Method and system for creating real time integrated Call Details Record (CDR) databases in management systems of telecommunication networks
AssigneeEctel Ltd.
InventorMoshe Zolotov
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Abstract
A method and a system for building an Integrated Call Detail Records data base in a telecommunications network in real time, by collecting call related events concerning a particular call from two or more data sources by at least one suitable probe, merging the call related events and recording the merged events with respect to each particular call in real time using computerized means associated with the probe(s). The data sources may be mixed, i.e. comprising at least one bearer data source and at least one signaling data source; however, they may be sources of signaling data only. The sources of information may be situated at different interface points of the communication network.
Claims20
A method for building an Integrated Call Detail records data base in a telecommunications network in real time, comprising the steps of:
- collecting input information concerning a particular call from two or more data sources wherein at least one of said data sources is a source of signaling data and at least another of said data sources is a non-signaling bearer source of non-signaling data, said input information comprising call related events;
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- merging said call related events and recording the merged events concerning the particular call in real time, thereby forming the Integrated Call Detail Records data base.
A system for building an Integrated Call Detail records data base in a telecommunications network in real time, comprising:
- at least one probe capable of collecting input information, concerning a particular call, from two or more data sources wherein at least one of said data sources is a source of signaling data and at least another of said data sources is a non-signaling bearer source of non-signaling data, said probe being capable of picking out call related events from said input information;
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- computerized means connected to said at least one probe and adapted to merge said call related events and record the merged events concerning the particular call in real time, thereby creating the Integrated Call Detail Records data base.
A method for building an Integrated Call Detail Records data base in a telecommunications network in real time, comprising the steps of:
- (a) applying a first probe to a telecommunications bearer network and extracting call related events concerning a particular call therefrom;
- (b) applying a second probe to a telecommunications signaling network associated with said bearer network and extracting further call related events concerning the particular call therefrom;
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- (c) merging and recording said extracted call related events and further call related events in real time thereby forming the Integrated Call Detail Records data base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.