Method and Device for Charging Local Traffic on Wireless Side
AssigneeZte Corporation
InventorsKaifu QIU, Zhixiong ZHOU, Zhuo CUI, Jun HUANG, Guiliang LI, Hong LAI
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Abstract
The embodiment of the present document discloses a method and apparatus for charging local traffic on a wireless side, which relate to the communication field. The method comprises: a wireless-side network element collecting data traffic and a corresponding IP address of user equipment (UE), searching for UE identification information matching the IP address, and updating the data traffic to a charging data record (CDR) of the corresponding UE, and sending to a charging gateway (CG). The embodiment of the present document can support charging on a wireless access side.
Claims16
A method for charging local traffic on a wireless side, comprising:
- a wireless-side network element collecting data traffic and an IP address of a user equipment (UE), and
- searching for UE identification information matching the IP address, and updating the data traffic to a charging data record (CDR) of the UE corresponding to the UE identification information, and sending the CDR to a charging gateway (CG).
An apparatus for charging local traffic on a wireless side, comprising:
- a deep packet inspection (DPI) module, configured to collect data traffic and an IP address of a user equipment (UE), and
- a charging information generation module, configured to search for UE identification information matching the IP address, and update the data traffic to a charging data record (CDR) of the UE corresponding to the UE identification information, and send the CDR to a charging gateway (CG).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.