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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2020
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Om Prakash Suthar, Bolingbrook, IL (US);
Santhosh Shenoy Panambur, Karnataka, IN;
Raghavendra Vidyashankar Suryanarayanarao, Bangalore South, IN;
Tae Ryoung Hur, Tokyo, JP;
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques and mechanisms for asynchronously initiating online charging triggers in mobile networks are described. A control plane gateway or 'GW-C' may obtain from a mobility management entity (MME) a create session request associated with an attach request for a user equipment (UE). The GW-C may send to an online charging system (OCS) a Gy credit-control request for requesting a quota of units (e.g. a resource usage quota) associated with a subscriber of the UE. Prior to sending the Gy credit-control request or obtaining a Gy credit-control answer, the GW-C may send to the MME a create session response which prompts an attach accept or reject of the attach request. The Gy credit-control request may be sent to the OCS during an attach procedure associated with the attach request for the UE or, alternatively, in response to receiving a user data packet of the session as a notification.