System for subscriber administration in telecommunication network
First Claim
1. A system for subscriber administration in a mobile telephone network having an exchange to which is connected a service switching point SSP of an intelligent network IN, the service switching point providing access from the mobile telephone network to a number of services offered by a service control point SCP of the intelligent network, said system comprising:
- a service data point SDP associated with the service control point SCP, wherein said service data point SDP comprises a database of subscribers to be managed, and an individual subscriber record which includes at least an A-number of the subscriber;
subscriber administration logic associated with the service control point SCP, wherein said subscriber administration logic immediately creates in the database a subscriber record for a new subscriber, when the service switching point SSP has routed the call signal of a new subscriber to be managed to the intelligent network, wherein the subscriber record contains additional data including information regarding an account balance, set for the subscriber by an operator;
means for forwarding charging pulses, generated by the exchange during the call, to the service control point SCP in a manner defined by a monitoring request sent by a service control function SCF, the service control point calculating the charges for the call during the call on the basis of the charging pulses and the charging information about the call given by the service control point SCP, whereby real time charges for the call are known; and
means for reducing the account balance in real time in accordance with charges incurred during the call only when a speech connection is established with a predetermined B-subscriber number as indicated in the subscriber record.
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Abstract
A system according to the invention comprises a subscriber administration logic located at a service control point SCP of an intelligent network, and a subscriber database of a service data point SDP that is associated therewith by CCS signaling. Subscriber records of the subscriber database are created, updated and deleted by the operator, but the create, read/write and delete functions can also be performed via a telephone network associated with the intelligent network. The operator can activate the control without the subscriber noticing it. For example, as a visitor subscriber of a mobile phone network is updated to a mobile phone network, the subscriber data are automatically forwarded to the intelligent network, which creates a subscriber record for the subscriber concerned. From the exchange performing call control, charging pulses generated during the call are forwarded to the service control point SCP in the manner defined by a monitoring request sent by a service control function SCF, the service control point calculating the real time charges for the call. The current charges are compared with the value indicated by the subscriber record, and the instructions contained in the record are followed. The system makes it possible to implement both call- and subscriber-specific restrictions in real time.
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34 Claims
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1. A system for subscriber administration in a mobile telephone network having an exchange to which is connected a service switching point SSP of an intelligent network IN, the service switching point providing access from the mobile telephone network to a number of services offered by a service control point SCP of the intelligent network, said system comprising:
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a service data point SDP associated with the service control point SCP, wherein said service data point SDP comprises a database of subscribers to be managed, and an individual subscriber record which includes at least an A-number of the subscriber; subscriber administration logic associated with the service control point SCP, wherein said subscriber administration logic immediately creates in the database a subscriber record for a new subscriber, when the service switching point SSP has routed the call signal of a new subscriber to be managed to the intelligent network, wherein the subscriber record contains additional data including information regarding an account balance, set for the subscriber by an operator; means for forwarding charging pulses, generated by the exchange during the call, to the service control point SCP in a manner defined by a monitoring request sent by a service control function SCF, the service control point calculating the charges for the call during the call on the basis of the charging pulses and the charging information about the call given by the service control point SCP, whereby real time charges for the call are known; and means for reducing the account balance in real time in accordance with charges incurred during the call only when a speech connection is established with a predetermined B-subscriber number as indicated in the subscriber record. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for subscriber administration in a mobile telephone network having an exchange to which a service switching point SSP of an intelligent network IN is connected, the service switching point providing an access from the mobile telephone network to the services offered by a service control point SCP of the intelligent network, wherein said method comprises the steps of:
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managing a database of subscribers, in a service data point SDP associated with the service control point SCP, and an individual subscriber record of said database including at least an A-number of the subscriber, wherein the subscriber record contains additional data including information regarding an account balance set by an operator; generating charging pulses, and forwarding them from the exchange to the service data point SCP during the call in a manner defined by a monitoring request sent by a service control function SCF; during the call, calculating charges for the call based on the charging pulses and charging information about the call provided by the service control point SCP, wherein the real time charges for the call become known; and reducing the account balance in real time according to the charges incurred during the call only when the call is established with a predetermined B-subscriber number as indicated in the subscriber record. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method for monitoring subscriber charges in a telephone network, comprising the steps of:
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forwarding a subscriber call signal to an intelligent network by a service switching point SSP associated with an exchange of the network, wherein said subscriber call signal is associated with a triggering condition; receiving the subscriber call signal by a service control point SCP, which subsequently checks whether subscriber data is found in a database in a service data point SDP associated with the service control point SCP; monitoring the subscriber charges, after a speech connection has been established with a predefined B subscriber as defined by the subscriber data, by supplying charging pulses from the exchange to the service control point SCP and cumulatively calculating the charges for the call during the call; and continuously comparing accumulated charges with an alarm limit, as indicated in the database. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22)
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23. A method for controlling a call from a telephone capable of reaching IN services, wherein a user is provided with a personal identification and an account, said method comprising the steps of:
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triggering a call signal of the user to a service control point SCP of a telephone network by using a certain code as a trigger key; checking user authority based on a personal identification code of the user and the information received by the service control point SCP; checking the user'"'"'s current account balance from a database; and monitoring predetermined call parameters during the call based on information received by the service control point SCP. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A system for subscriber administration in a mobile telephone network having an exchange to which is connected a service switching point SSP of an intelligent network IN, the service switching point providing access from the mobile telephone network to a number of services offered by a service control point SCP of the intelligent network, said system comprising:
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a service data point SDP associated with the service control point SCP, wherein said service data point SDP comprises a database of subscribers to be managed, and an individual subscriber record which includes at least an A-number of the subscriber; and subscriber administration logic associated with the service control point SCP, wherein said subscriber administration logic immediately creates in the database a subscriber record for a new subscriber, when the service switching point SSP has routed the call signal of a new subscriber to be managed to the intelligent network, and wherein the subscriber record contains additional data including statistical data regarding subscriber calls, the operator being able to use this data to control and manage the calls of the subscriber. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34)
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