Method and device for providing more accurate subscriber billing
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1. A method for more accurately recording subscriber device activity comprising:
- establishing a traffic channel for the subscriber device activity wherein the traffic channel provides for bearer data for user data and signaling data for non-user data;
establishing an airtime record when the traffic channel is established;
determining if data on the traffic channel sent during an airtime period is one of including bearer data and only signaling data; and
forwarding the airtime period of data activity for the airtime record to an authentication authorization and accounting node only if the determining if data on the traffic channel sent during an airtime period includes bearer data was sent, thereby preventing the airtime record from being distorted by including airtime periods when the data on the traffic channel sent during an airtime period includes only signaling data.
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Abstract
A PDSN (18) includes a usage recording agent (19) for distinguishing between nonbillable and billable activity of a subscriber device 12. The usage recording agent (19) creates a record of a total number of bytes transmitted from the PDSN (18) to the RAN (14), counts bytes that are retransmitted from the PDSN (18) for providing a retransmitted byte total, and forwards the retransmitted byte total and the record to an AAA (28) so that the record can be adjusted in accordance with the retransmitted byte total.
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1. A method for more accurately recording subscriber device activity comprising:
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establishing a traffic channel for the subscriber device activity wherein the traffic channel provides for bearer data for user data and signaling data for non-user data; establishing an airtime record when the traffic channel is established; determining if data on the traffic channel sent during an airtime period is one of including bearer data and only signaling data; and forwarding the airtime period of data activity for the airtime record to an authentication authorization and accounting node only if the determining if data on the traffic channel sent during an airtime period includes bearer data was sent, thereby preventing the airtime record from being distorted by including airtime periods when the data on the traffic channel sent during an airtime period includes only signaling data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for more accurately recording subscriber device activity comprising:
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counting bytes that are forwarded to a radio access network; sending a notification of data arrival to a subscriber device determining if a subscriber device has responded to a notification of data arrival sent from the radio access network; counting bytes that are sent to the subscriber device until it is determined that the subscriber device has responded to the notification of data arrival, and accumulating a byte count of bytes received only if the subscriber device has responded to a notification of data arrival sent from the radio access network by subtracting the number of the bytes that are sent to the subscriber device until it is determined that the subscriber device has responded to the notification of data arrival from the total number of bytes forwarded to the radio access network. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9)
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