Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100248685 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING DISTRIBUTED IMS CHARGING - The present invention relates to communication technology, and in particular, to a method, apparatus and system for supporting distributed IMS charging. The system for supporting distributed IMS charging, comprises: a plurality of nodes, and a index server ( | 09-30-2010 |
20120106722 | METHOD, A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND A NETWORK NODE FOR SPONSORING A COMMUNICATION SERVICE - The invention concerns a method for sponsoring a communication service, wherein said communication service is made available directly, in particular to a user of said communication service, and wherein a rule, in particular applicable for charging a sponsor of said communication service, is determined dynamically. | 05-03-2012 |
20120237013 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING DATA RELATED TO A CALLING CARD FUNCTION IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, AS WELL AS A SERVER, A COMPUTER PROGRAM AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - The invention concerns a system for transferring data related to a calling card function between a server ( | 09-20-2012 |
20130005371 | VOICE NOTIFICATION TO THE DESTINATION OF A TEXT MESSAGE THAT IS ENGAGED IN A VOICE CALL - Systems and methods are disclosed that provide a voice notification to an end user while the end user is on an active voice call, where the voice notification includes information on a text message that was received. A system in one embodiment includes a message delivery system that receives a text message intended for a destination, and initiates delivery of the text message to the destination. The system also includes a message notification system that detects that the destination is engaged in an active voice call during the delivery of the text message, identifies information for the text message, converts the text message information into voice data to generate a voice notification, and initiates transmission of the voice notification to the destination to be played during the active voice call. | 01-03-2013 |
20130031231 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NOTIFYING ACCOUNT INFORMATION OF A DATA-TYPE-ORIENTED USER EQUIPMENT - The invention discloses a method of and apparatus for notifying account information of a data-type-oriented user equipment. The method comprises the steps of: determining whether each user satisfies a predetermined condition; and if the predetermined condition is satisfied, then causing a packet data network gateway to activate account information notification control information for the user, wherein the account information notification control information includes a network address of a web notification server. With the invention, the terminal user can get to know his own account information more timely to thereby adjust the usage mode of the wireless broadband data service according to the account information, for example, lower the frequency of accessing the service or disable the service for a duration to thereby avoid a large bill or perform prepayment charging to thereby prevent an important connection from breaking down due to an overdue account. An operator and a service provider can improve the user experience of the wireless broadband data service to thereby reduce the complaint of the user and avoid the loss of customers in the field of wireless broadband data services. In the inventive method, good compatibility with other types of user equipments is possible while offering the new function. | 01-31-2013 |
20130040685 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING QUALITY OF SERVICE OF USER EQUIPMENT - The invention provides a method and apparatus for controlling, in a policy and charging rules function entity, quality of service of a user equipment. The method includes the steps of: obtaining charging-related information of the user equipment ( | 02-14-2013 |
20130315230 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A USER WITH CHARGING-RELATED VOICE SERVICE - The present invention provides a ubiquitous solution for providing charge-related voice service such as voice announcement and interactive voice response in an IP multimedia subsystem. In particularly, an online charging system ( | 11-28-2013 |
20130322344 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ACQUIRING AND USING LOCATION INFORMATION - The present invention discloses a method and device for acquiring and using location information, where a mobility management entity acquires trusted user location information from a base station and provides a home subscriber server with the trusted location information. With enhanced interfaces between the home subscriber server, on one side, and a serving-call/session control function, a proxy subscriber server and the serving-call/session control function, an application server, an online charging system and an offline charging system respectively, on the other side, the home subscriber server can provide these network elements with the trusted user location information, and also with enhanced interfaces between the online charging system and the offline charging system, on one side, and the serving-call/session control function, the proxy subscriber server and the serving-call/session control function, and the application server respectively, on the other side, transmission of the trusted user location information via these interfaces can be supported. | 12-05-2013 |
20130326061 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DETERMINING POLICY AND CHARGING RULES BASED ON NETWORK RESOURCE UTILIZATION INFORMATION - The present invention provides a solution for determining a QoS policy and/or charging policy based on network resource utilization information in an LTE network. As compared to the current 3GPP policy and charging control architecture, the solution of the present invention determines a QoS policy and/or charging policy based on network resource utilization information in combination with existing input information, thereby making policy and charging control more flexible. | 12-05-2013 |
20140016763 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF RE-RATING FOR PREPAID USERS - A method for re-rating a prepaid user is proposed in the present invention. Compared with prior prepaid systems, the present invention introduces new functional entities, i.e. a re-rating management apparatus and an offline charging apparatus, and enhances the existing functional-entity, i.e. the online charging apparatus. The online charging apparatus rates call detail records comprised in an received online charging request to generate rated call detail records, and sends—the rated call detail records to the re-rating management apparatus; periodically backs up account profile, and sends the backed up account profile to the re-rating management apparatus; the re-rating management apparatus triggers re-rating, sends a re-rating request to the offline charging apparatus; the offline charging apparatus generates re-rated call detail records after re-calculating, the call detail records, and sends the re-rated call detail records to the re-rating management apparatus; and the re-rating management apparatus updates account profile in accordance with the re-rated call detail records, and sends the updated account profile to the online charging apparatus. By using the method of the present invention, the re-rating function can be implemented for the prepaid user without affecting the real-time use by the prepaid user, and the problems occurring in the convergence of a prepaid charging system and a postpaid charging system can be solved. | 01-16-2014 |
20140036785 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING QOS AND/OR POLICY AND CHARGING CONTROL OF A GUEST USER - The invention proposes a method and device for controlling QoS and/or policy and charging control of a guest user. The method proposes an innovative solution to extend the current policy and charging control architecture and online charging system to dynamically control the data connection of third party application services over network operator's network. This enables network operator and third party application provider to jointly provide QoS control service based on end user service usage limit. | 02-06-2014 |
20140101040 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHARGING IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - In an embodiment of the invention, there is proposed a method of initiating a charging request in a communication network, the method including the steps of: A. retrieving network context information of a web service from a data repository corresponding to the web service in response to a first charging request from the web service; B. generating a second charging request from the network: context information; and C. transmitting the second charging request to a charging system. With the foregoing solution, the access gateway of the web service or the web service gateway can retrieve network charging and policy information and other network context information of the web service from a network data repository and inserts the information into a charging request transmitted to a network charging system, and the charging system can use the, network context information to charging for the charging request. | 04-10-2014 |
20140215072 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TERMINAL'S ACCESS TO A WIRELESS NETWORK - The present invention sets forth a method and apparatus for controlling terminal's access to a wireless network. When PCC rules in PCRF or account expense information in OCS have been updated, the PCRF or OCS will notify a MDM server; the server determines access status of application(s) based on information in the notification and notifies the terminal; the terminal will update locally stored access status of the application based on access status of the application contained in the received notification message; when an application on the terminal initiates a request to access the wireless network, the terminal determines whether it is rejected or allowed to access the wireless network based on the locally stored access status of the application. With the present method, when an end user is not allowed to use some network applications due to expense issue or other policy constraint, although the terminal will automatically attempt to send a request to retry connection, that request to retry connection can not access wireless network, nor can it reach core network, so as to avoid consuming RF resource and core network resource. | 07-31-2014 |
20140286199 | METHOD OF ONLINE CHARGING A GUEST USER OF AN APPLICATION CONTENT PROVIDER - The invention proposes a method of integrating a service of an application content provider in an IMS core network, and the method includes the step of: allowing a network user to click-to-dial a mobile caller by using a network account. Preferably the step of allowing a network user to click-to-dial a mobile caller by using a network account is performed by providing an open application program interface between the application content provider and a call session control function. | 09-25-2014 |