Service Charging Platform

Charging & Rating Engine

0Quota Manager0Counter Type Management0Screen Units and Multiplier0Destination Matching Criteria0Service Level0Customer Specific

0Counter Management0Matching Criteria Management

Modules

Charging & Rating Engine0Matching Criteria is a powerful tool that allows to set

parameters and rules for matching the counters with input as received from the network

0Absolute Time0Calling Station0Framed IP0Realm0Application0Device0Others extensible

0Counter Units Basis0Counter Priority Management

Charging & Rating Engine0Proration Policy Management0Sub-Unit Management0Reset Interval0Enforcement Type0Subscription State0Customer Destination Management0Counter Matching

Charging & Rating Engine0Counter Instance Management0Create0Charge0Reset Sub-Unit0Reset All0Quota Transfer

0Friend & Family Counters

Charging & Rating Engine0Charging Function0Counter Charging0Monetary Charging0Connection Charges0Duration based charging0Usage based charging0Event based charging0Multiple rounding schemes for used units0Re-Rating application

Charging & Rating Engine0Rate Sheet Management0Add Rate Sheet0Bulk Import Rate Sheet0Update Rate Sheet

Charging & Rating Engine0Rating Function0Flat Rates0Time varying rates for duration, usage and events

0Time of Day (Peak / Off-Peak) rates0Day of Week (Weekday / Weekend) rates0Day of Week / Time of Day0Holiday0Custom

0Progressive rates for duration, usage and events 

Charging & Rating Engine0Authorization Function0Counter Matching0Rate Matching0Balance verification0Return of total allowed units of Duration, Usage or

Events to enforcement point 

Charging & Rating Engine0Online Charging System0Multiple Charging Basis

0Duration0Usage0Events

0Multiple simultaneous charging for single session based on Duration and Usage

Charging & Rating Engine0Reservation of Counter Units or monetary credit0Use of single customer balance for multiple

concurrent sessions without credit risk0Change of tariff and change of counter support0Support for Radius or Diameter server0Service Denial based on time of day through rating

engine

Charging & Rating Engine0 Interim Accounting Function0Real-Time charging of session on every interim on

multiple basis0Duration0Usage

0Functioning with or without unit reservation0Detailed sub-records for each session for counter

and rating changes 

Charging & Rating Engine0Stop Accounting Function0Charging of Counters0Charging of Credit Account0Refund of unused counter and credit units 

Charging & Rating Engine0Special Numbers Management0Emergency Numbers

Calls to Emergency numbers succeed in all cases without user authentication or any other type of authorization

0Assistance NumbersCalls to special numbers like directory assistance numbers succeed after user authentication but without any credit checks

0Forbidden NumbersA list of numbers and prefixes that are specially forbidden system wide. Over rides any permission that may be available in the rate sheets

0Hot-lining Numbers

Charging & Rating EngineA list of access numbers to which calls are always allowed even for unidentified subscribers and are not charged

0Free Numbers / URIsA list of numbers / URIs to which calls are allowed for free without charging but only available to identified subscribers

0Toll Free NumbersA list of incoming numbers with a Rate Adjustment to the standard per minute rate on the call

Charging & Rating Engine0Charging Policy Management0Minimum Chargeable Duration0Rounding Intervals0Rate Multipliers0Default Rates0Usage Blocks (MB, GB)0Minimum Balance

Charging & Rating Engine0Reconciliation Lite0Reconciliation with secondary CDR sources 

Charging & Rating Engine0Mediation Lite

A CDR Mediation application that parses text based CDRs and gives to Charging Applications for Accounting 

0Administration GUI

Charging & Rating Engine

0Bundled QuotasBundled Quotas allow a Service Provider to offer some usage of a Service included in the Subscription Charges which are deducted periodically http://x.co/kbbqu

Business Use Cases

Charging & Rating Engine

0Fair-Usage PoliciesFair-Usage Policies allow a Service Provider to define limits of usage that a Customer can make after which the Fair-Usage policies start applying. Typical options for Fair-Usage policies are to throttle bandwidth, deny service or start charging http://x.co/kbfairu 

Business Use Cases

Charging & Rating Engine

0Sub-Interval Restrictions Sub-Units are a way to define usage limits at a frequency higher than the total subscription cycle http://x.co/ucsub

Business Use Cases

Charging & Rating Engine

0Progressive Rates Progressive Rates are used in charging to offer such rates that are progressively changing relative to some criteria. Different such criteria are supported. http://x.co/ucprog 0Bill Shock Prevention

Business Use Cases

Charging & Rating Engine

0Bill Shock Prevention

Business Use Cases

Charging & Rating Engine0Charging

0 Counter Charging 0Counters for specific destinations0Counters for specific time slots0Fair-usage thresholds for counters0Higher frequency sub-units like daily or weekly limits

within a monthly counter0Friend n Family and other user specific counters

0 Work flows for arbitrary business logic to allow setting such counters0 Interface with subscriber self-serve

Charging & Rating Engine0 Monetary Charging

0Connection Charges0Duration based charging0Usage based charging0Event based charging

0 Multiple rounding schemes for used units0 Re-Rating application

Charging & Rating Engine0Rating

0 Time varying rates for duration, usage and events0 Progressive rates for duration, usage and events0 Hooks for arbitrary rating schemes0 Rating Classes

0Hooks for arbitrary rules definition for rating classes

Charging & Rating Engine0Prefix Matching for counters or rating

0 Longest Prefix matching0 Exact Prefix matching0 Substring matching0 Start string matching0 Others definable through hooks

Charging & Rating Engine0Authorization Application

0 Counter Matching0 Rate Matching0 Balance verification0 Return of total allowed units of Duration, Usage or

Events to enforcement point

Charging & Rating Engine0 Unit Reservation or Online Charging (OCS)

Application 0 Multiple Charging Basis

0Duration0Usage0 Events

0 Multiple simultaneous charging for single session based on Duration and Usage

0 Reservation of Counter Units or monetary credit0 Use of single customer balance for multiple concurrent

sessions without credit risk0 Change of tarriff and change of counter support0 Support for Radius or Diameter server0 Service Denial based on time of day through rating engine

Charging & Rating Engine0 Interim Accounting Application

0 Real-Time charging of session on every interim on multiple basis 0Duration0Usage

0 Functioning with or without unit reservation0 Detailed sub-records for each session for counter and

rating changes

Charging & Rating Engine0Stop Accounting Application

0 Refund of unused counter and credit units

Charging & Rating Engine0Revenue Assurance

0 Reconciliation with secondary CDR sources

Charging & Rating Engine0Credit Control

0 Real-Time interface to account balance management0 Real-Time interface to taxation0 Comprehensive alerting