Revenue management system and method

• US 20070091874A1
• Filed: 06/28/2006
• Published: 04/26/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Labuda, David, Krishnamoorthy, Jayaprakash, Guionnet, Jerome, Levy, David, Rockel, Alexander, Velcich, Tony
• Granted Patent: US 8,116,326 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/60 Business processes related to postal services shipping G06Q10/083; franking apparatus G07B17/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1403 Architecture for metering, charging or billing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1467 involving prepayment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0852 Delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0892 by using authentication-authorization-accounting [AAA] servers or protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/8214 Data or packet based
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 17/00 Prepayment of wireline communication systems, wireless communication systems or telephone systems using a coded card to authorise calls from a telephone set H04M1/675
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/204 UMTS; GPRS
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/782 Data or packet based
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing

Abstract

A revenue management system and method for telecommunication network use is disclosed. The revenue management system can be integrated with the internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS). The revenue management system and method can have a hardware and/or software revenue generation module or architecture, revenue capture module or architecture, revenue collection module or architecture, revenue analysis module or architecture, or combinations thereof.

Claims

1. A computer system configured to manage revenue for real-time charging for telecommunication services for at least one prepaid and/or postpaid and/or now-pay account, the system comprising:

a gateway layer, a revenue capture layer, a database layer, and a storage layer.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising an in-memory object store, wherein the object store comprises RAM memory.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the revenue capture layer comprises the in-memory object store.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is scalable with regard to processors.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is scalable with regard to memory.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is configured to interface with an IMS account.

7. A revenue management system configured to perform convergent real-time charging for prepaid, postpaid, and now-pay telecommunication network user accounts.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the system is configured to interface with an IMS account.