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US 10,142,493 B2Granted
Online charging system (OCS) controlled media policy
AssigneeConversant Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.
InventorsMarco Stura, Pertti Rantala, Jani Ekman, Juha-Pekka Koskinen, Anne Narhi, Juha R. Vallinen
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Abstract
A method of communication comprising the steps of: requesting at least one service having a plurality of parts; determining if said at least one service can be provided taking into account credit information relating to a user; and if not providing only one or some of said plurality of parts of said at least one service.
Claims10
A method comprising:
- receiving, at an apparatus, a registration message from a user apparatus;
- downloading, at the apparatus, subscription information from a Home Subscriber Server (HSS), the HSS storing subscription information about a user associated with the user apparatus;
- after the subscription information is downloaded from the HSS at the apparatus, transmitting, from the apparatus to a second apparatus, a credit control message, the credit control message comprising a request for a balance associated with the user, wherein the second apparatus is an Online Charging System (OCS);
- receiving, at the apparatus from the second apparatus, a credit control response message, the credit control response message based at least in part on a determination of a balance associated with the user and indicating at least one allowed media component;
- and
- transmitting, from the apparatus, a reply to the registration message indicating a media control policy based on the credit control response message, the media control policy indicating a set of available services and a set of unavailable services.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a data processing unit;
- a memory coupled to the data processing unit, the data processing unit configured to:
- receive, at an apparatus, a registration message from a user apparatus;
- download, at the apparatus, subscription from a Home Subscriber Server (HSS), the HSS storing subscription information about a user associated with the user apparatus;
- after the subscription information is downloaded from the HSS at the apparatus, transmit, from the apparatus to a second apparatus, a credit control message, the credit control message comprising a request for a balance associated with the user, wherein the second apparatus is an Online Charging System (OCS);
- receive, at the apparatus from the second apparatus, a credit control response message, the credit control response message based at least in part on a determination of the balance associated with the user and indicating at least one allowed media component;
- and
- transmit, from the apparatus, a reply to the registration message indicating a media control policy based on the credit control response message, the media control policy indicating a set of available services and a set of unavailable services.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.