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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ravi Kothari, Bangalore, IN;
Dilip Krishnaswamy, Bangalore, IN;
Mukundan Madhavan, Bangalore, IN;
Vijay Purushottam Gabale, Bangalore, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products for distributed and localized policy and charging control in cellular networks are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes configuring, within a network, (i) policy and charging enforcement functionality and (ii) policy and charging rules functionality by: implementing (i) remote policy and charging enforcement functionality components and (ii) remote policy and charging rules functionality components within the network, wherein each of the remote components executes in a virtual machine on a compute node that is co-located with an evolved node B; and retaining (i) centralized policy and charging enforcement functionality components and (ii) centralized policy and charging rules functionality components within the network; and executing transactions on the network via: implementing an interaction between (a) the centralized components and (b) the remote components to transmit information to a billing system associated with the telecommunications network.