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US 12,707,236 B2Granted
Charging method, apparatus, and system
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsYishan Xu, Hualin Zhu, Haoren Zhu, Yu Zhou
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Abstract
A first network element or an access network device determines, based on identification information of one or more terminals on which a first operation is performed and type information of the first operation, quantity information of the first operation that is performed, and the first network element sends charging information including the type information and the quantity information to a charging function network element.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a first device, charging related information of at least one second device from the at least one second device;
- obtaining, by the first device, charging information based on the charging related information of the at least one second device, wherein the charging information indicates identification information of one or more terminals on which a first operation is performed, quantity information of the one or more terminals on which the first operation is performed, operation type information corresponding to the first operation, an accumulated quantity of operation times that corresponds to the first operation, an operation performing frequency, a frequency for performing the first operation, an amount of signaling exchanged in a process of performing the first operation, and an operation requester that performs the first operation;
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- sending, by the first device, the charging information;
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- wherein determining, by the first device, the charging information based on the charging related information of the at least one second device comprises:
- de-duplicating, by the first device, identification information or quantity information of terminals on which the first operation is repeatedly performed in the charging related information of the at least one second device, to obtain de-duplicated charging related information of the at least one second device, and using the de-duplicated charging related information of the at least one second device as the charging information.
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A communication apparatus, comprising:
- at least one processor, wherein
- the at least one processor is configured to read instructions from at least one memory and run the instructions, and running the instructions causes the at least one processor to:
- receive charging related information of at least one second device from the at least one second device;
- obtain charging information based on the charging related information of the at least one second device, wherein the charging information indicates identification information of one or more terminals on which a first operation is performed, quantity information of the one or more terminals on which the first operation is performed, operation type information corresponding to the first operation, an accumulated quantity of operation times that corresponds to the first operation, an operation performing frequency, a frequency for performing the first operation, an amount of signaling exchanged in a process of performing the first operation, and an operation requester that performs the first operation;
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- send the charging information;
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- wherein determining the charging information based on the charging related information of the at least one second device comprises:
- de-duplicating identification information or quantity information of terminals on which the first operation is repeatedly performed in the charging related information of the at least one second device, to obtain de-duplicated charging related information of the at least one second device, and using the de-duplicated charging related information of the at least one second device as the charging information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.