Method and device for providing more accurate subscriber device billing
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorsJay Jayapalan, Shreesha Ramanna
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Abstract
A PDSN (18) includes a usage recording agent (19) for distinguishing between nonbillable and billable activity of a subscriber device 12. The usage recording agent (19) creates a record of a total number of bytes transmitted from the PDSN (18) to the RAN (14), counts bytes that are retransmitted from the PDSN (18) for providing a retransmitted byte total, and forwards the retransmitted byte total and the record to an AAA (28) so that the record can be adjusted in accordance with the retransmitted byte total.
Claims21
A method for more accurately recording subscriber device activity comprising:
- creating a record that comprises a total number of bytes transmitted from a packet data serving node;
- counting bytes that are retransmitted from the packet data serving node for providing a retransmitted byte total;
- and
- forwarding the retransmitted byte total to an accounting node so that the record can be adjusted in accordance with the retransmitted byte total.
A method for more accurately recording subscriber device activity comprising:
- creating a record that comprises a total number of bytes transmitted from a packet data serving node;
- counting bytes that are retransmitted from the packet data serving node for providing a retransmitted byte total;
- adjusting the record in accordance with the retransmitted byte total by subtracting the retransmitted byte total from the total number of bytes for providing an adjusted record.
A method for more accurately recording subscriber device activity comprising:
- determining if bearer data was sent during an airtime period in which a subscriber device is on a traffic channel;
- and
- forwarding an airtime record of data activity during the airtime period to an authentication authorization and accounting node only if the determining if bearer data was sent during an airtime period determines that bearer data was sent, thereby preventing signaling data from distorting a total record of total data activity during all airtime periods.
A method for more accurately recording subscriber device activity comprising:
- determining if a subscriber device has responded to a notification of data arrival sent from a radio access network;
- and
- accumulating a byte count only if the determining if a subscriber device has responded to a notification of data arrival sent from a radio access network determines that the subscriber device has responded to the notification of data arrival.
A usage recording agent arranged to provide accurate billing of a subscriber device, the usage recording agent when installed and executing at a serving node resulting in the serving node:
- determining if predetermined nonbillable activity was performed during a time period;
- creating a record corresponding to the nonbillable activity;
- and
- forwarding the record to an accounting node so that a transmitted byte total can be adjusted in accordance with the record.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.