JPH0622057A - Charging system for operation information customer access - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the charging system for operation information customer access capable of providing a network service carrier with a charging system corresponding to tariff tank or the quantity of collected information by customers. CONSTITUTION:This system is provided with a storage means 2 to store the respective kinds of information, an information quantity preparing means 5 to prepare the data of information quantity corresponding to the quantity of information received from a communication network 9 to the customer 1, and a tariff rank storage means 7 to store the tariff rank per unit information quantity for every customer 1. Further, the system is provided with a charging information preparing means 6 to prepare charging information from the tariff rank storage means 7 based on the information quantity prepared by the information quantity preparing means 5, and a charging means 8 to charge the customer 1 or the number designated by the information stored in the storage means 2.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a charging system for operating information customer access, and more particularly to a charging system for operating information customer access for service management individually performed for each customer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional customer access control technology, "Verification method of customer-defined service specifications in intelligent network" (Gigaku Technical Report 90-19).
And “Automatic service creation environment configuration method in IN” (Science Technical Report 90-116). With this customer-defined service specification and automatic service creation, the customer himself / herself can define the service conditions required by the customer, and operation information such as traffic can be collected under customer control.

In the operational information in communication network management,
Some information, such as bills of charges, can be requested by the customer.
Provided via the operator.

[0004]

However, in the conventional customer-defined service specification and automatic service creation, the access of the customer is not individually charged, and the charging is performed according to the access frequency of the customer and the amount of collected information. There is a problem that you can not.

Regarding operation information in communication network management, although some information such as charge details is provided via the operator at the request of the customer, it is flexible despite the labor and time of the operator. Can not be charged.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and solves the problem that the charge cannot be made according to the access frequency and the amount of collected information of the customer, and the charge system according to the charge rank and the amount of collected information of each customer. It is an object of the present invention to provide a charging system for operating information customer access that can provide network service carriers.

[0007]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the principle of the present invention.

The present invention stores each information for each customer 1 in a system including various operation systems 3 for collecting and managing traffic information, billing information and operation status information of communication network constituent devices received from the communication network 9. The storage means 2 and the information amount creating means for creating data of the information amount corresponding to the information amount received by the customer 1 from the communication network 9 through the operation system 3 when each information is stored in the storage means 2. 5, a charge rank storage means 7 for storing a charge rank per unit information amount, and a charge information creation means 6 for creating charge information from the charge rank storage means 7 based on the information amount created by the information amount creation means 5. , A billing means 8 for billing a telephone number designated by the information stored in the customer 1 or the storage means 2 or a personal number in personal communication Including the.

[0009]

The present invention provides, as a method for realizing flexible charging,
It is necessary to have a function of charging for the amount of information received by the customer in conjunction with the transfer of operation information from the communication network via the operation system. The billing information is calculated from the charge rank per unit amount of information and the amount of information provided by the customer. Each time the customer himself accesses the traffic information in the network of his or her service, the operation information such as the failure status, the charge rank per unit information amount is added, and the access fee can be calculated according to the collected information amount. Therefore, it is not only the method of uniformly charging for each service,
Flexible billing according to the charge rank for each customer and the amount of information collected.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

The billing information used when billing the customer is calculated by the charge rank per unit amount of information and the amount of information provided. At this time, as the charge rank per unit amount of information, the customer rank in consideration of the discount rate based on the customer scale and access frequency, traffic information, failure information, operation information rank based on the operation information type to collect charge information, etc. There are information ranks that consider the discount rate at the time of transfer, ranks by access time that consider the effective use of transfer resources, and so on.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing an operational information access model according to the first embodiment of the present invention. As a functional block of the system, a customer 11 and a customer access reception function 1 for receiving access from the customer 11
2. Communication network 1 for transmitting the requested information to the customer 11.
3. A collection management operation system 14 that collects and manages operation information from the communication network 13, and an operation information collection management function 15 that instructs the operation system 14 to transfer operation information when the operation information collection request is issued from the customer 11 and the customer 11. Operation information collection management function 1
5, the information amount creation function 16 for calculating the information amount for each customer, the charge rank management table 17 for managing the charge rank per unit information amount for each customer service, and the information created by the information amount creation function 16 There is a billing information creating function 18 that inquires the billing rank in the billing rank management table 17 based on the amount and determines a billing fee, and a billing system 19 that stores the billing information transferred from the billing information creating function 18.

Now, a process in which the customer 11 issues an operation information collection request and charges the customer 11 will be described. (1) The customer 11 inputs an operation information collection request to the customer access reception function 12 via the customer interface. (2) When the customer 11 receives the operation information collection request, the customer access acceptance function 12 requests the operation information collection / management function 15 to transfer the operation information. (3) The operation information collection management function 15 collects the operation information from the communication network 13 via the operation system 14, and the collected operation information is sent to the customer 11 via the customer access reception function 12 according to the designation of the customer 11. Forward. In addition, the operation information collection management function 15 transfers the operation information necessary for billing to the information amount creation function 16. (4) The information amount creating function 16 creates the information amount transferred to the customer 11 from the collected operation information and transfers it to the billing information creating function 18. (5) The charging information creation function 18 refers to the charge rank management table 17, calculates the access charge according to the amount of information transferred from the information amount creation function 16, and creates charging information. The billing information creation function 18 transfers the created billing information to the billing system 19. (6) The billing system 19 stores for each telephone number used by the designated customer 11 or individual number for personal communication.

In the above process, it is necessary to trigger the transfer of operation information from the operation information collection management function 15 to the customer 11 via the customer access reception function 12 and to charge the operation amount collection management function 15 to the information amount creation function 16. The operation information transfer trigger is specified by the operation information collection request of the customer 11 or the like. In addition, charging a telephone number in the charging system 19 or a personal number in personal communication is
It can be specified by the operation information collection request from the customer 11.

Therefore, it is possible to calculate the access charge corresponding to the information amount of the operation information collected in response to the request from the customer 11 and to charge the designated number.

As a result, it is possible to flexibly charge according to the charge rank for each customer and the amount of collected information according to the access of the operational information of the customer 11.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining the charging for each access request from the customer according to the second embodiment of the present invention. In the figure,
The same components as those in FIG. 2 are designated by the same reference numerals and the description thereof will be omitted.

In this embodiment, a billing is performed when a service contract in which a discount rate is applied to a fee is concluded with the customer 11, and billing calculation is performed every time an access request is made from the customer. It is a method.

When the customer 11 accesses the operation information, the operation information is transferred depending on whether or not there is a service contract,
You will be charged. In this embodiment, a charge is made for each access request from the customer 11, that is, a charge is made each time the customer 11 requests operation information.

The process of the second embodiment will now be described. (1) The operation information collection management function 15 transfers the operation information to the customer 11 as well as the operation information necessary for billing to the information amount creation function 16 for each operation information access request from the customer 11. (2) The information amount creating function 16 calculates the information amount from the operation information provided to the customer 11 and transfers it to the billing information creating function 18, as in the first embodiment. (3) The billing information creation function 18 searches the charge rank management table 17 based on the service contract information together with the information amount calculated by the information amount creation function 16, and the information amount creation function 16
Charging information is calculated from the amount of information of the above and the charge rank of the charge rank management table 17, and transferred to the charge system 19 via the charge system interface. (4) The charging system 19 charges the operation information collection request from the customer 11, the telephone number specified in the service contract information, or the personal number in personal communication based on the charging information.

Therefore, it becomes possible to charge each access request from the customer 11, and if there is a service contract at the time of requesting operation information, the contract can be taken into consideration and the charge can be flexibly charged for each customer access. You can charge effectively according to.

Next, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the charging every time the operation information is collected in the third embodiment of the present invention. In FIG.
The same components as in FIG. In the second embodiment, the charge is made using the service contract information for each access request, but this embodiment describes a case where the charge is made based on the service contract information every time the operation information is collected.

Now, the process of the third embodiment will be described. (1) The operation information collection management function 15 collects operation information from the communication network 13 via the collection management operation system 14, and transfers the operation information necessary for billing to the information amount creation function 16. (2) The billing information creation function 18 collates information from the amount of information from the information amount creation function 16 and the charge rank from the charge rank management table 17 based on the service contract information, creates billing information, and charges. Transfer to system 19. (3) The billing system 19 bills the telephone number specified by the service contract information or the personal number in personal communication by the billing information created by the billing information creating function 18.

Therefore, it is possible to more flexibly charge each time operation information is collected, as compared with the prior art, and it is possible to effectively charge according to the operation information collection frequency.

Next, a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining the charge for each regular transfer of operation information to a customer according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

The present embodiment is a billing method in the case where the service contract information of the customer 11 is designated to transfer the operation information on a regular basis.

The process of the fourth embodiment will now be described. (1) When the service contract information is the charge for each regular transfer of the operational information to the customer, the operational information collection management function 15 is required for the regular transfer of the operational information to the customer 11 and the charge to the information amount creation function 16. Transfer operational information. (2) The information amount creating function 16 creates the information amount of the operation information transferred to the customer 11 and transfers it to the billing information creating function 18. (3) The billing information creating function 18 creates billing information from the information amount of the information amount creating function 16 and the charge rank of the charge rank management table 17, and transfers it to the billing system 19. (4) The charging system 19 charges the telephone number specified in the service contract information or the personal number in personal communication by the charging system 19.

Therefore, as compared with the conventional technique, it is possible to flexibly charge each time the operation information is regularly transferred to the customer, and it is possible to effectively charge according to the periodic operation information providing cycle.

[0031]

As described above, according to the present invention, the charge target and the charge can be determined for each request from the customer, every time the operation information is collected, and each time the operation information is regularly transferred to the customer. There is an advantage that effective billing can be performed according to the frequency of operating, the periodic cycle, and the amount of operation information.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a principle configuration diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing an operation information access model according to the first embodiment of this invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining charging for each request from a customer according to the second embodiment of this invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining billing every time operation information is collected according to the third embodiment of this invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining an explanation of each regular transfer of operation information to a customer according to the fourth embodiment of this invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Customer 2 Storage Means 3 Operation System 4 Information 5 Information Amount Creation Means 6 Billing Information Creation Means 7 Charge Rank Storage Means 8 Billing Means 11 Customers 12 Customer Access Reception Functions 13 Communication Networks 14 Collection Management Operation Systems 15 Operation Information Collection Management Functions 16 Information amount creation function 17 Charge rank management table 18 Billing information creation function 19 Billing system

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A system including various operation systems for collecting and managing traffic information, billing information, and operation state information of communication network constituent devices received from a communication network, and a storage means for storing each information for each customer. An amount-of-information creating unit that creates data of an amount of information corresponding to the amount of information received by the customer from the communication network via the operation system when each of the information is stored in the storage unit; A charge rank storing means for storing a charge rank per amount; a charge information creating means for creating charge information from the charge rank storing means based on the information amount created by the information amount creating means; the customer or the And a charging means for charging a telephone number specified by the information stored in the storage means or a personal number in personal communication. Accounting method for the operational information the customer access to the butterflies.