Telecommunication system for monitoring and controlling of a network providing resource to a user

A telecommunication system for controlling a distribution of a resource via a distribution grid consisting of segments, the telecommunication system comprising a rating system, a processing system, a database, and network components configured to control consumption of the resource and to generate resource usage records, (RURs), wherein each RUR comprises a resource consumption description of the resource delivered via the distribution grid and device identification information comprising a device identification of a network component which has generated the each RUR, the processing system being configured to perform the following steps:

• receiving a RUR from one of the network components for the resource consumed by a user,
• identifying a segment of the distribution grid and a user type of the user by using an the device identification information comprised in the received RUR,
• generating a record in a database, the record comprising a resource consumption description comprised in the received RUR and the device identification information comprised in the received RUR, the record being associated with the identified segment and the identified user type;
• wherein the rating system is configured to generate charge amounts for resource usage consumption descriptions comprised in records complying with a selection criterion specifying that a record to be selected has the identified user type and the identified segment, wherein the processing system is configured to perform the following steps in response to receiving of a request to change the billing rule:
• changing the billing rule according to the request,
• selecting records according to the selection criterion,
• identifying device identifications comprised in the selected records,
• sending a description of the changed billing rule to network components which device identifications are identified,
• wherein at least one of the network components is configured to perform the following in response to receiving of the description:
• adapting control of the resource consumption according to the received description.

A computer-implemented method for processing of resource usage records, RURs, in a network database system comprising a rating system a processing system including a database, and a network component configured to generate the RURs, the rating system, the processing system, and the network component each connected to at least one network, and each configured to communicate with each other via the at least one network each of the RURs comprising a resource usage description of usage of one of resources and a device identification information, the method comprising:

• receiving a RUR from the network component for a resource provided to a user,
• identifying a resource type of the resource by using a resource usage description comprised in the received RUR,
• identifying a user type of the user by using the device identification information comprised in the received RUR,
• generating a record in the database, the record comprising the resource usage description comprised in the received RUR, device identification information comprised in the received RUR, the record being associated with the identified resource type and the identified user type,
• selecting a plurality of records in the database, each of the selected records complying with a selection criterion specifying that a record to be selected is associated with a resource type assigned to the selection criterion and a user type assigned to the selection criterion, and
• sending batch data to the rating system, the batch data comprising a plurality of resource usage descriptions, each included in the respective selected record of the plurality of selected records, and
• wherein, in response to receiving of the batch data from the processing system the rating system performs:
• generating a charge amount for each of the resource usage descriptions comprised in the batch data, and
• sending a billing data to the processing system, the billing data comprising the charge amounts.