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Method and system for detailed accounting of packet data

  • US 20060056415A1
  • Filed: 11/08/2005
  • Published: 03/16/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of generating billing data for use of mobile data services, the method comprising:

  • obtaining an acknowledgement (ACK) number included in a hyper text transfer protocol (HTTP) response that corresponds to a HTTP request and is transmitted from a content server to a user terminal as a first parameter;

    obtaining a content-length field value included in the HTTP response as a second parameter;

    obtaining a header length that is calculated from a transmission control protocol (TCP) payload of a first packet of the HTTP response as a third parameter;

    obtaining an ACK number included in an ACK message that corresponds to the HTTP response and is transmitted from the user terminal to the content server as a fourth parameter;

    determining whether or not the fourth parameter is equal to or greater than a fifth parameter that is a sum of the first parameter, the second parameter and the third parameter; and

    generating billing data if the fourth parameter is equal to or greater than the fifth parameter.

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