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US 8,131,257 B2Granted
Method for selecting and switching accounting mode, and device thereof
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorJin Zhang
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Abstract
A method for selecting an accounting mode, a method for switching an accounting mode, and a device therefor. The method for switching an accounting mode includes: notifying a prepaid accounting server to establish a session; assigning an accounting quota of the session to the prepaid client; notifying the prepaid accounting server that the accounting quota of the session is depleted, and notifying the prepaid client to stop the prepaid accounting; keeping the session established and notifying an AAA server to start a postpaid accounting.
Claims6
A method for switching an accounting mode, comprising:
- notifying, by a prepaid client of an access service network gateway, a prepaid accounting server to establish a session;
- assigning, by the prepaid accounting server, an accounting quota of the session to the prepaid client;
- notifying, by the prepaid client of the access service network gateway, the prepaid accounting server that the accounting quota of the session is depleted;
- notifying, by the prepaid accounting server, the prepaid client of the access service network gateway to stop the prepaid accounting;
- keeping the session established;
- determining, by the access service network gateway, whether a subscriber is allowed to switch to the postpaid accounting mode;
- and
- notifying, by an accounting client of the access service network gateway, an authentication, authorization and accounting server to start a postpaid accounting if the subscriber is allowed to switch to the postpaid accounting mode.
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