Telephonic communications – With usage measurement – Call charge metering or monitoring
Reexamination Certificate
2006-11-14
2006-11-14
Tran, Quoc (Department: 2614)
Telephonic communications
With usage measurement
Call charge metering or monitoring
C379S114070, C379S124000, C379S128000, C370S352000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07136469
ABSTRACT:
A service selection gateway (SSG) which receives data indicating tariff switching points, and sends accounting records enabling accurate computation of traffic volumes in each switching duration is described. In one embodiment, a counter value indicating the traffic volume for each tariff duration is sent. In an alternative embodiment, at least one accounting record containing two counters is sent in each duration, with one counter indicating an aggregate count of traffic volume (e.g., since the subscriber started a session) and another counter containing a marginal (or incremental) value since a switching point. Such an accounting record can be sent at any time point in a tariff duration, and the traffic volume in each tariff duration can be computed accurately.
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Agarwal Navneet
Centemeri Marco Cesare
Phadnis Amit S.
Ravindranath Vinodh Kumar
Cisco Technology Inc.
Thappeta Narendra Reddy
Tran Quoc
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