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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2011
Sharath Rajasekar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Phelim O'doherty, San Francisco, CA (US);
Boris Selitser, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Niklas Modin, Oakland, CA (US);
Daniel Jansson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sharath Rajasekar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Phelim O'Doherty, San Francisco, CA (US);
Boris Selitser, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Niklas Modin, Oakland, CA (US);
Daniel Jansson, San Francisco, CA (US);
ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are described for integrating a gateway in a telecom network environment with charging and payment functionality. The gateway is provided with three points of integration with charging and billing servers. These three points include a payment service, a charging data record listener and a credit control interceptor. The payment service provides an interface for client applications that reside outside of the telecom network to invoke a charging request, to translate the charging request and to relay it to the billing server. The charging data record listener listens for charging data records generated within the gateway and issues offline charging requests to the billing server upon detecting that a particular charging data record has been generated. The credit control interceptor intercepts requests in the communication traffic flowing through the gateway and initiates online charging requests to the billing server upon intercepting said requests.