CN1450749A - Fee counting method for group business - Google Patents

Abstract

A charging method carries on grade division for service quality provided by the network for the user (QOS) first, then charge rate confirmed as per QOS grade, corresponding table of QOS service quality grade to charge rate are stored in charging system; and finally the network charging system confirms that the final user's cost should be product of the charge rate corresponded by QOS grade and data transmitting quantity according to the user's data transmitting quantity and corresponding QOS grade of service provided actually for the user when charging operation is on.

Description

A charging method for packet data service

technical field

The present invention relates to all communication systems that can provide packet data services, and in particular relates to a charging method for packet data services in the communication systems.

Background technique

In the current charging method based on packet services in the communication system, the charging operation for the user is mainly carried out according to the amount of data transmitted by the user, and the final fee of the user is determined according to the amount of data and the tariff of the unit data amount. The main disadvantage of the above-mentioned method is that the influence of the quality of service (QOS) factor is not considered in the charging process. During the transmission of packet data services, QOS varies greatly, such as data transmission rate, delay, etc., and the quality of service provided when the network load is different is also different, sometimes even very different. Therefore, this billing method that does not consider the actual service quality is obviously unreasonable. For example, if two users with the same priority download the same amount of data from the Internet, one user spends a minute, while the other user spends an hour, their satisfaction with the service is obviously different, but the final payment is exactly the same . Therefore, the above-mentioned billing method based only on the amount of data transmitted by the user without considering the QOS actually obtained by the user obviously cannot meet the billing demand that the service and service quality obtained by the user conform to the fee paid.

Contents of the invention

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a reasonable billing method for packet data services, which can meet the billing requirements that the service obtained by the user and the quality of service and the fee paid are actually consistent with the utilization rate of network resources.

In order to achieve the above object, the billing method of the packet data service provided by the present invention includes:

(1) The network classifies the quality of service (QOS) that can be provided to the user, and stores the quality of service (QOS) level and its corresponding billing rate;

(2) Obtain the QOS level actually provided to the user and the data transmission volume of the user;

(3) Determine the final fee for the user according to the billing rate corresponding to the QOS level actually provided to the user.

The method also includes:

Establish the quality of service QOS grade classification table, and the correspondence table between QOS grade and billing rate, so as to determine the corresponding relationship between service quality and billing rate.

When a user accesses the network, among the quality of service levels provided by the network to the user, the QOS level of the service quality actually provided by the network to the user is selected as the charging basis of the network.

The quality of service (QOS) level provided by the network to the user is jointly decided and determined based on the QOS level reported by the user according to the service requirement and the utilization rate of network resources. Users report the required QOS level to the network according to their own business. If the network resources are sufficient, the resource allocation will be carried out according to the QOS level reported by the user; if the network resources are insufficient, the network will choose one of the following steps to operate:

(1) The network and the user renegotiate the QOS level;

(2) The network provides users with a relatively low QOS level;

(3) The network rejects the user's service request.

In the billing process of the user in the present invention, the user reports the required QOS level according to its own business, and the network provides the user with the required QOS level as much as possible through the allocation and scheduling of resources. The amount of data transmitted is billed, so that the fee paid by the user is consistent with the service (data volume) and service quality (QOS level) obtained, and the service quality obtained by the user is consistent with the required service quality as much as possible.

Since the present invention can charge according to the user's service and service quality needs, and the corresponding payment is also most satisfactory to the user, it is a reasonable charging method.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of an embodiment of the method of the present invention;

Detailed ways

Due to the large difference in the QOS obtained by packet services during actual transmission, for example, the quality of service provided to users is different when the network load is different, and sometimes the difference is far, so the actual service should be considered when charging users quality impact. The essence of the present invention is to perform billing in consideration of the amount of data transmitted by the user and in combination with the actual QOS factors provided by the network system to the user. In this way, if users who obtain the same amount of data get different QOS, it means that the quality of service provided by the network is different, and the user satisfaction is also different, so it will also affect the user's billing. When the present invention is actually implemented, it is divided into several different service levels according to the quality of service that the network can provide, such as A, B, C, D, ... etc., and different QOS levels correspond to different charging rates (transmission unit data volume The higher the quality of service, the greater the corresponding billing rate n. The corresponding relationship between QOS levels and billing rates can be set according to specific network conditions and stored in the billing system. If the amount of data to be transmitted is M, and the rate corresponding to the QOS level that the network actually provides services to users is n, then the user's fee can be determined to be M*n.

The present invention will be described in further detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of an embodiment of the method of the present invention. According to Fig. 1, first in step 1, classify according to the quality of service that the network can provide (the method of classifying can be determined according to the specific network), such as A, B, C, D, ... and so on. Step 2: Determine the corresponding relationship between QOS grades and charging rates, and store the table in the charging system. The example table is as follows: service quality level A B C D. E. billing rate 0.5 yuan/KB 0.4 yuan/KB 0.3 yuan/KB 0.2 yuan/KB 0.1 yuan/KB

The above table shows that the network has determined 5 quality levels that can provide services to users according to its own conditions, and each quality level corresponds to a different charging rate, that is, charging parameters, where level A is the highest level for users ; The table can also be adjusted according to the specific situation. Step 3, when the user accesses the network, the user reports the required QOS level according to the service requirement; Step 4, the network provides the user with the QOS level that matches as much as possible according to the QOS level reported by the user and the network resource status. The network billing system obtains the quality of service (QOS) grade of the user in step 5 when billing, determines the billing rate of the user according to the quality of service grade, then obtains the data transmission amount of the user in step 6, and finally in step 7, Determine the final cost of the user as the product of the billing rate and the data transmission volume. Assuming that the service quality level provided by the user to the user in step 4 is B, the corresponding billing rate is 0.4 yuan/kilobit (KB), and the billing data volume of the user is 50K, then the cost of this user data transmission is 0.4 *50, a total of 20 yuan.

Claims (5)

1. A charging method for packet data services, comprising: (1) The network classifies the quality of service (QOS) that can be provided to the user, and stores the quality of service (QOS) level and its corresponding billing rate; (2) Obtain the QOS level actually provided to the user and the data transmission volume of the user; (3) Determine the final fee for the user according to the billing rate corresponding to the QOS level actually provided to the user. 2. The charging method for packet data services according to claim 1, characterized in that the method further comprises: establishing a correspondence table between QOS levels and charging rates to determine the corresponding relationship between quality of service and charging rates. 3. The charging method for packet data services according to claim 2, characterized in that the method further comprises: when a user accesses the network, taking the QOS level of the service actually provided by the network to the user as the network charging basis. 4. The charging method for packet data services according to claim 3, characterized in that: the QOS level provided by the network to the user is jointly determined according to the QOS level reported by the user according to the service requirement and the network resource status. 5. The billing method for packet data services according to claim 4, characterized in that when the user reports the required QOS level to the network according to his own business, if the network resources are sufficient, resource allocation is performed according to the QOS level reported by the user ; If the network resources are insufficient, the network chooses one of the following steps to operate: (1) The network and the user renegotiate the QOS level; (2) The network provides users with a relatively low QOS level; (3) The network rejects the user's service request.