CN106936601A - A kind of business charging method and device - Google Patents

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention discloses a service charging method and device, which relate to the field of communication technology, can reduce the calculation amount in the service charging process, simplify the charging process, and further reduce the consumption of system performance. The specific scheme is as follows: obtain the service usage information of a user's current service; determine the tariff policy subscribed by the user for the current service, and determine the billing factor of the current service from the tariff policy subscribed by the user for the current service; The billing factor matches the pre-stored historical billing results, which include the billing factor and the billing result corresponding to the billing factor; if there is a historical billing result that matches the billing factor of the current service, The historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service is used, and the current service is charged according to the service usage information of the current service, so as to obtain the charging result of the current service. The invention is used in the billing process of telecommunication services.

Description

A service charging method and device

technical field

The present invention relates to the technical field of communications, in particular to a service charging method and device.

Background technique

With the development of the electronic information industry, operators can design a variety of tariff strategies for customers to choose from for different customer groups, so as to meet the business needs of customers. Operators can configure these into the billing system to form tariff data, so as to charge user services according to the tariff policies subscribed by users and their service usage.

The process of charging user services in the prior art may include: obtaining the charging number of the user, the service type of the current service (such as data service and voice service), and charging factors such as service usage; Tariff strategy; use the above billing factors to match each tariff strategy respectively, and perform billing (that is, calculate the fee that the user should pay when only this tariff strategy is applicable), and obtain the calculation result; combine the billing results of multiple tariff strategies Combining (such as selecting the calculation result of the tariff policy with the least tariff among all the calculation results) is performed to obtain the final charging result.

However, in the charging process of user services in the prior art, it is necessary to adopt each charging strategy one by one and step by step for charging separately, and then combine the calculation results of multiple charging strategies, the process is complicated and consumes a lot of system performance. big.

Contents of the invention

Embodiments of the present invention provide a service charging method and device, which can reduce the calculation amount in the service charging process, simplify the charging process, and further reduce the consumption of system performance.

In order to achieve the above object, embodiments of the present invention adopt the following technical solutions:

According to the first aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, a service charging method is provided, including:

Obtaining service usage information of a user's current service;

determining the tariff policy ordered by the user for the current service, and determining the billing factor of the current service from the tariff policy subscribed by the user for the current service;

Using the charging factor of the current service to match the pre-stored historical charging result, the historical charging result includes the charging factor and the charging result corresponding to the charging factor;

If there is a historical charging result that matches the charging factor of the current service, then adopt the historical charging result that matches the charging factor of the current service, and calculate the current service for the current service according to the service usage information of the current service Charging, to obtain the charging result of the current service.

Through this solution, the charging factor of the current service can be determined from the tariff policy ordered by the user for the current service, and then the charging factor of the current service is used to match the historical charging results, and there is a history of matching the charging factor of the current service If the billing results are obtained, the historical billing results can be directly reused to bill the current service, instead of using each tariff strategy one by one and step by step. Multiplexing the historical charging results to charge the current service can reduce the calculation amount in the service charging process, simplify the charging process, and further reduce the consumption of system performance.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the embodiment of the present invention, the charging factor of the current service includes: at least one of a precise charging factor, a complex charging factor, and a stepped charging factor;

Wherein, the precise billing factor is a billing factor whose value range is limited and whose value directly affects the billing result;

The complex billing factor is a billing factor whose operation result after logical operation affects the billing result;

The step billing factor is a billing factor whose value range cannot be enumerated, is regulated by a mathematical formula, and can be converted into the precise billing factor after mapping.

In this solution, the charging factors are divided into three types according to different user services: precise charging factors, complex charging factors, and stepped charging factors. The billing factor in this scheme can be at least one of the precise billing factor, the complex billing factor and the step billing factor; thus, through this scheme, the precise billing factor, the complex billing factor and the step billing factor can be adopted Any one or any combination of charging factors can match the historical charging results, so as to charge the current service.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the embodiment of the present invention, the precise charging factor includes: a precise factor identifier and a precise factor value;

The complex charging factors include: complex factor identification, complex factor functions and complex factor parameters;

The step charging factor includes: a step factor identifier, a step factor function, a step tariff identifier and a step factor parameter.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the embodiment of the present invention, the charging results included in the historical charging results and corresponding to the charging factors include: historical charging formulas and service charging at least one of the results;

The historical billing formula is a mathematical formula for billing calculation corresponding to the billing factor obtained by summarizing the historical billing process;

The service charging result is the charging amount required for using the fixed service corresponding to the charging factor and obtained in the historical charging process.

For billing factors with relatively simple tariff policies, the corresponding billing results can be the above-mentioned service billing results (that is, the billing amount required for using fixed services), for example, the billing amount for using a data flow package is fixed For billing factors with more complex tariff policies, the corresponding billing results may need to use certain mathematical formulas for billing calculations. For example, when the duration of voice communication is greater than a certain threshold, the billing The amount satisfies a certain linear relationship with the voice communication duration within the fixed threshold interval.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the embodiment of the present invention, the charging factor of the current service includes: the precise charging factor and the complex charging factor;

The billing factors of the current service include: the precise billing factor and the complex billing factor;

The matching of the pre-stored historical charging results using the charging factor of the current service includes:

Matching a first charging result by using the precise charging factor, where the first charging result is the historical charging result;

If there is a second charging result, matching the second charging result with the complex charging factor, where the second charging result is the first charging result that matches the precise charging factor billing result;

If there is a historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, then adopting the historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, according to the service usage information of the current service for the Current service charging, to obtain the charging result of the current service, including:

If there is a third charging result, adopt the third charging result, charge the current service according to the service usage information of the current service, and the third charging result is the second charging result The charging result matched with the complex charging factor in order to obtain the charging result of the current service.

Since the precise billing factor is a billing factor with a limited value range and its direct value affects the billing result, and the complex billing factor is a billing factor whose calculation result after logical operation affects the billing result; Compared with complex billing factors, billing factors are easier to match historical billing results, that is, accurate billing factors are more likely to directly reuse historical billing results.

In this way, when the billing factors of the current service include precise billing factors and complex billing factors, the precise billing factor is first used to match the historical billing result (the first billing result), and then the complex billing factor is used to match the exact billing factor. The historical charging result (second charging result) matched by the charging factor can improve the possibility of successful matching and the possibility of reusing the historical charging result.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the embodiment of the present invention, the charging factor of the current service includes: the precise charging factor, the complex charging factor, and the stepped charging factor;

The matching of the pre-stored historical charging results using the charging factor of the current service includes:

Matching a first charging result by using the precise charging factor, where the first charging result is the historical charging result;

If there is a second charging result, matching the second charging result with the complex charging factor, where the second charging result is the first charging result that matches the precise charging factor billing result;

If there is a third charging result, matching the third charging result with the stepped charging factor, where the third charging result is the second charging result that matches the complex charging factor billing result;

If there is a historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, then adopting the historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, according to the service usage information of the current service for the Current service charging, to obtain the charging result of the current service, including:

If there is a fourth charging result, adopt the fourth charging result, charge the current service according to the service usage information of the current service, and the fourth charging result is the third charging result The charging result matched with the step charging factor in order to obtain the charging result of the current service.

Since the precise billing factor is a billing factor with a limited value range and its direct value affects the billing result, and the complex billing factor is a billing factor whose calculation result after logical operation affects the billing result, step billing The factor is a billing factor whose value range is not enumerable, regularized by mathematical formula, and can be converted into the precise billing factor after mapping; therefore, it can be seen that the precise billing factor is easier to match the historical billing than the complex billing factor As a result, accurate billing factors are more likely to directly reuse historical billing results; complex billing factors are easier to match historical billing results than ladder billing factors, that is, complex billing factors reuse historical billing results The probability of the result is higher than the possibility of multiplexing the historical charging results by the step charging factor.

In this way, when the billing factors of the current service include precise billing factors, complex billing factors, and step billing factors, matching historical billing results with precise billing factors, complex billing factors, and step billing factors can improve The probability of successful matching and the possibility of reusing historical billing results.

Preferably, in a possible implementation of the embodiment of the present invention, the charging factor of the current service includes a serialized characteristic value corresponding to the charging factor of the current service, and the serialized characteristic value is used for unique identify the charging factor;

The historical billing results include billing factors and billing results corresponding to the billing factors, specifically:

The historical charging results include serialized characteristic values to be matched and charging results corresponding to the serialized characteristic values to be matched, and one serialized characteristic value to be matched is used to uniquely identify a charging factor.

It is conceivable that, in order to improve the matching speed of the billing factor and the historical billing result, the billing factor can be serialized in the embodiment of the present invention, and a serialized characteristic value that can uniquely identify the billing factor can be generated for it, Then, the matching of the billing factor and the historical billing result is realized through the matching of serialized characteristic values.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the embodiment of the present invention, the matching of the pre-stored historical charging results using the charging factor of the current service includes:

Using the serialized characteristic value corresponding to the billing factor of the current service to match the pre-stored serialized characteristic value to be matched;

Wherein, when the serialized characteristic value corresponding to the charging factor of the current service is equal to a serialized characteristic value to be matched, the charging factor of the current service matches the charging result corresponding to the serialized characteristic value to be matched.

Further, in a possible implementation manner of the embodiment of the present invention, the service charging method further includes:

If there is no historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, each of the charging strategies subscribed by the user for the current service is adopted to charge the current service, so that Obtain the charging result of the current service.

In this solution, when there is no historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, each of the charging policies subscribed by the user for the current service may be used to charge the current service. In this way, no matter whether there is a historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, the current service can be charged through this solution, and the charging result of the current service can be obtained.

It should be noted that "there is no historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service" mentioned here in the embodiment of the present invention includes: "there is no historical charging result matching the above-mentioned precise charging factor", Either one of "there is no historical charging result matching the above-mentioned complex charging factor" and "there is no historical charging result matching the above-mentioned tiered charging factor".

It should be emphasized that when the billing factors of the current service include: precise billing factor and complex billing factor, or the billing factors of the current service include: precise billing factor, complex billing factor and stepped billing factor, if If there is no historical charging result matching the above-mentioned precise charging factor, it is not necessary to use complex charging factors to match the historical charging result.

Similarly, when the billing factors of the current service include: precise billing factors, complex billing factors, and step billing factors, if there is no historical billing result that matches the above complex billing factors, it is not necessary to use step billing again. The fee factor matches historical charging results.

Optionally, if there is no historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, each of the charging policies subscribed by the user for the current service is adopted respectively, for all After charging the current service to obtain the charging result of the current service, the method further includes: saving the correspondence between the charging factor of the current service and the charging result of the current service.

It is conceivable that after saving the corresponding relationship between the billing factor of the current business and the billing result of the current business, the next time the similar business is billed, the saved calculation of the current business can be directly reused. If there is a charging result corresponding to the fee factor, it is not necessary to charge similar services according to the charging method described in the fifth possible implementation mode, thereby reducing the amount of calculation in the charging process of the above-mentioned similar services, simplifying The billing process can reduce the consumption of system performance.

Preferably, said storing the corresponding relationship between the charging factor of the current service and the charging result of the current service includes:

If the usage frequency of the charging factor of the current service is higher than the first frequency threshold, storing the correspondence between the charging factor of the current service and the charging result of the current service.

In this solution, only billing factors whose usage frequency is higher than the first frequency threshold and the billing results corresponding to them are saved, which can avoid charging factors that are not commonly used (that is, less frequently used) and billing factors corresponding to them. The billing results occupy the storage space of the billing system and affect system performance.

Optionally, in order to further avoid infrequently used (that is, less frequently used) charging factors and charging results corresponding to them from occupying the storage space of the charging system, the method in the embodiment of the present invention may further include:

If the usage frequency of the charging factor of the current service is lower than the second frequency threshold, delete the correspondence between the charging factor of the current service and the charging result of the current service.

The second aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides a service charging device, including:

an acquisition unit, configured to acquire service use information of a user's current service;

A determining unit, configured to determine the charging policy subscribed by the user for the current service, and determine the charging factor of the current service from the charging policy subscribed by the user for the current service;

A matching unit, configured to use the charging factor of the current service determined by the determining unit to match a pre-stored historical charging result, where the historical charging result includes a charging factor and has a corresponding relationship with the charging factor the billing results;

The charging unit is configured to adopt the historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service if the matching unit determines that there is a historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, according to the The service usage information of the current service charges the current service, so as to obtain the charging result of the current service.

With reference to the second aspect, in a first possible implementation manner, the charging factor of the current service includes: at least one of a precise charging factor, a complex charging factor, and a stepped charging factor;

Wherein, the precise billing factor is a billing factor whose value range is limited and whose value directly affects the billing result;

The complex billing factor is a billing factor whose calculation result after the function operation affects the billing result;

The step billing factor is a billing factor whose value range cannot be enumerated, is regulated by a mathematical formula, and can be converted into the precise billing factor after mapping.

With reference to the first possible implementation, in the second possible implementation, the precise charging factor includes: a precise factor identifier and a precise factor value;

The complex charging factors include: complex factor identification, complex factor functions and complex factor parameters;

The step charging factor includes: a step factor identifier, a step factor function, a step tariff identifier and a step factor parameter.

With reference to the second aspect, the first possible implementation manner, or the second possible implementation manner, in a third possible implementation manner, the historical charging results included in the The charging results include: at least one of historical charging formulas and service charging results;

The historical billing formula is a mathematical formula for billing calculation corresponding to the billing factor obtained by summarizing the historical billing process;

The service charging result is the charging amount corresponding to the charging factor summed up in the historical charging process.

With reference to the first possible implementation or the second possible implementation, in a fourth possible implementation, the charging factor of the current service includes: the precise charging factor and the complex charging factor ;

The matching unit is specifically used for:

Matching a first charging result by using the precise charging factor, where the first charging result is the historical charging result;

If there is a second charging result, matching the second charging result with the complex charging factor, where the second charging result is the first charging result that matches the precise charging factor billing result;

The billing unit is specifically used for:

If the matching unit determines that there is a third charging result, the third charging result is adopted, and the current service is charged according to the service usage information of the current service, and the third charging result is the A charging result matching the complex charging factor in the second charging result to obtain the charging result of the current service.

With reference to the first possible implementation or the second possible implementation, in a fifth possible implementation, the charging factors of the current service include: the precise charging factor, the complex charging factor and the tiered charging factor;

The matching unit is specifically used for:

Matching a first charging result by using the precise charging factor, where the first charging result is the historical charging result;

If there is a second charging result, matching the second charging result with the complex charging factor, where the second charging result is the first charging result that matches the precise charging factor billing result;

If there is a third charging result, matching the third charging result with the stepped charging factor, where the third charging result is the second charging result that matches the complex charging factor billing result;

The billing unit is specifically used for:

If the matching unit determines that there is a fourth charging result, the fourth charging result is adopted, and the current service is charged according to the service usage information of the current service, and the fourth charging result is the A charging result matching the step charging factor in the third charging result to obtain the charging result of the current service.

With reference to the second aspect, the first possible implementation manner or the second possible implementation manner, in a sixth possible implementation manner, the charging factor of the current service includes the charging factor corresponding to the current service The serialized characteristic value of the serialized characteristic value is used to uniquely identify the billing factor;

The historical billing results include billing factors and billing results corresponding to the billing factors, specifically:

The historical charging results include serialized characteristic values to be matched and charging results corresponding to the serialized characteristic values to be matched, and one serialized characteristic value to be matched is used to uniquely identify a charging factor.

With reference to the sixth possible implementation manner, in the seventh possible implementation manner, the matching unit is specifically configured to:

Using the serialized characteristic value corresponding to the billing factor of the current service to match the pre-stored serialized characteristic value to be matched;

Wherein, when the serialized characteristic value corresponding to the charging factor of the current service is equal to a serialized characteristic value to be matched, the charging factor of the current service matches the charging result corresponding to the serialized characteristic value to be matched.

With reference to the second aspect, the first possible implementation manner or the second possible implementation manner, in an eighth possible implementation manner, the billing unit is further configured to:

If the matching unit determines that there is no historical charging result that matches the charging factor of the current service, each tariff policy in the tariff policies ordered by the user for the current service is respectively adopted to provide the current Service charging, to obtain the charging result of the current service.

With reference to the seventh possible implementation manner, in a ninth possible implementation manner, the service charging device further includes:

A storage unit, configured to use each of the tariff policies subscribed by the user for the current service in the charging unit to charge the current service, so as to obtain the charging result of the current service Afterwards, the corresponding relationship between the charging factor of the current service and the charging result of the current service is saved.

With reference to the ninth possible implementation manner, in the tenth possible implementation manner, the storage unit is specifically configured to:

If the usage frequency of the charging factor of the current service is higher than the first frequency threshold, storing the correspondence between the charging factor of the current service and the charging result of the current service.

With reference to the ninth possible implementation manner, in the eleventh possible implementation manner, the service charging device further includes:

A deleting unit, configured to delete the correspondence between the charging factor of the current service and the charging result of the current service if the usage frequency of the charging factor of the current service is lower than a second frequency threshold.

A third aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides a service charging device, the service charging device includes: one or more processors, memory, bus system, transceiver and one or more application programs, the one or more a plurality of processors, said memory and said transceiver are connected via said bus system;

The one or more application programs are stored in the memory, the one or more application programs include instructions, and when the processor of the service charging device executes the instructions, the service charging device performs the following steps: The service charging method described in the first aspect and various optional modes of the first aspect.

A fourth aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium, one or more programs are stored in the computer-readable storage medium, and the one or more programs include instructions. When the service charging device When the processor executes the instructions, the service charging device executes the service charging method described in the first aspect and various optional modes of the first aspect.

It should be noted that, for related technical effects of the service charging device provided in the second aspect and the third aspect of the embodiment of the present invention, reference may be made to the related descriptions in the first aspect and its various optional modes, and details are not repeated here.

Description of drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention or the prior art, the following will briefly introduce the drawings that need to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art. Obviously, the accompanying drawings in the following description are only These are some embodiments of the present invention. For those skilled in the art, other drawings can also be obtained according to these drawings without any creative effort.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an online charging system provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a network architecture of an online charging system provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic flowchart of a service charging method provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic flowchart of another service charging method provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic flowchart of another service charging method provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic flowchart of another service charging method provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic flowchart of another service charging method provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic flowchart of a service charging method provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic composition diagram of a service charging device provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a schematic composition diagram of a service charging device provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 11 is a schematic composition diagram of a service charging device provided by an embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

The terms "first" and "second" and the like in the description and drawings of the present invention are used to distinguish different objects, rather than to describe a specific order of objects. For example, the first frequency threshold and the second frequency threshold are used to distinguish the frequency thresholds, not to describe the characteristic sequence of the frequency thresholds.

In the description of the present invention, unless otherwise specified, the meaning of "plurality" refers to two or more than two. For example, multiple processors refers to two or more processors.

In addition, the terms "including" and "having" and any variations thereof mentioned in the description of the present invention are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusion. For example, a process, method, system, product or device comprising a series of steps or units is not limited to the listed steps or units, but optionally also includes other unlisted steps or units, or optionally also includes Other steps or elements inherent to the process, method, product or apparatus are included.

Additionally, the terms "system" and "network" are often used herein interchangeably. The term "and/or" in this article is just an association relationship describing associated objects, which means that there can be three relationships, for example, A and/or B can mean: A exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and there exists alone B these three situations. In addition, the character "/" in this article generally indicates that the contextual objects are an "or" relationship.

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of them.

The service charging method provided by the embodiment of the present invention can be applied to an online charging system (Online Charging System, OCS) as shown in Figure 1, as shown in Figure 1, the OCS 10 can include at least: tariff database 11, user database 12 and billing server 13. Among them, the tariff database 11, the user database 12 and the billing server 13 are connected to each other.

Wherein, the tariff database 11 is used for storing tariff policies. Different tariff policies correspond to different service types. The operation manager can configure the tariff policy in the tariff database 11 through the management client; and the operation manager can update the tariff policy stored in the tariff database 11 in real time according to the change of the service type provided by the operator for the user.

The user database 12 is used to store the tariff data of the user (such as the tariff policy subscribed by the user) and the account balance of the user. Among them, the operator can display the tariff strategy configured in the tariff database 11 to the user through a certain platform for the user to choose. When the user selects the relevant tariff strategy configured in the tariff database 11, the user database 12 can record and store the tariff strategy Relevant charging policies, so that the billing server 13 can use the user's service usage information in combination with the relevant charging policies stored in the user database 12 to charge the user's services.

It is conceivable that the user database 12 may only store the identification of the tariff policy subscribed by the user, and the charging server 13 may query the specific tariff policy from the tariff database 11 according to the identification of the tariff policy subscribed by the user stored in the user database 12 .

Exemplarily, in order to realize the online charging of OCS, as shown in Figure 2, OCS is connected to wireless local area network (Wireless Local Area Networks, WLAN), and mobile switching center (MobileSwitching Center, MSC) of network side, service GPRS support respectively Node (Serving GPRS Support Node, SGSN), IP Multimedia Subsystem Application Server (IP Multimedia Subsystem Application Server, IMS AS), IMS Multimedia Resource Controller (Multimedia Resource Function Controller, MRFC) and IMS Multimedia Resource Processor (Multimedia Resource Function Processor, MRFP) to establish a connection. At the same time, in order to update the balance of the user's account stored in the OCS in real time, the OCS can also be connected to a charging server (Charging Server), so as to obtain the user's charging information from the charging server in real time.

The service charging method provided by the embodiment of the present invention can be applied to the process of charging user services by the charging server 13 described above. The execution subject of the service charging method provided by the embodiment of the present invention may be a charging server or a device (such as a service charging device) used to execute the above-mentioned service charging method in the charging server, and the charging server is used to perform the above-mentioned business. The apparatus of the charging method may be a central processing unit (Central Processing Unit, CPU) of the above-mentioned charging server, or may be a control unit or a module in the above-mentioned charging server. Wherein, in the embodiment of the present invention, the service charging method provided by the embodiment of the present invention is described in detail by taking the service charging device as the execution body of the service charging method as an example.

A service charging method and device provided in the embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below through specific embodiments and application scenarios with reference to the accompanying drawings.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a service charging method, as shown in Figure 3, the service charging method includes:

S101. The service charging device acquires service usage information of a user's current service.

Exemplarily, the user's current service may be any one of telecommunication services such as voice communication service, short message service, data traffic service, multimedia message service, and ring tone subscription service. Wherein, the above-mentioned data flow service may at least include a data flow package subscription service and a data flow communication service.

The service use information of the current service may include: the user's use of the current service, the resources and balance currently available to the user, and the accumulated consumption information of the user this month.

For example, if the current service is a voice communication service, the service usage information of the current service may include the duration of this voice communication, the start time of this voice communication, the calling number of this voice communication, the called number of this voice communication information such as the number and the place where the voice communication occurred; the resources currently available to the user can be the free call time currently available to the user, and the balance is the account balance of the user; the cumulative consumption information of the user this month is It may include the accumulated call duration of the user and the accumulated charge amount of the user's voice call.

It should be noted that the current services in the embodiments of the present invention include but are not limited to the user services listed above, and other user services may refer to the user services in the existing telecommunication services, which will not be repeated here. Moreover, the service use information of the current service in the embodiment of the present invention includes but is not limited to the above-mentioned service use information, and the detailed content of the service use information of each user service can refer to the service use information of the user service in the existing telecommunication service, I won't repeat them here.

S102. The service charging device determines the charging policy subscribed by the user for the current service.

It is conceivable that a user may order a tariff package including multiple tariff strategies according to requirements. For example, a user S1 in a place A can order the following tariff policy: (P1) 38 yuan monthly basic package, including: 100 minutes of free local calls, 30M free data traffic, local call charges 0.3 yuan/minute and long-distance charges 0.5 yuan/minute ; (P2) 10 yuan for 50M data traffic, 0.29 yuan/Kb after exceeding 50M; (P3) voice tariff policy 1: the tariff for the first 10 minutes of local calls is 0.3 yuan/minute, and the tariff for local calls after 10 minutes is 0.2 yuan/minute; (P4) Voice Tariff Strategy 2: 50% discount for calls during idle hours (22:00-24:00); (P5) Voice Tariff Strategy 3: Long-distance charges are capped at 50 yuan, and the long-distance charges will not be counted if they exceed 50 yuan this month. (that is, free); (P6) Voice tariff strategy 4: If the accumulated long-distance time exceeds 300 minutes this month, 60 minutes of long-distance free time will be given as a gift; (P7) Voice tariff strategy 5: 0.05 yuan/minute for calling a user in B from A .

Wherein, the service billing device (billing server 13) can query from the user database 12 according to a user's account (such as a mobile phone number) to obtain all the tariff policies ordered by the user, and then obtain all tariff policies ordered by the user. Determine the tariff policy subscribed by the user for the current service.

Based on the above example, assume that the current service is a voice communication service, specifically the voice communication service of user S1 to user S2 at B; The tariff policies (P4)-(P7) subscribed by the user S1 for the voice communication service are determined.

S103. The service charging device determines the charging factor of the current service from the charging policy subscribed by the user for the current service.

Exemplarily, the charging factor of the current service in the embodiment of the present invention may include: the service type of the current service (including: voice service, data service, short message service and multimedia message service), the long distance or short distance of the current service (including: local, long-distance, international), current service network division (including: on-net call and off-net call), fixed-time discount, directional toll, etc.

Among them, the in-network call here refers to the call between numbers belonging to the same operator (such as a call from a telecom user to a telecom user), and the off-net refers to a call between numbers of different operators (such as a call from a telecom user to a mobile user's call).

The billing factor in this embodiment of the present invention may include: at least one of a precise billing factor, a complex billing factor, and a stepped billing factor.

Wherein, the accurate billing factor is a billing factor whose value range is limited, and whose value directly affects the billing result. The precise charging factor in this embodiment of the present invention may include: a precise factor identifier and a precise factor value.

Exemplarily, the precise billing factor in this embodiment of the present invention may include: service type, long-distance or short-distance, network division, and tariff combination (including: any combination of all tariff policies subscribed by the user), etc. For example, as shown in Table 1, the precise charging factor example provided for the embodiment of the present invention:

Table 1

Wherein, the complex charging factor is a charging factor whose operation result after the function operation affects the charging result. The complex charging factor in this embodiment of the present invention may include: a complex factor identifier, a complex factor function, and a complex factor parameter.

Exemplarily, taking the timing preference of the voice communication service as an example, as shown in Table 2, it is an example of the complex charging factor provided by the embodiment of the present invention:

Table 2

Wherein, Funcl 1 (complex factor function) in Table 2 is the mathematical function to be used for charging the voice calls carried out in the 22:00-24:00 period, and Funcl 2 (complex factor function) is the mathematical function to be used for 9:00-24:00 Mathematical function to be used for billing of voice calls made during the 11:00 time period.

For example, assuming that the rate of voice communication in the 22:00-24:00 period is 0.05 yuan/minute, at this time, Funcl1=0.05×Δt1, Δt1 is the duration from time t1 to time t2 in Table 2, Wherein, the time t 1 and the time t 2 are both within [22:00, 24:00]. Assuming that the voice communication fee in the 9:00-11:00 period is 0.6 yuan/minute, at this time, Funcl 2=0.6×Δt2, Δt2 is the time length from time t3 to time t4 in Table 2, where , both time t3 and time t4 are within [9:00,11:00].

Exemplarily, taking the directional call scheme of the voice communication service as an example, as shown in Table 3, it is an example of the complex charging factor provided by the embodiment of the present invention:

table 3

Wherein, Funcl 3 (complex factor function) in table 3 is the mathematical function to be used for charging the voice communication service (voice call) that the calling number belongs to A place and the called number belongs to B place, Funcl 4 (complex factor function) is a mathematical function to be used for charging the voice communication service where the calling number belongs to place A and the called number belongs to place C.

For example, assuming that the calling number belongs to A place and the called number belongs to B place, the voice communication service (voice call) charge is 0.03 yuan/minute, at this time, Funcl 3=0.03×t, t is the voice communication Business call duration.

As shown above, the calculation result of the complex charging factors (such as the time plan) after the function calculation can affect the charging result.

Among them, the step billing factor is a billing factor whose value range is not enumerable, regularized by a mathematical formula, and can be converted into an accurate billing factor after mapping. The step charging factor in the embodiment of the present invention may include: a step factor identifier, a step factor function, a step tariff identifier and a step factor parameter. Wherein, the tiered tariff identifier is used to distinguish and identify the tariff information of each stage in the tiered charging factor.

Exemplarily, taking the graded tariff (step factor identification) scheme of the voice communication service as an example, it is assumed that the tariff of the voice communication service can be divided into three grades: the call duration is (0, 3] minutes, and the tariff is 0.1 yuan/minute; The call duration is (3, 5] minutes, and the tariff is 0.08 yuan/minute; the call duration is (5, ∞) minutes, and the tariff is 0.05 yuan/minute.

Table 4

Based on the above example, assume that the user S1 at A is a telecom user, and the user S2 at B is a mobile user. The user S1 at A initiates a voice communication service to user S2 at B at 8:00 a.m., and the voice communication service continues. 7 minutes (that is, the call between user S1 at A and user S2 at B lasts 7 minutes).

The service charging device can determine the current service from the tariff policy (P4)-(P7) ordered by the user S1 for the current service (the voice communication service between the user S1 at A and the user S2 at B for 7 minutes) Billing factors include: voice service, long-distance, off-network, tariff combination (P4+P5+P6+P7), directional call and sub-file tariff.

S104. The service charging device uses the charging factor of the current service to match the pre-stored historical charging result, and the historical charging result includes the charging factor and the charging result corresponding to the charging factor.

Wherein, the historical charging results include charging factors and charging results corresponding to the charging factors.

The method for the service charging device to use the charging factor of the current service to match the pre-stored historical charging results may include: the service charging device searches for the charging factor of the current service from the charging factors contained in the pre-stored historical charging results. Matching (same) billing factor; if there is a billing factor that matches the billing factor of the current service in the pre-stored historical billing results (referred to as matching billing factor), then it is considered that there is a correspondence with the matching billing factor The charging result of the relationship matches the charging factor of the current service.

S105. If there is a historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, the service charging device adopts the historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, and charges the current service according to the service usage information of the current service to obtain the charging result of the current service.

The service charging method provided by the embodiment of the present invention can determine the charging factor of the current service from the charging policy ordered by the user for the current service, and then use the charging factor of the current service to match the historical charging results. If the historical billing result matched by the billing factor is used, the historical billing result can be directly reused to bill the current service, instead of using each tariff strategy one by one and step by step for billing. Multiplexing the historical charging results to charge the current service can reduce the calculation amount in the service charging process, simplify the charging process, and further reduce the consumption of system performance.

Preferably, in order to speed up the matching speed of the service charging device using the charging factor of the current service to match the pre-stored historical charging results and improve the matching efficiency, the service charging device in the embodiment of the present invention can use a serialization algorithm to perform the above-mentioned charging Factors (including precise billing factors, complex billing factors and step billing factors) are serialized, and each billing factor is assigned a serialized characteristic value that can uniquely identify the billing factor.

Correspondingly, the above-mentioned historical billing results include billing factors and billing results corresponding to the billing factors. Specifically, the historical billing results include serialized feature values to be matched and serialized There is a corresponding billing result for the feature value, and a serialized feature value to be matched is used to uniquely identify a billing factor.

At this point, S104 can be replaced by S104':

S104' The service charging device uses the serialized characteristic value corresponding to the charging factor of the current service to match the pre-stored serialized characteristic value to be matched.

Wherein, when the serialized characteristic value corresponding to the charging factor of the current service is equal to a serialized characteristic value to be matched, the charging factor of the current service matches the charging result corresponding to the serialized characteristic value to be matched.

Further, as shown in FIG. 4, the method in this embodiment of the present invention may also include S106:

S106. If there is no historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, the service charging device adopts each of the charging strategies ordered by the user for the current service to charge the current service, and Obtain the billing result of the current business.

It should be noted that the service charging device adopts each tariff strategy in the tariff strategy ordered by the user for the current service to charge the current service, and the method for obtaining the charging result of the current service is the same as that used in the prior art. For each of the tariff policies subscribed by the user for the current service, the charging method for the current service is similar, and will not be repeated here in this embodiment.

In the service charging method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, when there is no historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, each of the charging policies subscribed by the user for the current service may be adopted respectively, Bill for current business. In this way, no matter whether there is a historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, the current service can be charged through this solution, and the charging result of the current service can be obtained.

Further, in order to reduce the calculation amount when charging similar services (the same or similar services as the above-mentioned current services) next time, simplify the charging process, as shown in Figure 5, after S106 shown in Figure 3, this The method of the embodiment of the invention may also include S107:

S107. The service charging device stores the corresponding relationship between the charging factor of the current service and the charging result of the current service.

It is conceivable that after saving the corresponding relationship between the billing factor of the current business and the billing result of the current business, the next time the similar business is billed, the saved calculation of the current business can be directly reused. If there is a charging result corresponding to the fee factor, it is not necessary to charge similar services according to the charging method described in the fifth possible implementation mode, thereby reducing the amount of calculation in the charging process of the above-mentioned similar services, simplifying The billing process can reduce the consumption of system performance.

Preferably, in order to avoid infrequently used (i.e. low frequency of use) billing factors and billing results corresponding thereto occupying the storage space of the billing system and affecting system performance, S106 may specifically be S106':

S106'. If the usage frequency of the charging factor of the current service is higher than the first frequency threshold, the service charging device stores the corresponding relationship between the charging factor of the current service and the charging result of the current service.

And, in order to further avoid the storage space of the charging system occupied by the charging factors that are not commonly used (that is, with low frequency of use) and the charging results corresponding to them, optionally, the method in the embodiment of the present invention may also include: If the usage frequency of the charging factor of the current service is lower than the second frequency threshold, the service charging device deletes the corresponding relationship between the charging factor of the current service and the charging result of the current service. Wherein, the first frequency threshold is higher than the second frequency threshold.

The embodiment of the present invention provides a service charging method, which can use a hierarchical matching method to match historical accounting factors with precise charging factors and complex charging factors (or precise charging factors, complex charging factors, and ladder charging factors) sequentially. According to the charging result, the current service is charged, as shown in Figure 6 or Figure 7, the service charging method may include:

S201. The service charging device acquires service usage information of a user's current service.

It should be noted that, for a specific method for the service charging apparatus to obtain service usage information of a user's current service, reference may be made to relevant descriptions in the foregoing embodiments, and details are not repeated here in the embodiments of the present invention.

S202. The service charging device determines the charging policy subscribed by the user for the current service, and determines the charging factor of the current service from the charging policy subscribed by the user for the current service.

It should be noted that the service charging device determines the charging policy subscribed by the user for the current service, and the specific method of determining the charging factor of the current service from the charging policy subscribed by the user for the current service can refer to the related description, the embodiments of the present invention will not be repeated here.

Exemplarily, in an application scenario of the embodiment of the present invention, it is assumed that the charging factors of the current service include: precise charging factors and complex charging factors, at this time, the service charging device can adopt a hierarchical matching method, and Precise billing factors and complex billing factors match the pre-stored historical billing results, so that the matched historical billing results can be directly reused after the matching is successful. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 6, the method of the embodiment of the present invention may also include S203-S206:

S203. The service charging device uses the precise charging factor to match the first charging result, where the first charging result is a historical charging result.

S204. If there is a second charging result, the service charging device uses a complex charging factor to match the second charging result, and the second charging result is a charging result that matches the precise charging factor in the first charging result.

S205. If there is a third charging result, the service charging device adopts the third charging result, charges the current service according to the service usage information of the current service, and the third charging result is the combination of the second charging result and the complicated calculation result. The charging result matched by the fee factor is used to obtain the charging result of the current service.

It should be noted that the service charging device uses accurate charging factors to match the first charging results, and uses complex charging factors to match the second charging results. The method of this embodiment will not be repeated here.

Further, if there is no second charging result or no third charging result, continue to execute S206:

S206. The service charging device adopts each of the charging policies subscribed by the user for the current service to charge the current service, so as to obtain a charging result of the current service.

Preferably, in order to speed up the matching speed of using the billing factor of the current service to match the pre-stored historical billing results and improve the matching efficiency, the precise billing factor in the embodiment of the present invention may also include the serialization feature of the precise billing factor value, and the complex billing factor can also include the serialized characteristic value of the complex billing factor.

Among them, the service charging device can use the serialized characteristic value corresponding to each accurate charging factor of the current service to match the pre-stored serialized characteristic value to be matched respectively, when the serialized characteristic value corresponding to an accurate charging factor of the current service When the value is equal to a serialized characteristic value to be matched, the service charging device may determine that the precise charging factor matches the charging result corresponding to the serialized characteristic value to be matched. Similarly, the service charging device can also use the serialized characteristic value corresponding to each complex charging factor of the current service to match the pre-stored serialized characteristic value to be matched respectively. When the serialized characteristic value corresponding to a complex charging factor of the current service When the characteristic value is equal to a serialized characteristic value to be matched, the service charging device may determine that the complex charging factor matches the charging result corresponding to the serialized characteristic value to be matched.

Exemplarily, in conjunction with Table 1, as shown in Table 5, it is an example of the precise billing factor provided by the embodiment of the present invention. The precise billing factor shown in Table 5 includes a serialization that can uniquely identify each precise billing factor Eigenvalues.

table 5

Exemplarily, in combination with Table 2, as shown in Table 6, it is an example of a complex billing factor provided by the embodiment of the present invention. The complex billing factor shown in Table 6 includes a serialization that can uniquely identify each complex billing factor Eigenvalues.

Table 6

Exemplarily, in combination with Table 3, as shown in Table 7, it is an example of a complex billing factor provided by the embodiment of the present invention. The complex billing factor shown in Table 7 includes a serialization that can uniquely identify each complex billing factor Eigenvalues.

Table 7

Wherein, in the embodiment of the present invention, the serialization algorithm is used to serialize the billing factor to obtain the related method of the serialized characteristic value of the billing factor, which can refer to the detailed description in the prior art, and will not be repeated here in this embodiment.

Exemplarily, it is assumed that the service charging device determines that the charging factors of the current service include: precise charging factors and complex charging factors; wherein, the precise charging factors include: voice service, long distance, off-network and tariff combination (P4+ P5+P6+P7); complex charging factors include: directed calls.

In this way, the service charging device can determine that the serialized characteristic values of the accurate charging factors in the charging factors of the current service are respectively: Key 11, Key 22, Key 32 and Key 42; the serialized characteristic values of the complex charging factors are : Key 53.

It should be emphasized that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the historical billing results include billing factors and billing results corresponding to the billing factors. Specifically, the historical billing results include serialized feature values to be matched and The billing result that has a corresponding relationship with the serialized feature value to be matched, and a serialized feature value to be matched is used to uniquely identify a billing factor.

It is conceivable that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the historical billing result includes serialized characteristic values to be matched, which are obtained by serializing the corresponding billing factors using the same serialization algorithm as above.

Exemplarily, in the embodiment of the present invention, the example of the historical billing result in the implementation of the present invention can be given in the form of a table, as shown in Table 8, which is an example of the historical billing result provided by the embodiment of the present invention:

Table 8

In conjunction with the above example, if the service charging device determines that the serialization eigenvalues of the accurate charging factors in the charging factors of the current service are respectively: Key 11, Key 22, Key 32 and Key 42; the serialization eigenvalues of the complex charging factors is: Key 53; then the third charging result that the service charging device matches from the historical charging results can include charging result 1 (corresponding to Key 11), charging result 5 ( corresponding to Key 22), accounting result 7 (corresponding to Key 32), accounting result 9 (corresponding to Key 42), and accounting result 12 (corresponding to Key 53).

It is conceivable that, after matching and obtaining the above-mentioned charging result 1, charging result 5, charging result 7, charging result 9 and charging result 12, the service charging device can directly Multiplex the charging result obtained through matching to charge the current service.

In the embodiment of the present invention, since the precise billing factor is a billing factor with a limited value range and its direct value affects the billing result, the complex billing factor is a billing factor whose calculation result after logical operation affects the billing result. Therefore, it can be seen that the accurate billing factor is easier to match the historical billing results than the complex billing factor, that is, the precise billing factor is more likely to directly reuse the historical billing results.

In this way, if the billing factors of the current service include precise billing factors and complex billing factors, the precise billing factor is first used to match the historical billing result (the first billing result), and then the complex billing factor is used to match the precise billing factor. The historical charging result (second charging result) matched by the fee factor can improve the possibility of successful matching and the possibility of reusing the historical charging result.

Further, in another application scenario of the embodiment of the present invention, it is assumed that the billing factors of the current service include: precise billing factors, complex billing factors, and step billing factors, at this time, the service billing device can adopt a hierarchical According to the matching method, accurate billing factor, complex billing factor, and step billing factor are used to match the pre-stored historical billing results, so that the historical billing results that have been successfully matched can be directly reused after the matching is successful. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 7, the method of the embodiment of the present invention may also include S203, S204, S206-S208:

S207. If there is a third charging result, match the third charging result with a step charging factor, where the third charging result is a charging result matching the complex charging factor in the second charging result.

Exemplarily, in conjunction with Table 4, as shown in Table 9, it is an example of the step billing factor provided by the embodiment of the present invention. The complex billing factor shown in Table 9 contains a serialization that can uniquely identify each step billing factor Eigenvalues.

Table 9

Exemplarily, it is assumed that the service charging device determines that the charging factors of the current service include: precise charging factors, complex charging factors and stepped charging factors; wherein, the precise charging factors include: voice services, long distance, off-network and Tariff combination (P4+P5+P6+P7); complex billing factors include: directed call; step billing factors include: tiered tariffs.

In this way, the service charging device can determine that the serialized characteristic values of the accurate charging factors in the charging factors of the current service are respectively: Key 11, Key 22, Key 32 and Key 4n; the serialized characteristic values of the complex charging factors are respectively It is: Key 53; the serialized characteristic values of the step billing factors are: Key 71.

Exemplarily, as shown in Table 10, it is an example of a historical charging result provided by the embodiment of the present invention:

Table 10

S208. If there is a fourth charging result, use the fourth charging result, and charge the current service according to the service usage information of the current service, and the fourth charging result is the third charging result that matches the step charging factor Billing result to obtain the billing result of the current service.

Further, if there is no fourth charging result, S206 may continue to be executed.

In conjunction with the foregoing examples, if the service charging device determines that the serialization characteristic value of the charging factor of the current service is respectively: Key 11, Key 22, Key 32 and Key 42, Key 53 and Key 71; The fourth charging result matched in the charging result may include charging result 1 (corresponding to Key 11), charging result 5 (corresponding to Key 22) and charging result 7 (corresponding to Key 22) as shown in Table 8. Key 32), accounting result 9 (corresponding to Key 42), accounting result 12 (corresponding to Key 53), and accounting result 14 (corresponding to Key 71).

It is conceivable that the service charging device can obtain the above charging result 1, charging result 5, charging result 7, charging result 9, charging result 12 and charging result 14 according to the current service The billing result obtained through direct multiplexing and matching of the service usage information is charged for the current service.

Further, the charging results (charging results 1-14 shown in Table 9) included in the historical charging results in the embodiment of the present invention and have a corresponding relationship with the charging factors may include: historical charging formulas and service At least one of the billing results.

Wherein, the historical charging formula is a mathematical formula used for charging calculation and corresponding to the charging factor obtained through induction and summary in the historical charging process.

Exemplarily, taking the historical billing results of the above step billing factors as an example, based on the billing results of the graded tariffs shown in Table 9, in the graded tariffs shown in Table 9, the voice tariff can be divided according to the time ladder There are three levels: call duration (0, 3] minutes, the tariff is 0.1 yuan/minute; call duration (3, 5] minutes, the tariff is 0.08 yuan/minute; call duration (5, ∞) minutes, the tariff is 0.05 yuan/minute.

Since in most voice call scenarios, the call duration is more than 5 minutes, in order to reduce the amount of calculation in the billing process of voice communication services and improve billing efficiency, the historical billing results of the above-mentioned tiered tariffs can specifically include Mathematical formulas for billing calculations corresponding to billing factors as shown in Table 11:

Table 11

The service charging result may be the charging amount corresponding to the charging factor summed up in the historical charging process. For example, if the current service is a data flow packet service, then the billing result corresponding to the billing factor of the data flow packet service can be the billing amount to be paid for handling the data flow packet (such as the 10M data flow packet The billing amount is 3 yuan).

Preferably, in the embodiment of the present invention, the tree factor structure as shown in FIG. 8 can also be used to match the charging factor of the current service with the historical charging result. As shown in FIG. 8 , the service charging device may sequentially use precise charging factors, complex charging factors, and stepped charging factors to match historical charging results.

It is conceivable that since the step billing factor is a billing factor whose value range is not enumerable, it can be converted into the precise billing factor after being regulated by a mathematical formula, and mapped; It is easier to match historical billing results with the cost factor, that is, the possibility of reusing historical billing results with complex billing factors is higher than that of ladder billing factors.

In this way, if the billing factors of the current service include precise billing factors, complex billing factors, and step billing factors, the precise billing factors, complex billing factors, and step billing factors are used in turn to match the historical billing results, which can improve the matching Likelihood of success and the possibility of reusing historical billing results.

The service charging method provided by the embodiment of the present invention can determine the charging factor of the current service from the charging policy ordered by the user for the current service, and then use the charging factor of the current service to match the historical charging results. If the historical billing result matched by the billing factor is used, the historical billing result can be directly reused to bill the current service, instead of using each tariff strategy one by one and step by step for billing. Multiplexing the historical charging results to charge the current service can reduce the calculation amount in the service charging process, simplify the charging process, and further reduce the consumption of system performance.

Moreover, since the precise billing factor is a billing factor with a limited value range and its direct value affects the billing result, and the complex billing factor is a billing factor whose calculation result after logical operation affects the billing result, the ladder The billing factor is a billing factor whose value range is not enumerable, regularized by mathematical formula, and can be converted into the precise billing factor after mapping; therefore, it can be seen that the precise billing factor is easier to match the history than the complex billing factor Billing results, that is, accurate billing factors are more likely to directly reuse historical billing results; complex billing factors are easier to match historical billing results than ladder billing factors, that is, complex billing factors reuse history The possibility of billing results is higher than the possibility of multiplexing historical billing results by step billing factors.

In this way, when the billing factors of the current service include precise billing factors, complex billing factors, and step billing factors, matching historical billing results with precise billing factors, complex billing factors, and step billing factors can improve The probability of successful matching and the possibility of reusing historical billing results.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a service charging device, and the service charging device is used to execute the service charging method provided in the above embodiments. The service charging device may include modules corresponding to corresponding steps in the service charging method provided in the above embodiments. Exemplarily, as shown in FIG. 9 , the service charging apparatus may include: an acquiring unit 21 , a determining unit 22 , a matching unit 23 and a charging unit 24 .

The obtaining unit 21 is configured to obtain service usage information of a user's current service.

The determination unit 22 is configured to determine the tariff policy subscribed by the user for the current service, and determine the billing factor of the current service from the tariff policy subscribed by the user for the current service.

A matching unit 23, configured to use the charging factor of the current service determined by the determining unit 22 to match a pre-stored historical charging result, where the historical charging result includes a charging factor and exists with the charging factor The billing result of the corresponding relationship.

The charging unit 24 is configured to use the historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service if the matching unit 23 determines that there is a historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, according to The service usage information of the current service acquired by the acquiring unit 21 is charged for the current service, so as to obtain the charging result of the current service.

Further, the charging factor of the current service includes: at least one of a precise charging factor, a complex charging factor and a stepped charging factor.

Wherein, the precise billing factor is a billing factor whose value range is limited and whose direct value affects the billing result; the complex billing factor is a billing factor whose calculation result after the function operation affects the billing result ; The step billing factor is a billing factor whose value range is non-enumerable, regularized by a mathematical formula, and can be converted into the precise billing factor after mapping.

Further, the precise charging factor includes: precise factor identification and precise factor value; the complex charging factor includes: complex factor identification, complex factor function and complex factor parameters; the step charging factor includes: step factor ID, Step Factor Function, Step Tariff ID, and Step Factor Parameters.

Further, the charging results included in the historical charging results and corresponding to the charging factors include: at least one of historical charging formulas and service charging results.

The historical charging formula is a mathematical formula for charging calculation corresponding to the charging factor obtained by summarizing and summarizing in the historical charging process; the service charging result is obtained by summarizing and summarizing in the historical charging process The billing amount corresponding to the billing factor.

Optionally, in an application scenario of the embodiment of the present invention, the charging factor of the current service includes: the precise charging factor and the complex charging factor.

In this application scenario, the matching unit 23 is specifically used for:

Matching a first charging result by using the precise charging factor, where the first charging result is the historical charging result;

If there is a second charging result, matching the second charging result with the complex charging factor, where the second charging result is the first charging result that matches the precise charging factor Billing result.

The charging unit 24 is specifically configured to use the third charging result if the matching unit 23 determines that there is a third charging result, and charge the current service according to the service usage information of the current service , the third charging result is the charging result matching the complex charging factor in the second charging result, so as to obtain the charging result of the current service.

Preferably, in another application scenario of the embodiment of the present invention, the billing factors of the current service include: the precise billing factor, the complex billing factor, and the stepped billing factor.

In this application scenario, the matching unit 23 is specifically used for:

Matching a first charging result by using the precise charging factor, where the first charging result is the historical charging result;

If there is a second charging result, matching the second charging result with the complex charging factor, where the second charging result is the first charging result that matches the precise charging factor billing result;

If there is a third charging result, matching the third charging result with the stepped charging factor, where the third charging result is the second charging result that matches the complex charging factor Billing result.

The charging unit 24 is specifically configured to use the fourth charging result if the matching unit 23 determines that there is a fourth charging result, and charge the current service according to the service usage information of the current service , the fourth charging result is a charging result matching the step charging factor in the third charging result, so as to obtain the charging result of the current service.

Preferably, the charging factor of the current service includes a serialized characteristic value corresponding to the charging factor of the current service, and the serialized characteristic value is used to uniquely identify the charging factor.

The historical billing results include billing factors and billing results corresponding to the billing factors, specifically: the historical billing results include the serialized feature values to be matched and the There is a charging result corresponding to the serialized characteristic value, and one serialized characteristic value to be matched is used to uniquely identify a charging factor.

Further, the matching unit 23 is specifically configured to use the serialized characteristic value corresponding to the charging factor of the current service to match the pre-stored serialized characteristic value to be matched.

Wherein, when the serialized characteristic value corresponding to the charging factor of the current service is equal to a serialized characteristic value to be matched, the charging factor of the current service matches the charging result corresponding to the serialized characteristic value to be matched.

Further, the charging unit 24 is further configured to use the user to subscribe for the current service if the matching unit 23 determines that there is no historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service. Each tariff policy in the tariff policy is charged for the current service, so as to obtain the charging result of the current service.

Further, as shown in FIG. 10 , the service charging apparatus may further include: a saving unit 25 .

The storage unit 25 is configured to use each of the tariff policies subscribed by the user for the current service in the charging unit 24 to charge the current service, so as to obtain the charging policy for the current service. After the charging result is obtained, the corresponding relationship between the charging factor of the current service and the charging result of the current service is saved.

Preferably, the saving unit 25 is specifically configured to save the charging factor of the current service and the charging result of the current service if the usage frequency of the charging factor of the current service is higher than a first frequency threshold Correspondence between.

Further, the service charging device may further include: a deleting unit.

A deleting unit, configured to delete the correspondence between the charging factor of the current service and the charging result of the current service if the usage frequency of the charging factor of the current service is lower than a second frequency threshold.

It should be noted that, for the detailed description of the service charging device provided in this embodiment, reference may be made to relevant content in the method embodiments of the present invention, and details are not repeated here in this embodiment.

The service charging device provided by the embodiment of the present invention can determine the charging factor of the current service from the charging policy ordered by the user for the current service, and then use the charging factor of the current service to match the historical charging results. If the historical billing result matched by the billing factor is used, the historical billing result can be directly reused to bill the current service, instead of using each tariff strategy one by one and step by step for billing. Multiplexing the historical charging results to charge the current service can reduce the calculation amount in the service charging process, simplify the charging process, and further reduce the consumption of system performance.

Moreover, since the precise billing factor is a billing factor with a limited value range and its direct value affects the billing result, and the complex billing factor is a billing factor whose calculation result after logical operation affects the billing result, the ladder The billing factor is a billing factor whose value range is not enumerable, regularized by mathematical formula, and can be converted into the precise billing factor after mapping; therefore, it can be seen that the precise billing factor is easier to match the history than the complex billing factor Billing results, that is, accurate billing factors are more likely to directly reuse historical billing results; complex billing factors are easier to match historical billing results than ladder billing factors, that is, complex billing factors reuse history The possibility of billing results is higher than the possibility of multiplexing historical billing results by step billing factors.

In this way, when the billing factors of the current service include precise billing factors, complex billing factors, and step billing factors, matching historical billing results with precise billing factors, complex billing factors, and step billing factors can improve The probability of successful matching and the possibility of reusing historical billing results.

As shown in Figure 11, an embodiment of the present invention provides a service charging device, the service charging device includes:

One or more processors 30, memory 31, bus system 32, transceiver 33 and one or more application programs, said one or more processors, said memory 31 and said transceiver 33 are connected via said bus system 32 connected.

The one or more application programs are stored in the memory 31, the one or more application programs include instructions, and when the processor 30 of the service charging device executes the instructions, the service charging device Execute the service charging method described in the above method embodiment. For a specific service charging method, reference may be made to relevant descriptions in the foregoing method embodiments, and details are not repeated here.

This embodiment also provides a computer-readable storage medium, wherein one or more programs are stored in the computer-readable storage medium, and the one or more programs include instructions. When the processor 30 of the service charging device When executing the instruction, the service charging device executes the service charging method as shown in any one of Fig. 3-Fig. 7 .

The one or more processors 30 may be a central processing unit (English: central processing unit, abbreviation: CPU). The one or more processors 30 can also be other general-purpose processors, digital signal processors (English: digital signal processing, DSP for short), application specific integrated circuits (English: applicationspecific integrated circuit, ASIC for short), field programmable gates, etc. Array (English: field-programmable gate array, FPGA for short) or other programmable logic devices, discrete gate or transistor logic devices, discrete hardware components, etc. A general-purpose processor may be a microprocessor, or the processor may be any conventional processor, or the like.

The one or more processors 30 may be special-purpose processors, and the special-purpose processors may include at least one of an NFC processing chip, a baseband processing chip, a radio frequency processing chip, and the like. Further, the dedicated processor may also include a chip with other dedicated processing functions of the portable electronic device.

The memory 31 may include a volatile memory (English: volatile memory), such as a random-access memory (English: random-access memory, abbreviated as RAM); the memory 31 may also include a non-volatile memory (English: non-volatile memory), such as read-only memory (English: read-onlymemory, abbreviation: ROM), flash memory (English: flash memory), hard disk (English: hard diskdrive, abbreviation: HDD) or solid state drive (English: solid -state drive, abbreviation: SSD); the storage 31 may also include a combination of the above-mentioned types of storage.

The bus system 32 may include a data bus, a power bus, a control bus, a signal status bus, and the like. In this embodiment, for the sake of clarity, various buses are shown as a bus system 32 in FIG. 11 .

The transceiver 33 may specifically be a transceiver on a portable electronic device. The transceiver may be a wireless transceiver. For example, a wireless transceiver may be an antenna of a portable electronic device or the like. The one or more processors 30 transmit and receive data with other devices or databases (eg, user databases) through the transceiver 33 .

It should be noted that, for the detailed description of the service charging device provided in this embodiment, reference may be made to relevant content in the method embodiments of the present invention, and details are not repeated here in this embodiment.

The service charging device provided by the embodiment of the present invention can determine the charging factor of the current service from the charging policy ordered by the user for the current service, and then use the charging factor of the current service to match the historical charging results. If the historical billing result matched by the billing factor is used, the historical billing result can be directly reused to bill the current service, instead of using each tariff strategy one by one and step by step for billing. Multiplexing the historical charging results to charge the current service can reduce the calculation amount in the service charging process, simplify the charging process, and further reduce the consumption of system performance.

Moreover, since the precise billing factor is a billing factor with a limited value range and its direct value affects the billing result, and the complex billing factor is a billing factor whose calculation result after logical operation affects the billing result, the ladder The billing factor is a billing factor whose value range is not enumerable, regularized by mathematical formula, and can be converted into the precise billing factor after mapping; therefore, it can be seen that the precise billing factor is easier to match the history than the complex billing factor Billing results, that is, accurate billing factors are more likely to directly reuse historical billing results; complex billing factors are easier to match historical billing results than ladder billing factors, that is, complex billing factors reuse history The possibility of billing results is higher than the possibility of multiplexing historical billing results by step billing factors.

In this way, when the billing factors of the current service include precise billing factors, complex billing factors, and step billing factors, matching historical billing results with precise billing factors, complex billing factors, and step billing factors can improve The probability of successful matching and the possibility of reusing historical billing results.

Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the present invention can be realized by means of software plus necessary general-purpose hardware, and of course also by hardware, but in many cases the former is a better embodiment . Based on this understanding, the essence of the technical solution of the present invention or the part that contributes to the prior art can be embodied in the form of a software product, and the computer software product is stored in a readable storage medium, such as a floppy disk of a computer , a hard disk or an optical disk, etc., including several instructions for enabling a computer device (which may be a personal computer, server, or network device, etc.) to execute the methods described in various embodiments of the present invention.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will understand that various aspects of the present invention, or possible implementations of various aspects, may be embodied as systems, methods or computer program products. Accordingly, aspects of the present invention, or possible implementations of various aspects, may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, resident software, etc.), or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects, described in These are collectively referred to herein as "circuits," "modules," or "systems." In addition, aspects of the present invention, or possible implementations of various aspects, may take the form of computer program products, and computer program products refer to computer-readable program codes stored in computer-readable media.

The computer readable medium may be a computer readable signal medium or a computer readable storage medium. Computer-readable storage media include, but are not limited to, electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor systems, devices, or devices, or any suitable combination of the foregoing, such as random access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), Erase Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM or Flash), Fiber Optic, Portable Read-Only Memory (CD-ROM).

The processor in the computer reads the computer-readable program code stored in the computer-readable medium, so that the processor can execute the functional actions specified in each step in the flow chart, or a combination of steps; A device that performs functional actions specified in each block or a combination of blocks.

The computer readable program code may execute entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a separate software package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remote computer, or entirely on the remote computer or server . It should also be noted that, in some alternative implementations, the functions noted at the steps in the flowcharts or blocks in the block diagrams may occur out of the order noted in the figures. For example, two steps, or two blocks shown in succession, may in fact be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved.

Obviously, those skilled in the art can make various changes and modifications to the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Thus, if these modifications and variations of the present invention fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention and equivalent technologies thereof, the present invention also intends to include these modifications and variations.

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1. A service charging method, characterized in that, comprising: Obtaining service usage information of a user's current service; determining the tariff policy ordered by the user for the current service, and determining the billing factor of the current service from the tariff policy subscribed by the user for the current service; Using the charging factor of the current service to match the pre-stored historical charging result, the historical charging result includes the charging factor and the charging result corresponding to the charging factor; If there is a historical charging result that matches the charging factor of the current service, then adopt the historical charging result that matches the charging factor of the current service, and calculate the current service for the current service according to the service usage information of the current service Charging, to obtain the charging result of the current service. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the billing factor of the current service comprises: at least one of a precise billing factor, a complex billing factor, and a stepped billing factor; Wherein, the precise billing factor is a billing factor whose value range is limited and whose value directly affects the billing result; The complex billing factor is a billing factor whose calculation result after the function operation affects the billing result; The step billing factor is a billing factor whose value range cannot be enumerated, is regulated by a mathematical formula, and can be converted into the precise billing factor after mapping. 3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the precise billing factor comprises: a precise factor identifier and a precise factor value; The complex charging factors include: complex factor identification, complex factor functions and complex factor parameters; The step charging factor includes: a step factor identifier, a step factor function, a step tariff identifier and a step factor parameter. 4. The method according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein the charging results included in the historical charging results and corresponding to the charging factors include: historical charging formulas and At least one of the business charging results; The historical billing formula is a mathematical formula for billing calculation corresponding to the billing factor obtained by summarizing the historical billing process; The service charging result is the charging amount corresponding to the charging factor summed up in the historical charging process. 5. The method according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the billing factor of the current service comprises: the precise billing factor and the complex billing factor; The matching of the pre-stored historical charging results using the charging factor of the current service includes: Matching a first charging result by using the precise charging factor, where the first charging result is the historical charging result; If there is a second charging result, matching the second charging result with the complex charging factor, where the second charging result is the first charging result that matches the precise charging factor billing result; If there is a historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, then adopting the historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, according to the service usage information of the current service for the Current service charging, to obtain the charging result of the current service, including: If there is a third charging result, adopt the third charging result, charge the current service according to the service usage information of the current service, and the third charging result is the second charging result The charging result matched with the complex charging factor in order to obtain the charging result of the current service. 6. The method according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein the charging factor of the current service includes a serialized feature value corresponding to the charging factor of the current service, and the serialized feature The value is used to uniquely identify the charging factor; The historical billing results include billing factors and billing results corresponding to the billing factors, specifically: The historical charging results include serialized characteristic values to be matched and charging results corresponding to the serialized characteristic values to be matched, and one serialized characteristic value to be matched is used to uniquely identify a charging factor. 7. The method according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein the method further comprises: If there is no historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, each of the charging strategies subscribed by the user for the current service is adopted to charge the current service, so that Obtain the charging result of the current service. 8. The method according to claim 7, wherein, if there is no historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, the user subscribed for the current service is used respectively. Each tariff strategy in the tariff strategy is charged for the current service, and after obtaining the charging result of the current service, the method further includes: The corresponding relationship between the charging factor of the current service and the charging result of the current service is stored. 9. A service charging device, characterized in that it comprises: an acquisition unit, configured to acquire service use information of a user's current service; A determining unit, configured to determine the charging policy subscribed by the user for the current service, and determine the charging factor of the current service from the charging policy subscribed by the user for the current service; A matching unit, configured to use the charging factor of the current service determined by the determining unit to match a pre-stored historical charging result, where the historical charging result includes a charging factor and has a corresponding relationship with the charging factor the billing result; The charging unit is configured to adopt the historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service if the matching unit determines that there is a historical charging result matching the charging factor of the current service, according to the The service usage information of the current service charges the current service, so as to obtain the charging result of the current service. 10. The device according to claim 9, wherein the billing factor of the current service includes: at least one of a precise billing factor, a complex billing factor, and a stepped billing factor; Wherein, the precise billing factor is a billing factor whose value range is limited and whose value directly affects the billing result; The complex billing factor is a billing factor whose calculation result after the function operation affects the billing result; The step billing factor is a billing factor whose value range cannot be enumerated, is regulated by a mathematical formula, and can be converted into the precise billing factor after mapping. 11. The device according to claim 10, wherein the precise billing factor comprises: a precise factor identifier and a precise factor value; The complex charging factors include: complex factor identification, complex factor functions and complex factor parameters; The step charging factor includes: a step factor identifier, a step factor function, a step tariff identifier and a step factor parameter. 12. The device according to any one of claims 9-11, wherein the charging results included in the historical charging results and corresponding to the charging factors include: historical charging formulas and At least one of the business charging results; The historical billing formula is a mathematical formula for billing calculation corresponding to the billing factor obtained by summarizing the historical billing process; The service charging result is the charging amount corresponding to the charging factor summed up in the historical charging process. 13. The device according to claim 10 or 11, wherein the charging factor of the current service comprises: the precise charging factor and the complex charging factor; The matching unit is specifically used for: Matching a first charging result by using the precise charging factor, where the first charging result is the historical charging result; If there is a second charging result, matching the second charging result with the complex charging factor, where the second charging result is the first charging result that matches the precise charging factor billing result; The billing unit is specifically used for: If the matching unit determines that there is a third charging result, the third charging result is adopted, and the current service is charged according to the service usage information of the current service, and the third charging result is the A charging result matching the complex charging factor in the second charging result to obtain the charging result of the current service. 14. The device according to any one of claims 9-11, wherein the billing factor of the current service includes a serialized feature value corresponding to the billing factor of the current service, and the serialized feature The value is used to uniquely identify the charging factor; The historical billing results include billing factors and billing results corresponding to the billing factors, specifically: The historical charging results include serialized characteristic values to be matched and charging results corresponding to the serialized characteristic values to be matched, and one serialized characteristic value to be matched is used to uniquely identify a charging factor. 15. The device according to any one of claims 9-11, wherein the billing unit is further used for: If the matching unit determines that there is no historical charging result that matches the charging factor of the current service, each tariff policy in the tariff policies ordered by the user for the current service is respectively adopted to provide the current Service charging, to obtain the charging result of the current service. 16. The device of claim 15, further comprising: A storage unit, configured to use each of the tariff policies subscribed by the user for the current service in the charging unit to charge the current service, so as to obtain the charging result of the current service Afterwards, the corresponding relationship between the charging factor of the current service and the charging result of the current service is saved. 17. A service charging device, characterized in that the service charging device comprises: one or more processors, memory, bus system, transceiver and one or more application programs, said one or more processors, said memory and said transceiver being connected via said bus system; The one or more application programs are stored in the memory, the one or more application programs include instructions, and when the processor of the service charging device executes the instructions, the service charging device performs the following steps: The service charging method described in any one of claims 1-8.