according to the usage record, thereby generating bill A . It should be understood that bill A can be updated immediately after each resource management system 140 pushes the usage record. Therefore, if the resource management system 140 sends the usage record every T time, then the bill A is also updated every T time. As shown in Figure 2, the resource management system 140 at time T1 pushes the usage records from time T0 to time T1 to the billing system 130. Therefore, the billing system generates bill A1 and updates the usage balance based on the usage balance and usage records. In the same way, the resource management system 140 at time T2 pushes the usage records from time T1 to time T2 to the billing system 130. Therefore, the billing system updates the bill A1 based on the current usage balance and usage records, generates bill A2, and calculates the usage balance. Update again, and so on, so I won’t go into details here. It is understandable that when a user initiates a bill query request from the portal website 110, the billing system 130 may also integrate the newly generated bills to generate historical bill details and push them to the portal website for the user 160 to check and check.

The resource management system 140 can perform overall monitoring and management of various cloud service resources in the resource pool 150, generate usage records of various cloud service resources according to user usage, and send the usage records to the billing system for processing. In specific implementation, the resource management system 150 may periodically send cloud service usage records to the billing system. For example, cloud service usage records are sent every 1 hour. The specific value of period T can be modified according to business usage. This application There is no specific limitation on this. The resource management system 140 may also provide feedback to the portal website according to the overall situation of the various cloud service resources in the resource pool 150, such as feedback of cloud computing resources that are currently available.

The resource pool 150 is used to provide users with various IAAS cloud services, such as cloud hosting, cloud storage, bandwidth, etc., and can also provide users with platform as a service (Platform as a Service, PAAS) such as relational database service (Relational Database Service). , RDS), Software-as-a-Service (SAAS), etc., and can also provide rich cloud services that can be used through the network, such as software development cloud, which is not limited in this application.

Generally speaking, the billing types of cloud services can be unit price billing and usage package billing. Among them, the unit price billing refers to the calculation of the cost according to the unit price of network traffic or usage. For example, the price of 1G traffic is 1 yuan, and the user needs to spend 60 yuan to use 60G traffic. Usage pack billing refers to the one-time purchase of a certain amount of cloud service usage pack. After the user uses the cloud service usage pack, the usage pack is deducted according to the usage record, and the excess usage after the deduction of the usage pack is calculated at the unit price. For example, if the user spends 30 yuan to buy 40G data, if the user uses 20G data, no extra charge will be incurred. If the user uses 40G data, no additional charge will be incurred. The user spends a total of 30 yuan to use 40G data. If the user uses 60G data , Where 40G traffic is non-excess usage, no additional charges will be incurred, and 20G traffic is excess usage and will be billed at a unit price. Therefore, users need to spend a total of 30+20=50 yuan to use 60G traffic. It should be understood that the above examples are only for illustration and cannot constitute a specific limitation.

It is understandable that the cost-effectiveness of the usage package of cloud services is much higher than the cost-effectiveness of separate billing based on usage. Therefore, users usually place an order in advance on the portal to purchase a usage package for cloud computing resources according to their business needs. However, most users don’t always check their balance when using a usage pack. As a result, users often purchase new usage packs after their usage exceeds the pack quota. New usage packs can take effect immediately. , But the excess usage has been billed separately, causing economic losses to users and reducing user experience.

For example, as shown in Table 1, the user spends 30 yuan to purchase a 40G CDN usage package at time T0, and the billing system 130 at time T1 receives the usage record of 20G CDN traffic sent by the resource manager 140 at time T0-T1. At this time, the billing system 130 will not generate additional charges. The usage record received by the billing system 130 at T2 is 40G CDN traffic. Since the CDN usage package balance of the user at T2 is only 20G, the 20G traffic at T3 is an excess usage. , The user needs to charge the unit price for the 20G usage, and the 1G traffic price is 1 yuan, so the user needs to spend 30+20=50 yuan to use the 60G traffic in total. In fact, users can buy a 40G usage package for 30 yuan and a 20G usage package for 10 yuan to get 60G of traffic with 40 yuan. However, when the user finds that the traffic is excessive, even if he immediately buys a 10 yuan 20G usage package, The excess usage of 20G has been included in the bill, causing economic losses to users and reducing user experience. It should be understood that the above examples are only for illustration and cannot constitute a specific limitation.

Table 1 An example of a bill in an application scenario

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem of poor user experience due to the economic losses caused by the overage of the usage pack, this application provides a billing method for the cloud service usage pack, by adding the option of the usage pack effective time on the front-end portal, recording Each user selects the effective time of the usage package when purchasing a new usage pack, so that when the billing system determines that the effective time is earlier than the time of purchase, the excess usage will be deducted according to the new usage pack quota, and an updated bill will be generated. The user's economic loss caused by the excess of the usage package improves the user's experience.

Fig. 3 is a schematic flowchart of a billing method for a cloud service usage package provided by the present application. As shown in Figure 3, the method includes the following steps:

S101: The billing system receives an order for a first cloud service usage package, where the order includes the effective time, purchase time, quota, and the user who purchased the first cloud service usage package account number.

S102: Determine whether the effective time is earlier than the purchase time, if yes, execute step S103, if not, execute step S104.

S103: Update the bill of the user account according to the amount of the cloud service usage package to generate an updated bill, wherein the bill records historically generated excess usage, and the updated bill is based on the usage of the first cloud service The package quota is generated by deducting the excess usage recorded after the effective time of the bill.

S104: Generate a bill according to the usage record before the effective time and the second cloud service usage package purchased in history, and according to the usage record after the effective time and the second cloud service usage package purchased in history and the first cloud service The usage package updates the bill.

With reference to the system architecture shown in FIG. 1, it can be seen that the order processing method provided in this application is aimed at the billing system, which may be specifically at step 3 in FIG. 1. That is to say, after the billing system receives the order information sent by the order system, it executes the order processing method provided in this application. It can be confirmed that the effective time of the usage package selected by the user in the order information is earlier than the purchase time, according to The newly purchased first cloud service usage package recalculates the excess usage, generates an updated bill, reduces the user's economic loss due to the excess usage package, and improves the user experience.

The following is a detailed introduction of how to recalculate the excess usage based on the user's newly purchased first cloud service usage package to generate an update bill.

In the embodiment of the present application, the order also includes the usage rules of the first cloud service usage package, and the updated bill may specifically be obtained by recalculating the excess usage that meets the usage rules of the first cloud service usage package of. It should be understood that due to the wide variety of cloud service usage packages, each user can purchase many different types of cloud services in order to meet usage needs. The billing type of each type of cloud service can also be divided into on-demand billing and per-use billing Package billing. The types of usage packages in the usage package billing can also be divided into monthly, annual and hourly packages. Therefore, when a user purchases multiple usage packs, when the billing system 130 deducts the account balance based on the user's usage record, it needs to deduct the corresponding usage packs according to the usage rules of different usage packs in turn. Here, the usage rule of the usage pack can be determined according to the product type and the usage pack type selected by the user when purchasing the usage pack.

Among them, the product type can be hard disk service, hard disk backup service, etc. of storage type products, content delivery network (CDN) service of network type products, virtual private network (Virtual Private Network, VPN) service, etc., computing Types of products such as elastic cloud services, Cloud Container Engine (CCE) services, etc., can also be security types, application service types, database types, video types, EI enterprise intelligence types, IoT types, and other product types Cloud services, this application is not specifically limited.

The usage pack type can be the quota, duration, etc. of the usage pack. For example, the usage pack type of the hard drive usage pack A purchased by the user is 100G/hour/3 months. There is a 100G hard disk usage package quota per hour. If the user's usage does not exceed 100G in the first hour, no additional billing will be incurred. If the user uses 120G in 2 hours, then 100G is a non-excess usage and will not be charged. Additional billing will be generated. If 20G is the excess usage, the unit price will be billed. In the third hour, if the user's usage is 80G, then there will be no unit price billing. In the same way, if the usage package type of CND usage package A is 10G/month/1 year, the user will have 10G traffic per month within 1 year. If the user uses 10G traffic in the first month, there will be no unit price calculation. If the user uses 12G data in the second month, then the 2G data will be charged at the unit price for excess usage. It should be understood that the above examples are only for illustration, and this application does not make specific limitations.

Therefore, in a specific implementation, when the effective time is earlier than the purchase time, the excess usage that meets the usage rules of the first cloud service usage package is recalculated, and the specific steps for generating an updated bill may be as follows:

S1031: Query the usage record recorded in the bill that matches the usage rule after the effective time.

As shown in Figure 4, in the usage record, the record C _{1 is} before the effective date, and the records C ₂ , C _3, and C ₄ are after the effective date. However, _{the usage rules of the record C 1} and the record C _{4 and} the usage of the first cloud service The usage rules of the package do not match, so the usage records obtained in step S1031 are the shaded record C ₂ and the record C _4. These two records are after the effective date and match the usage rules of the first cloud service usage package. recording. For example, if record C ₁ and record C ₃ are hard disk usage records, and C ₂ and C ₄ are CDN traffic usage records, if the first cloud service usage package is a CDN usage package, then after the effective time The usage records matched by the usage rule are the record C ₂ and the record C ₄ . It should be understood that the above examples are only for illustration and cannot constitute a specific limitation.

S1032: Deduct the excess usage generated by the usage record according to the quota of the first cloud service usage package to generate the update bill. As shown in Figure 4, step S1032 may first determine the excess usage, and then use the excess usage to deduct the first cloud service usage package.

Specifically, first, the second cloud service usage package (the current usage balance of the user account in the foregoing content) can be deducted by referring to the usage record to calculate the excess usage. As shown in FIG. 4, after the effective time is obtained in step S1031, the usage records that match the usage rule are record C ₂ and record C ₄ , and the charging system 130 can compare the second _{record according to record C 2} and record C ₄ The cloud service usage package is deducted. After the _second cloud service usage package is deducted according to record C 2 and record C ₄₁ (record C ₄ is divided into record C ₄₁ and record C ₄₂ ), the second cloud service usage The remaining amount in the package that matches the usage rule is zero. Therefore, the record C _{42 in the} usage record that has not been deducted is the excess usage, and the deducted records C ₂ and C ₄₁ are the non-excess usage.

For example, if record C ₂ is 10G CDN traffic, record C ₄ is 15G CDN traffic, and the CDN traffic quota of the second cloud service usage package is 20G, then the excess usage is 15G, and the non-excess usage is 20G. That is, at this time, the record C ₄₁ is 10G, and the record C ₄₂ is 15G. It should be understood that the above examples are only for illustration and cannot constitute a specific limitation.

Secondly, after calculating the excess usage, the excess usage can be deducted according to the quota of the first cloud service usage package to generate an update bill. Specifically, as shown in Figure 4, in the update bill, the excess usage C ₄₂ The first cloud service usage package is deducted, and the non-excess usage C ₂ and C ₄₁ are deducted for the second cloud service usage package. It should be noted that usage records that do not match the usage rules of the first cloud service usage package newly purchased by the user, that is, records C1 and C3 in FIG. 4, will still be deducted by the second cloud service usage package. It is understandable that the excess usage is deducted from the user's newly purchased first cloud service usage package to generate an update bill, which can avoid the economic loss of the user due to the excess usage and improve the user experience.

In specific implementation, referring to the foregoing content, it can be seen that the resource management system 140 pushes the usage record to the billing system 130 every period T. Therefore, after the user purchases the first cloud service usage package, if the effective time is earlier than the purchase time, it will be Calculate the excess usage immediately after the effective time, deduct the excess usage from the first cloud service usage package again, and generate an update bill. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, after the billing system 130 receives the usage records at time T1-T2 sent by the resource management system 140 at time T1, it can use the current second cloud service usage package (the current usage balance of the user account) For generating the bill A1, reference may be made to the embodiment in FIG. 2 for details, and details are not described herein again. After receiving the user order information sent by the order system at time T2.5, the billing system 130 first generates the first cloud service usage package, and determines that the effective time T1 of the first cloud service usage package is earlier than the purchase time T2.5 Then, secondly, according to the usage records at the time T1-T2 (the usage records after the effective time), the excess usage and non-excess usage of the user account are determined, thereby generating an update bill A1', where, in the update bill A1', the excess usage pair The first cloud service usage package is deducted, and the non-excess usage is deducted for the second cloud service usage package, thereby avoiding the economic loss of users due to excessive usage and improving user experience. Among them, the specific process of generating the updated bill A1' can refer to the embodiment in FIG. 4, which will not be repeated here. In the same way, after the billing system receives the usage record at time T2-T3 sent by the resource management system at time T3, it can deduct the current balance of the second cloud service usage package and the balance of the first cloud service usage package based on this , Thereby generating bill A2. By analogy, I won't go into details here.

Still taking the application scenario in the aforementioned Table 1 as an example, the user spends 30 yuan to purchase a 40G CDN usage package, and the T1 time billing system 130 receives the 20G CDN traffic that the T0-T1 time usage record sent by the resource manager 140 is. At this time, the billing system 130 will not generate additional charges. The usage record received by the billing system 130 at T2 is 40G CDN traffic. Since the user’s CDN usage package balance at T2 is only 20G, if the cloud service provided by this application is not used The billing method of the usage package, 20G traffic at T2 time is the unit price for excess usage. However, if you use the billing method of the cloud service usage package provided by this application, when the user finds that the traffic is oversubscribed, he can purchase a 10 yuan 20G usage package at time T3, and set the effective time to time T2, and the billing system 130 can be based on the excess The consumption is deducted from the user’s newly purchased 20G usage package, and an update bill is generated. The total cost in the update bill is only 30+10=40 yuan. Compared with the embodiment in Table 1, the user has reduced the extra 10 due to excess usage. The economic loss of yuan improves the user experience. It should be understood that the above examples are only for illustration and cannot constitute a specific limitation.

Table 2 An example of a bill in an application scenario using the billing method of the cloud service usage package provided by this application

In the embodiment of the present application, if the effective time is not earlier than the purchase time, the billing system 130 can deduct the bill according to the embodiment of FIG. 2, that is, according to the usage record before the effective time and A bill is generated for the second cloud service usage package purchased in history, and the bill is updated according to the usage record after the effective time and the second cloud service usage package purchased in history and the first cloud service usage package. For example, if a user purchases a usage pack with 100 quotas per hour, the purchase time is 8:00:00. Since the user does not need to use the usage pack from 8 to 9 o'clock, the user can set the usage pack’s The effective time is 9:00:00, then the usage records before 9:00 will be deducted for the second cloud service usage package, and the unit price of the excess part will be charged. The usage records after 9:00 will be used for the first cloud service usage package and the first cloud service usage package. 2. The cloud service usage package will be deducted, and the unit price of the excess will be charged. It is understandable that the user can flexibly set the effective time of the purchase amount package, which can not only avoid the user's extra cost due to the excess usage, but also avoid the difference between the purchase time (8 o'clock) and the user's actual use time (9 o'clock). The waste caused by time-based charging improves user experience. The above examples are only for illustration and cannot constitute a specific limitation.

In the embodiment of the present application, the method further includes: receiving a bill query request sent by a client; and sending the updated bill to the client in response to the bill query request. That is, when the user queries the bill, the bill pushed by the billing system 130 to the portal website 110 is an updated bill that uses the excess usage to deduct the first cloud service usage package. It can be understood that referring to the foregoing content, the resource management system 140 pushes usage records to the billing system 130 every period T, and the billing system 130 also generates bills every period T. Therefore, in order to facilitate the user to query the bill, the billing system 130 also generates bills. The billing system can generate total bill details every hour, every month, every day, or once a year, and collect statistics on the bills generated in each period T. For example, if the billing system 130 generates bills for the previous hour once every hour, Then the 24 bills generated 24 hours in the previous day can be summarized every day at zero, and daily bill details can be generated. Similarly, monthly bill details, annual bill details, etc. can also be generated to facilitate user inquiries and improve user experience.

In the embodiment of this application, the cloud service management system 100 that implements the order method of the cloud service usage package provided by this application only needs to perform a simple upgrade on the portal site 110 and add the effective time for receiving the user's order information and the usage package. Then, the billing system 130 executes steps S101 to S104 to re-bilize the excess usage after the effective date of the user to generate an updated bill, thereby avoiding the user’s additional billing due to the excess usage. Improve user experience.

In a specific implementation, as shown in FIG. 6, when the user purchases the first cloud service usage package at the portal website 110, the portal website 110 may display the page 601 in FIG. 6 to the user. Users can select the desired cloud service product type on page 601, such as storage package, downstream traffic package, back-to-source traffic package, etc. After selecting the desired product type, you can select the storage package specifications for each application volume package type For example, in Figure 6, the storage package quota is 40GB, the downstream traffic package quota is 50GB, and the return-source traffic package quota is 1TB. Then, the user can choose the length of time to purchase, such as 1 month as shown in Figure 6, that is, within 1 month, the storage package has a quota of 40GB, a downstream traffic package of 50GB, and a return-to-source traffic package of 1TB. The unit price is required for the excess. Billing. Finally, the user can set the effective time for the selected usage package. Specifically, the effective date and time can be directly input in the input box 902, or the calendar button 903 can be used to expand the calendar to select the effective date and time. The effective time can be earlier than the current one. The purchase time of the may not be earlier than the current purchase time, which can be specifically determined according to the user's usage needs, and this application does not specifically limit it.

It is understandable that this application uses the option of adding the effective time of the usage package on the front-end portal site to record the effective time of the usage package selected by each user when purchasing a new usage package, so that the billing system judges that the effective time is earlier than the purchase In the case of time, the excess usage will be deducted according to the newly purchased first cloud service usage package, thereby generating an updated bill, reducing the user's economic loss caused by the excess usage package, and improving the user experience.

The following explains part of the devices involved in this application. As shown in FIG. 7, the present application provides a cloud service usage package billing device 700, which is applied to the billing system of the cloud service management platform 100 as shown in FIG. 1. The device 700 includes a receiving unit 710 and Update unit 720, in which,

The receiving unit 710 is configured to receive an order for a first cloud service usage package, the order including the effective time, purchase time, quota, and the user who purchased the first cloud service usage package account number;

The update unit 720 is configured to update the bill of the user account according to the amount of the cloud service usage package to generate an update bill when the effective time is earlier than the purchase time, wherein the bill record There is a historically generated excess usage, and the updated bill is generated by deducting the excess usage recorded in the bill after the effective time according to the quota of the first cloud service usage package.

In the embodiment of the present application, the order further includes the usage rule of the first cloud service usage package, and the update unit 720 is configured to query the usage rule that is recorded in the bill and matches the usage rule after the effective time. The usage record; the update unit 720 is configured to deduct the excess usage generated by the usage record according to the quota of the first cloud service usage package to generate the updated bill, wherein the excess usage is the excess The usage amount of the second cloud service usage package purchased in history.

In the embodiment of the present application, the device further includes a response unit 730, the receiving unit 710 is configured to receive a bill query request sent by the client; the response unit 730 is configured to respond to the bill query request to update the bill Sent to the client.

In the embodiment of the present application, if the effective time is not earlier than the purchase time, the update unit 720 is further configured to use the usage record before the effective time and the second cloud service usage amount purchased in history. The package generates a bill; the update unit 720 is further configured to update the bill according to the usage record after the effective time and the second cloud service usage package purchased in history and the first cloud service usage package.

Please refer to FIG. 8, which is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device 800 according to an embodiment of the present application. The electronic device 800 may be the billing system 130 in the foregoing content. As shown in FIG. 8, the electronic device 800 includes one or more processors 803, a communication interface 802, and a memory 801. The processor 803, the communication interface 802, and the memory 801 may be connected by a bus, or may be communicated by other means such as wireless transmission. The embodiment of the present application takes the connection via a bus 804 as an example, where the bus 804 may be a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus or an Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus. The bus 804 can be divided into an address bus, a data bus, a control bus, and so on. For ease of representation, only one thick line is used in FIG. 8, but it does not mean that there is only one bus or one type of bus.

The memory 801 may include volatile memory (Volatile Memory), such as random access memory (Random Access Memory, RAM); the memory 801 may also include non-volatile memory (Non-Volatile Memory, NVM), such as read-only memory ( Read-Only Memory (ROM), Flash Memory (FM), Hard Disk Drive (HDD), or Solid-State Drive (SSD). The memory 801 may also include a combination of the above-mentioned types of memories. Among them, the memory 801 may store program codes and program data. For example, there are stored program codes for generating updated bills based on excess usage and the quota of the first cloud service usage package, program codes for responding to user inquiries about order information, program codes for judging whether the effective time is at the time of purchase, etc., and usage records are also stored , Billing details and order information, etc.

The communication interface 802 can be a wired interface (such as an Ethernet interface), an internal interface (such as a high-speed serial computer expansion bus (Peripheral Component Interconnect express, PCIe) bus interface), a wired interface (such as an Ethernet interface), or a wireless interface ( For example, a cellular network interface or the use of a wireless local area network interface) to communicate with other devices or modules. For example, the communication interface 802 is used to support the communication between the electronic device 800 and the order system 110 and the resource management system 140, and/or used to perform other steps of the technology described herein, which will not be repeated here.

The processor 803 includes one or more general-purpose processors, where the general-purpose processor can be any type of device capable of processing electronic instructions, including a central processing unit (CPU), a microprocessor, a microcontroller, and a main Processors, controllers, ASICs, etc. The processor 803 is used to execute various types of digital storage instructions, such as software or firmware programs stored in the memory 801, which enables the computing device to provide a wide variety of services.

Specifically, the processor 803 may include at least an update unit and a response unit, and the update unit may include the functions described by the update unit in FIG. 7, for example, when the effective time is earlier than the purchase time, according to the The amount of the cloud service usage package updates the bill of the user account to generate an update bill. It can also be used to perform other steps described in the embodiment of FIG. 3 and FIG. 6, which will not be repeated here; the response unit may include the response in FIG. 7 The function described by the unit, for example, sending the updated bill to the client in response to the bill query request, can also be used to perform other steps described in the embodiments of FIG. 3 and FIG. 6, which will not be repeated here. In addition, for the details of the functional modules or units not mentioned here, please refer to the relevant descriptions in the embodiments described in FIG. 3 to FIG. 6, which will not be repeated here.

It should be noted that FIG. 8 is only a possible implementation of the embodiment of the present application. In practical applications, the electronic device 800 may also be a cloud service cluster. The cloud service cluster includes at least one computing node, and each computing node may be The electronic device as shown in Fig. 8 will not be repeated here. The electronic device may also include more or fewer components, which is not limited here.

The embodiment of the present application also provides a computer-readable storage medium, which stores instructions in the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer-readable storage medium runs on a processor, the method flow shown in FIG. 3 to FIG. 6 is implemented.

The embodiments of the present application also provide a computer program product. When the computer program product runs on a processor, the method flow shown in FIGS. 3 to 6 is realized.

The above-mentioned embodiments may be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware, firmware or any other combination. When implemented using software, the above-mentioned embodiments may be implemented in the form of a computer program product in whole or in part. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. When the computer program instructions are loaded or executed on a computer, the processes or functions described in the embodiments of the present invention are generated in whole or in part. The computer may be a general-purpose computer, a special-purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable devices. The computer instructions may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer-readable storage medium to another computer-readable storage medium. For example, the computer instructions may be transmitted from a website, computer, server, or data center. Transmission to another website, computer, server, or data center via wired (such as coaxial cable, optical fiber, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)) or wireless (such as infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer-readable storage medium may be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device such as a server or a data center that includes one or more sets of available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (for example, a floppy disk, a hard disk, and a magnetic tape), an optical medium (for example, a high-density digital video disc (Digital Video Disc, DVD)), or a semiconductor medium. The semiconductor medium may be SSD.

The above are only specific embodiments of the present invention, but the protection scope of the present invention is not limited to this. Anyone familiar with the technical field can easily think of various equivalents within the technical scope disclosed in the present invention. Modifications or replacements, these modifications or replacements should all be covered within the protection scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

A billing method for a cloud service usage package, which is characterized in that it is applied to a billing system of a cloud service management platform, and the method includes:

Receiving an order for a first cloud service usage package, the order including the effective time, purchase time, quota of the first cloud service usage package, and a user account that purchased the first cloud service usage package;

In the case where the effective time is earlier than the purchase time, the bill of the user account is updated according to the amount of the cloud service usage package to generate an updated bill, wherein the bill records the historically generated excess usage, The updated bill is generated by deducting the excess usage recorded in the bill and generated after the effective time according to the quota of the first cloud service usage package.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the order further includes a usage rule of the first cloud service usage package, and in the case that the effective time is earlier than the purchase time, according to the The amount of the first cloud service usage package updates the bill of the user account to generate an update bill, including:

Query the usage records recorded in the bill that match the usage rules after the effective time;

The excess usage generated by the usage record is deducted according to the limit of the first cloud service usage package to generate the updated bill, wherein the excess usage is the limit of the second cloud service usage package purchased in history. The dosage.
The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the method further comprises:

Receive the bill query request sent by the client;

Send the updated bill to the client in response to the bill query request.
The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, in the case that the effective time is not earlier than the purchase time, the method further comprises:

Generating a bill according to the usage record before the effective time and the second cloud service usage package purchased in history;

The bill is updated according to the usage record after the effective time and the second cloud service usage package purchased in history and the first cloud service usage package.
A billing device for a cloud service usage package, characterized in that it is applied to a billing system of a cloud service management platform, the device includes a receiving unit and an updating unit, wherein:

The receiving unit is configured to receive an order for a first cloud service usage package, where the order includes the effective time, purchase time, quota, and user account of the first cloud service usage package. ；

The update unit is configured to update the bill of the user account according to the quota of the cloud service usage package to generate an update bill when the effective time is earlier than the purchase time, wherein the bill record contains For the historically generated excess usage, the updated bill is generated by deducting the excess usage recorded in the bill after the effective time according to the quota of the first cloud service usage package.
The device according to claim 5, wherein the order further includes usage rules of the first cloud service usage package,

The update unit is configured to query usage records recorded in the bill that match the usage rules after the effective time;

The update unit is configured to deduct the excess usage generated by the usage record according to the quota of the first cloud service usage package to generate the update bill, wherein the excess usage is the second amount that exceeds the historical purchase The amount of the quota of the cloud service usage package.
The device according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the device further comprises a response unit,

The receiving unit is configured to receive a bill query request sent by the client;

The response unit is configured to send the updated bill to the client in response to the bill query request.
The device according to claim 5, characterized in that, in the case that the effective time is not earlier than the purchase time,

The update unit is further configured to generate a bill according to the usage record before the effective time and the second cloud service usage package purchased in history;

The updating unit is further configured to update the bill according to the usage record after the effective time and the second cloud service usage package purchased in history and the first cloud service usage package.
A computer program product, characterized in that, when the computer program product is read and executed by a computing device, the method according to any one of claims 1 to 4 will be executed.
A computer non-transitory storage medium, which is characterized by comprising instructions, which when run on a computing device, cause the computing device to execute the method according to any one of claims 1 to 4.
An electronic device, comprising a processor and a memory, and the processor executes the code in the memory to execute the method according to any one of claims 1 to 4.