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US 11,864,069 B2Granted
Network slice based billing
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsAmit Agarwal, Rajpal Bhoria, Praveen Joseph
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Abstract
Techniques are described herein for network sliced based billing. In one example, a control center obtains, from a charging system, a charging data record that includes an indication of a network slice associated with a chargeable telecommunications event. Based on the indication of the network slice, the control center identifies a charging rate for the chargeable telecommunications event and applies the charging rate to the chargeable telecommunications event.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- storing, in a billing data store, data indicative of a provider of a network slice associated with a chargeable telecommunications event and data indicative of a provider of a service associated with the chargeable telecommunications event;
- obtaining, from a charging system, a charging data record that includes an indication of the network slice associated with the chargeable telecommunications event;
- based on the charging data record, retrieving from the billing data store the data indicative of the provider of the network slice associated with the chargeable telecommunications event and the data indicative of the provider of the service associated with the chargeable telecommunications event;
- based on one or more of the indication of the network slice, the provider of the network slice, or the provider of the service, identifying a charging rate for the chargeable telecommunications event;
- and
- applying the charging rate to the chargeable telecommunications event.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a network interface configured to obtain or provide network communications;
- one or more memories, and
- one or more processors coupled to the network interface, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:
- store, in a billing data store of the one or more memories, data indicative of a provider of a network slice associated with a chargeable telecommunications event and data indicative of a provider of a service associated with the chargeable telecommunications event;
- obtain, from a charging system, a charging data record that includes an indication of the network slice associated with the chargeable telecommunications event;
- based on the charging data record, retrieve from the billing data store the data indicative of the provider of the network slice associated with the chargeable telecommunications event and the data indicative of the provider of the service associated with the chargeable telecommunications event;
- based on one or more of the indication of the network slice, the data indicative of the provider of the network slice or the data indicated of the provider of the service, identify a charging rate for the chargeable telecommunications event;
- and
- apply the charging rate to the chargeable telecommunications event.
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One or more non-transitory computer readable storage media encoded with instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- store, in a billing data store, data indicative of a provider of a network slice associated with a chargeable telecommunications event and data indicative of a provider of a service associated with the chargeable telecommunications event;
- obtain, from a charging system, a charging data record that includes an indication of the network slice associated with the chargeable telecommunications event;
- based on the charging data record, retrieved from the billing data store the data indicative of the provider of the network slice associated with the chargeable telecommunications event and the data indicative of the provider of the service associated with the chargeable telecommunications event;
- based on one or more of the indication of the network slice, the data indicative of the provider of the network slice or the data indicative of the provider of the service, identify a charging rate for the chargeable telecommunications event;
- and
- apply the charging rate to the chargeable telecommunications event.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.