| In today's communications market, operators through the natural means of access to customer data has been difficult to maintain the user in the net rate, the business had to face the increasingly saturated market, this difficult situation, and in the long-term review and practice found in Respectively, through reasonable mechanisms and post-paid and prepaid users to establish a solid long-term relationship is a great way out of this dilemma, and more concerned about other major business voice average revenue per user may also reflect the greater its value.China Unicom's billing operations support system as a core component of the system, its functionality and performance to be strong enough, so better for operators continue to introduce new charges, new products and services bundled with the combination of a variety of marketing and provide a strong protection. The construction of the 3G environment, the technical specifications bodies of the quality of online billing system reference structure, that is. Online Charging System, the flexibility of real-time billing system can be completely old-fashioned mechanisms involved in the billing to the user's actual use, such as a session hosted the first time, events and other specific charges brought by the content business, has sufficient versatility and openness. OCS system is responsible for managing real-time online user accounts, process and control the online billing and consumption for different individuals and groups support the completion of full-service content, in the case of China Unicom system standpoint, the BSS the three systems in the domain business service support layer, and integrated charging and billing system in parallel with the formation of a new billing system.OCS billing engine is the core of the provincial level, it mainly consists of data management, billing gateways, account management, accounts processing, rating processing, billing control, common interface, and other major system modules. This article focuses on the billing engine accounts processing, rating processing, billing control the detailed design of three modules and processes. Provincial-level business processes, including OCS billing process and billing control rating in two areas:the provisions of rating processing according to the file and follow the flexible mechanisms of the various tariff packages and orderly complex processing operations, it is the province OCS core-level costing, according to configuration parameters are calculated, and by means of inverse calculation and benefits. Charging control line in the user's billing requests received after the start of a session request including, for example, timely status updates, event type, amount and other account management, and the whole process of participating in the event of the machine in the system the price of the balance to manage. Service request, the inverse approach is likely due to factors not fully charging online charging system has been, and batch processing module price, while in receipt of the request and use of user information by default is adequate, then the user can only be assessed the use of the services required; is considered the user can also use a reasonable amount and distribution and locked, and when the billing engine failure, the protocol adapter will be operational during the user's phone bill for the timely arrival When the engine is restored, will be collected from this part of the floor, then a single, re-rating and accounting treatment, and includes words such as emergency if one of these special orders, billing engine, a number of ways to conduct online business or temporary off-line processing. OCS system can control real-time billing, to avoid risk of the user arrears, but the current stage, there are still many problems. The current OCS system design support can only hold 200 million users, which for the future of the majority of 2G and 3G users is not enough, the OCS system is only responsible for part of the related accounting treatment, user information, account information and other content In the BSS system, which makes OCS system with CRM. BILLING, VAC has a lot of interaction, business process complex, intelligent network users to the original cut will be receiving the OCS system is running a complex and arduous task. How to better meet the OCS system support new users, while successful completion of the intelligent network user cutover will be our important task to complete.OCS can significantly reduce construction costs and the opportunity cost of arrears into account the cost, construction cost, system synthesis stability; OCS provides the introduction of IT network and business network optimization opportunity, in line with industry trends, and its introduction of the Intelligent Network and data service network traffic control network element assumes its core functions, billing, rating feature online billing by a dedicated system to complete OCS. By providing a flexible payment model, bundling, real-time services, will effectively attract customers and increase the cost of off-grid customers, thereby greatly enhancing customer loyalty, expanding the market into the virtuous circle of development track. |
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