Method and system for service control point billing

A system for billing for a query to a service control point, the system comprising:

• a billing center;
• a service switching point;
• and
• a service control point in communication with the billing center and the service switching point, the service control point operative to access data in a database in response to a query received from the service switching point, the data being associated with a data owner;
• wherein the service control point is further operative to transmit information to the billing center identifying the service switching point that sent the query and the data owner associated with the accessed data;
• wherein the information transmitted from the service control point to the billing center is not transmitted through a signal transfer point.

A service control point comprising:

• first computer readable program code operative to access data in a database in response to a query from a service switching point, the data being associated with a data owner;
• and
• second computer readable program code operative to transmit information to a billing center identifying the service switching point that sent the query and the data owner associated with the accessed data;
• wherein the information transmitted from the service control point to the billing center is not transmitted through a signal transfer point.