Providing communication service sessions
AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorDavid Banjo
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Abstract
A communication system and method thereof are configured to provide a service including a communication network including a charging entity and a service provision node. A user terminal is configured to transmit a session control message to the charging entity identifying a service provision threshold determined by a user of the user terminal for a session of the service requested by the user of the user terminal. Monitoring means is configured to monitor provision of the session and, if the provision of the session exceeds the service provision threshold, to notify the service provision node to performs a predetermined action upon receipt of the notification.
Claims26
A method, comprising:
- querying, by an authorization node, a user profile of a user of a mobile user equipment roaming between a first mobile operator and a second mobile operator, wherein the user is a subscriber of the first mobile operator;
- prompting the user, in accordance with the user profile, to input a service provision threshold for a particular session of service and a predetermined action to take when the service provision threshold is reached;
- receiving a session control message at a charging device in a communications network, the session control message initiating a charging with the charging device for the particular session of service, wherein the session control message includes the service provision threshold and the predetermined action input by the user, and wherein the particular session of service is requested by the user from the second mobile operator;
- identifying with the session control message the service provision threshold input by the user for the particular session of service and the predetermined action to take when the service provision threshold is reached;
- translating, by the charging device, the service provision threshold to a network resource limit value relevant for the particular session of the service requested from the second mobile operator;
- and
- transmitting the network resource limit value from the charging device to a service provision node of the second mobile operator, wherein the transmitted network resource limit value prompts the service provision node to meter a provision of the particular session of the service against the network resource limit value and perform the predetermined action when the provision of the particular session reaches the network resource limit value.
A system comprising:
- an authorization node processor and a charging device processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code that, when executed by at least the authorization node processor and charging device processor, causes at least the authorization node processor and charging device processor to perform a method, the method comprising:
- querying, by the authorization node processor, a user profile of a user of a mobile user equipment roaming between a first mobile operator and a second mobile operator, wherein the user is a subscriber of the first mobile operator;
- prompting the user, in accordance with the user profile, to input a service provision threshold for a particular session of service and a predetermined action to take when the service provision threshold is reached;
- receiving a session control message at the charging device processor residing in a communications network, the session control message initiating a charging with the charging device processor for the particular session of service, wherein the session control message includes the service provision threshold and the predetermined action input by the user, and wherein the particular session of service is requested by the user from the second mobile operator;
- identifying with the session control message the service provision threshold input by the user for the particular session of service and the predetermined action to take when the service provision threshold is reached;
- translating, by the charging device processor, the service provision threshold to a network resource limit value relevant for the particular session of the service requested from the second mobile operator;
- and
- transmitting the network resource limit value from the charging device processor to a service provision node of the second mobile operator, wherein the transmitted network resource limit value prompts the service provision node to meter a provision of the particular session of the service against the network resource limit value and perform the predetermined action when the provision of the particular session reaches the network resource limit value.
At least one non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by at least an authorization node processor and a charging device processor, causes at least the authorization node processor and charging device processor to perform a method, the method comprising:
- querying, by the authorization node processor, a user profile of a user of a mobile user equipment roaming between a first mobile operator and a second mobile operator, wherein the user is a subscriber of the first mobile operator;
- prompting the user, in accordance with the user profile, to input a service provision threshold for a particular session of service and a predetermined action to take when the service provision threshold is reached;
- receiving a session control message at the charging device processor residing in a communications network, the session control message initiating a charging with the charging device processor for the particular session of service, wherein the session control message includes the service provision threshold and the predetermined action input by the user, and wherein the particular session of service is requested by the user from the second mobile operator;
- identifying with the session control message the service provision threshold input by the user for the particular session of service and the predetermined action to take when the service provision threshold is reached;
- translating, by the charging device processor, the service provision threshold to a network resource limit value relevant for the particular session of the service requested from the second mobile operator;
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- transmitting the network resource limit value from the charging device processor to a service provision node of the second mobile operator, wherein the transmitted network resource limit value prompts the service provision node to meter a provision of the particular session of the service against the network resource limit value and perform the predetermined action when the provision of the particular session reaches the network resource limit value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.