Alcatel Lucent

Motorola Corporation

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.

Soon Teck Gibson Ang

Jin Jing

Jie Wang

Min Jiang

Jill Christine Wheeler

William Turner Scott

Xian Cheng

King Ma

Karina Burchard

Thierry Van De Velde

Jie Feng

Xian Chen

Ma King

An accounting method, system, device, and a computer-readable medium. The accounting method, system, device, and a computer-readable medium provide for measuring a time interval between arrival of two adjacent packets, comparing the measured time interval to a predetermined threshold, and determining whether the measured time interval is an active packet transfer time based on the comparison. Accordingly, an active packet transfer time in a connection is obtained.

Accounting based on active packet time

A system and method of enabling transmission control protocol (TCP) splice between a client application and a server, while maintaining control of the connections by a contest-based charging proxy. The system framework includes a TCP splicing module for splicing connections between a client application and a server, an application proxy (e.g., content-based charging proxy) for redirecting a request of the client application, and a content-based charging engine for determining the classification of the data flow between the client application and the server. If the data flow has a predetermined classification or a triggering event has been detected, the content-based charging engine transfers control of the connections to the application proxy. The application proxy, for example, can redirect the client application to a predetermined service or source based on the classification of the data flow.

System and method of enabling TCP splice with a content-based charging proxy

Systems and methods for optimizing resources of a packet service gateway are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a telecommunication system includes a servicing node, a gateway node connecting the servicing node to a data network, and a control node virtualizing the connection of the servicing node to the data network when the connection is inactive for a predetermined period of time. The control node can include a memory storing control information of inactive connections to the data network, and a processor processing and generating requests to and from the servicing node and the gateway node. According to another embodiment, a method of establishing a connection to a data network includes requesting a connection to the data network by a servicing node, connecting the servicing node to the data network via a gateway node, and virtualizing, by a control node, the connection of the servicing node to the data network.

System, node, and method optimizing data connections for packet services

A system and method of enabling transmission control protocol (TCP) splice between a client application and a server, while maintaining control of the connections by a content-based charging proxy. The system framework includes a TCP splicing module for splicing connections between a client application and a server, an application proxy (e.g., content-based charging proxy) for redirecting a request of the client application, and a content-based charging engine for determining the classification of the data flow between the client application and the server. If the data flow has a predetermined classification or a triggering event has been detected, the content-based charging engine transfers control of the connections to the application proxy. The application proxy, for example, can redirect the client application to a predetermined service or source based on the classification of the data flow.

A module interfaces a mobile communications network to a packet data network and is capable of implementing an Intelligent Network Service for a packet-switched service for subscribers of the mobile communications network. A network interface module may be operative to implement such prepaid charging in real-time. The network interface module may determine both a count and a time period from the prepaid balance, and compare the number of information units exchanged during the service and the duration of the service against the count and time period, respectively. An entry for a subscriber in a Subscriber Information Registry of a home mobile communications network may be defined such that when a subscriber roams into a visited mobile communications network, the network interface module of the home mobile communications network is used to implement a session between the mobile terminal of the subscriber and a node of a packet data network.

Implementing an intelligent network service for a packet-switched service using a node interfacing a mobile communications network to a packet data network

A mobile internet protocol on a radio signaling channel (). A mobile internet protocol message is wrapped in a radio control message () by a mobile station () and sent to a radio access network (). The mobile internet protocol message is unwrapped by the radio access network and routed to a home agent () for authentication.

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