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System for providing flexible charging in a network

  • US 7,450,591 B2
  • Filed: 06/27/2003
  • Issued: 11/11/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A charging system in a packet switched network for charging packets differently dependent on which service flow the packets belong to, the charging system comprising:

  • a control system and a serving element associated with a packet forwarding system wherein said control system comprises;

    an account function for managing an account of at least one user, anda charging policy decision point for calculating a different charging policy for each of a plurality of allowed services for the at least one user,wherein said serving element comprises;

    a token bucket associated with the at least one user, said token bucket for storing reservations for a plurality of service flows received from the account function of the at least one user, anda charging policy enforcement point for performing charging for the plurality of service flows by reducing the stored reservation of the token bucket according to the calculated charging policies.

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