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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2020
T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Jyot Kumar, Issaquah, WA (US);
Nitin Bhakri, Issaquah, WA (US);
T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed embodiments include a method for offline charging performed by an anchoring node of a telecommunications network. The anchoring node can send a request to an online charging system (OCS), where the request is for online metering of a call by a subscriber of the telecommunications network. The anchoring node may obtain an indication of an exception to the online metering of the call. In response, the anchoring node can perform a default call handling (DCH) procedure to allow the call on the telecommunications network despite an inability to perform the online metering. The anchoring node also generates a modified charging detail record (CDR) that includes an indication of the exception. The anchoring node can then send a message, which includes at least an indication of the modified CDR, to enable a mediation server to perform offline charging for the call.