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专利名称：Method, means and a computer program

product for managing online charging in acommunications network

发明人：Matti Salonen,Antti Romppanen申请号：US12153668申请日：20080522公开号：US07684551B2公开日：20100323

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摘要：A method of online charging in a communication network. The method includesreceiving a service request from a user, determining whether the service request is an

access network session, a media network session or a service network session,determining if a type of charging model the user wants to use to provide the servicerequest is an event based model, a volume based model, a time based model, an eventbased model or a combination of the models, determining which network elementcorresponding to the access network session, the media network session and the servicenetwork session in the communication network is responsible for providing the servicerequest from the user, and provisioning identification rules for providing the servicerequest to the network element that is determined to be responsible for providing theservice request from the user. Further, the step of provisioning the identification rulescomprises updating the rules when the access network session, the media networksession and the service network session interact with each other in a charging transactionrequested in the service request from the user.

申请人：Matti Salonen,Antti Romppanen

地址：Espoo FI,Kerava FI

国籍：FI,FI

代理机构：Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

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