Billing based on equivalent quality of service units
AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorsTeh-Li Hsi, Albert J. Sawyer, Chokri Trabelsi, Yang Yang
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method that may be used for billing for quality of service applications. The method includes determining at least one parameter indicative of resource usage of at least one first quality of service application by comparing at least one resource used by the first quality of service application(s) to at least one resource used by a second quality of service application. The method also includes providing information indicative of at least one cost associated with the first quality of service application(s) based on the comparison and at least one cost associated with the second quality of service application.
Claims12
A method for implementation in a wireless communication system and, comprising:
- calculating, in the wireless communication system, resource usage of a reference application in meeting a reference quality-of-service (QoS) during wireless communication in the wireless communication system;
- setting a reference billing rate based on the resource usage of the reference application in meeting the reference QoS;
- calculating, in the wireless communication system, resource usage of a target application in meeting a target QoS during wireless communication in the wireless communication system;
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- setting a target billing rate using a processor for the resource usage of the target application in meeting the target QoS based on the reference billing rate and a ratio of the resource usage of the target application to the resource usage of the reference application.
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