Charging method and apparatus, and system
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsLi Li, Runze Zhou
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Abstract
A charging method, including sending, by a control plane gateway, a first charging trigger event to a user plane gateway, where the first charging trigger event triggering the user plane gateway to generate service usage information, generating, by the user plane gateway, the service usage information when the user plane gateway detects that the first charging trigger event occurs, sending, by the user plane gateway, the service usage information to the control plane gateway, generating, by the control plane gateway, a charging request according to the service usage information, and sending, by the control plane gateway, the charging request to a charging system. Offline charging during packet data network gateway (PGW) control and user (CU) separation is implemented.
Claims20
A charging method implemented by a control plane gateway, the charging method comprising:
- determining that a first charging trigger event comprising a user location change has occurred;
- sending, to a user plane gateway in response to determining that the first charging event has occurred, a message to indicate to immediately report service usage information to the control plane gateway;
- receiving, from the user plane gateway, the service usage information;
- and
- sending, in response to receiving the service usage information from the user plane gateway, a charging request comprising the service usage information to a charging system that is separate from the user plane gateway and the control plane gateway.
A system comprising a control plane gateway and a user plane gateway, wherein:
- the control plane gateway is configured to:
- determine that a first charging trigger event comprising a user location change has occurred;
- send, in response to determining that the first charging trigger event has occurred, a message to the user plane gateway to indicate to immediately report service usage information to the control plane gateway;
- receive the service usage information;
- and
- send, in response to receiving the service usage information, a charging request to a charging system that is separate from the control plane gateway;
- and
- the user plane gateway is configured to:
- receive, from the control plane gateway, the message indicating to immediately report service usage information to the control plane gateway;
- send, to the control plane gateway, the service usage information to prompt the control plane gateway to send the charging request,
- wherein the user plane gateway is separate from the charging system.
A system comprising a control plane gateway, a user plane gateway and a charging system, wherein:
- the control plane gateway is configured to:
- determine that a first charging trigger event comprising a user location change has occurred;
- send, in response to determining that the user location change has occurred, a message to the user plane gateway to indicate immediately report service usage information to the control plane gateway;
- receive, the service usage information;
- and
- send, in response to receiving the service usage information, a charging request to a charging system that is separate from the control plane gateway;
- the user plane gateway is configured to:
- receive, from the control plane gateway, the message indicating to immediately report service usage information to the control plane gateway;
- send, to the control plane gateway in response to receiving the message, the service usage information to prompt the control plane gateway to send the charging request, wherein the user plane gateway is separate from the charging system;
- and
- the charging system is configured to receive the charging request from the control plane gateway.
A charging apparatus, comprising
- a computer-readable storage medium configured to store programming instructions;
- and
- a processor coupled to the computer-readable storage medium, the programming instructions causing the processor to be configured to:
- determine that a first charging trigger event comprising a user location change has occurred;
- send, to a user plane gateway in response to determining that the first charging trigger event has occurred, a message to indicate to immediately report service usage information to the control plane gateway;
- receive, from the user plane gateway, the service usage information;
- and
- send, in response to receiving the service usage information from the user plane gateway, a charging request comprising the service usage information to a charging system that is separate from the user plane gateway and the control plane gateway.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.