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Sonera Oyj

Tero Huostila

Kimmo Keinänen

Ari Juntunen

Sami Ala-Luukko

Marko Immonen

The invention relates to a network part and a method for generating billing data in a mobile communications system employing a wireless application protocol. The network part of the mobile communications system comprises: means for setting up a bi-directional wireless data transmission connection to a subscriber terminal; means for transmitting a service request sent by the subscriber terminal to a contents server providing the service; means for transmitting response data generated in the contents server on the basis of the service request to the subscriber terminal; identifying means for identifying transactions associated with the service from among the service requests and the response data on the basis of the identification of the Internet address of the service referred to in the service request and the response data; and billing means for generating billing data for the service using the transactions identified on the basis of the service's Internet address.

Billing in mobile communications system employing wireless application protocol

A WAP Charging Gateway, and a method and system, for arranging transaction-based billing for WAP services in a telecommunication system that includes a telecommunication network, a terminal device connected to the telecommunication network and used for accessing WAP services, a WAP Gateway connected to the telecommunication network, a content provider of WAP services connected to the WAP Gateway, a billing log file, a transaction manager for recording transactions associated with billable services and generated from different WAP protocol levels in the billing log file, and reading devices for reading the billing log file. Transactions associated with billable services, generated from different WAP protocol levels, are written to the billing log file and are read from the billing log file (LOG). The transactions in the billing log file are converted into a readable form. First rules are applied to the converted transactions to generate and store predefined transaction parameters, and second rules are then applied to the stored transaction parameters for generating chargeable transactions therefrom.

Transaction-based service billing in a telecommunication system

In the inventive system, a telecommunication network includes a calling subscriber's terminal equipment, a called subscriber's terminal equipment, a home location register of the calling subscriber's subscription, a home location register of the called subscriber's subscription, a calling subscriber's visited mobile switching center, a communication server for route optimization of the connection to be set up, and a mobile switching center under which the called subscriber is located. A telecommunication connection is set up from the visited mobile switching center to the mobile switching center on the basis of call pricing data and/or network configuration data. The call pricing data and/or network configuration data for a variety of different possible routes are identified or determined by means of the communication server and used to identify the optimum route for the telecommunication connection.

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