WO2012083599A1

WO2012083599A1 - Method, gateway and system for arrearages control

Info

Publication number: WO2012083599A1
Application number: PCT/CN2011/070604
Authority: WO
Inventors: 周士俊
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2010-12-23
Filing date: 2011-01-25
Publication date: 2012-06-28
Also published as: CN102547641A

Abstract

The invention discloses a method, a gateway and a system for arrearages control, and the method includes that: a gateway for arrearages control receives an authentication request message transmitted from an information center for confirming the arrearages situation of a transmission end (301); the gateway for arrearages control transmits the authentication request message to a Business Operation Support System (BOSS), and receives authentication result information generated by the BOSS according to the authentication request message (302); the gateway for arrearages control transmits the authentication result information to the information center, and the information center responses the request message from the transmission end according to the authentication result information (303). Therefore，the invention is capable to release the resources occupied by an arrearages user in time, to avoid resources waste, and to allocate the limited resources properly. The invention further discloses a gateway and a system for arrearages control.

Description

Arrears control method, gateway and system

The present invention relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to an arrears control method, a gateway, and a system. Background technique

Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is capable of transmitting multimedia content message services between multiple applications, such as transmitting multimedia messages between senders, between service providers and senders, between senders and email servers. . The multimedia message service is divided according to the operator to which the sender belongs, and the area to which the sender belongs. The multimedia message center to which the sender belongs is provided with the multimedia message service for the sender.

The BOSS (Business and Operation Support System) mainly includes billing and settlement systems, business and accounting systems, customer service systems and decision support systems for vertical and horizontal management. The first thing the BOSS system needs to do is to vertically integrate different services in a certain business process, for example, to integrate long-distance, local calls, and data in accounting management. For horizontal integration, it is an organic whole that combines business, accounting, customer relationships, and decision support for management to improve operational efficiency.

The charging control method adopted by the existing BOSS system is not real-time charging, and there is a certain risk of arrears, and the resources occupied by the arrears users cannot be released in time, thereby causing waste of resources and failing to achieve limited resources. Reasonable distribution. Summary of the invention

The invention provides an arrears control method, a gateway and a system, so as to avoid the risk of arrears, release the resources occupied by the arrears users in time, thereby avoiding waste of resources and being able to reasonably allocate limited resources. The specific technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present invention are as follows:

An arrears control system, including:

An information center, configured to generate an authentication request message for determining a situation of arrears of the sender, and sending the authentication request message to the arrears control gateway, and receiving the authentication result information sent by the arrears control gateway, and according to The authentication result information is sent to the request message of the sending end; the arrears control gateway is configured to receive an authentication request message sent by the information center, send the authentication request message to the service operation support system, and receive the service The operation support system sends the authentication result information, and sends the authentication result information to the information center;

The service operation support system is configured to receive an authentication request message sent by the arrears control gateway, generate authentication result information for the authentication request message, and send the authentication result information to the arrears control gateway.

An arrears control gateway, including:

a first processing unit, configured to receive an authentication request message generated by the information center to determine a situation of arrears of the sender;

a second processing unit, configured to send the authentication request message to the service operation support system, and receive the authentication result information generated by the service operation support system according to the authentication request message;

And a third processing unit, configured to send the authentication result information to the information center, and the information center responds to the request message of the sending end according to the authentication result information.

A method of arrears control, including:

The arrears control gateway receives an authentication request message generated by the information center to determine the arrears of the sender;

Sending the authentication request message to the service operation support system, and receiving the authentication result information generated by the service operation support system according to the authentication request message;

Sending the authentication result information to the information center, and according to the information center The weight result information is responsive to the request message of the sender.

Based on the foregoing technical solution, in the embodiment of the present invention, the arrears control gateway receives the authentication request message generated by the information center to determine the arrears of the sender, and sends the authentication request message to the service operation support system to receive the The service operation support system sends the authentication result information to the information center according to the authentication result information generated by the foregoing authentication request message, and finally the information center responds to the request message of the sending end according to the authentication result information, if the authentication result If the information indicates that the sender has owed the fee, the current request of the sender is terminated, thereby effectively avoiding the risk of arrears, and releasing the resources occupied by the arrears user according to the authentication result, thereby avoiding waste of resources and being limited. Resources are allocated reasonably. DRAWINGS

1 is a structural diagram of an arrears control system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a structural diagram of an arrears control gateway according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a detailed flowchart of a method for controlling arrears according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of message transmission for arrears control according to an embodiment of the present invention. detailed description

In order to avoid the waste of resources caused by the inability to release the resources occupied by the arrears users in time, the present invention provides a method, a gateway and a system for arrears control, which can release the resources occupied by the arrears users in time, thereby avoiding waste of resources. Resources are allocated reasonably. The method is: the arrears control gateway receives an authentication request message generated by the information center to determine the arrears of the sender, sends the authentication request message to the service operation support system, and receives the service operation support system according to the foregoing The authentication result information generated by the right request message is sent to the information center, and the information center responds to the request message of the sending end according to the authentication result information.

The preferred technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Referring to FIG. 1 , in the embodiment of the present invention, the arrears control system mainly includes an information center 10, an arrears control gateway 11 and a BOSS system 12, wherein

The information center 10 is configured to generate an authentication request message for determining a situation of the arrears of the sending end, send the authentication request message to the arrears control gateway 11, and receive the authentication result information, and according to the authentication result information The request message of the sender responds;

The arrears control gateway 11 is configured to receive an authentication request message sent by the information center 10, send the authentication request message to the service operation support system 12, and receive the authentication result information sent by the service operation support system 12, and The right result information is sent to the information center 10;

The service operation support system 12 is configured to receive an authentication request message sent by the arrears control gateway 11, and generate authentication result information for the authentication request message, and send the authentication result information to the arrears control gateway 11.

Referring to FIG. 2, in the embodiment of the present invention, the arrears control gateway 11 mainly includes the following processing units:

The first processing unit 201 is configured to receive an authentication request message generated by the information center to determine a situation of the arrears of the sender;

The first processing unit 202 is configured to send an authentication request message to the service operation support system, and receive the authentication result information generated by the service operation support system according to the authentication request message;

The third processing unit 203 is configured to send the authentication result information to the information center, and the information center responds to the request message of the sending end according to the foregoing authentication result information.

In an existing network environment, each operator may have multiple information centers and multiple service operation support systems (BOSS). If multiple information centers are directly connected to multiple BOSS systems, the connection relationship is complicated. And when adding or reducing network devices, the changes involved are large, take a long time, and are prone to errors. In the embodiment of the present invention, the arrears control gateway is used to connect multiple information centers and multiple BOSS systems, and the routing relationship between the information center and the BOSS system is configured in the arrears control gateway. In the embodiment of the present invention, the information center may be a service center such as a multimedia message center or a short message center, and the method of the present invention can be applied to multiple services to perform arrears control for multiple services. In the following embodiments, only the MMS service is taken as an example for description.

Based on the above system architecture, referring to FIG. 3, in the embodiment of the present invention, the detailed procedure of the arrears control method is as follows:

Step 301: The arrears control gateway receives an authentication request message sent by the information center to determine the arrears of the sender.

In the embodiment of the present invention, before the arrears control gateway receives the authentication request message sent by the information center to determine the arrears of the sender, the information center receives the request message of the sender, and the request message includes at least the identifier information of the sender, locally. The cached graylist list queries whether the identifier information of the sender exists, and when it is determined that the identifier information of the sender is present, the authentication request message is generated based on the request message of the sender, and is sent to the arrears control gateway.

The identifier stored in the gray list is the identifier of the sender whose call balance is lower than the set threshold. For example, when it is determined that the credit balance of the sender is less than 5 yuan, the identity information of the sender is graylisted.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the authentication request message includes at least the identifier information of the sender and the request instruction code indicating the arrears. The request instruction code is an agreement between the information center, the arrears control gateway, and the BOSS system.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the BOSS system extracts the gray list according to the predetermined time interval, and performs classification according to the information center to which the sender belongs, generates a gray list for the information center, and sends the gray list to the arrears control gateway. Preferably, the identifier of the information center is named and transmitted to the corresponding information center and stored in the agreed directory. The arrears control gateway detects whether the above-mentioned agreed directory has a new graylist list according to a predetermined time interval, and modifies the name of the graylist list when processing the new graylist list, for example, using the graylist identifier to add the processing time. Modify the name of the graylist list to avoid overwriting the graylist list for the same message center the next time. The arrears control gateway parses the information center identifier included in the graylist list name when processing the new graylist list in the agreed directory, and sends the graylist list to the corresponding information center according to the information center identifier, and saves In the agreed directory. Similarly, the information center detects whether there is a new graylist list in the above-mentioned agreed directory according to a predetermined time interval, and when using and processing the graylist list, first clears the cache of the graylist list, and saves the new graylist list. To the cache.

Step 302: Send an authentication request message to the service operation support system, and receive the authentication result information generated by the service operation support system according to the foregoing authentication request message.

When the service operation support system generates the authentication result information according to the authentication request message, the service operation support system searches for the credit balance corresponding to the identification information of the sender according to the authentication request message, and generates the authentication result information according to the credit balance, and The authentication result information is sent to the arrears control gateway.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the arrears control gateway sends the authentication request message to the corresponding BOSS system according to the routing relationship between the locally configured information center and the BOSS system.

For example, the information center carries the information center identifier when sending the authentication request message, and the arrears control gateway obtains the routing information according to the mapping relationship between the locally configured information center identifier and the BOSS system; or, the arrears control gateway sends the information in the receiving information center. When the authentication request message is obtained, the IP address of the information center is obtained, and the corresponding information center identifier is obtained according to the corresponding relationship between the IP address of the information center and the information center identifier, and the information center identifier and BOSS are further configured according to the local information. The corresponding relationship of the system acquires routing information, and sends an authentication request message to the corresponding BOSS system.

Step 303: Send the foregoing authentication result information to the information center, and the information center responds to the request message of the sending end according to the foregoing authentication result information.

Wherein, when the information center responds to the sender according to the authentication result information, if the authentication result If the information indicates that the sender has owed a fee, the sender sends a notification message to the sender, indicating that the sender has owed money. If the authentication result information indicates that the sender does not owe the fee, the corresponding message is processed according to the request message of the sender.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the sending end may be a mobile terminal, or may be another application platform. For example, referring to FIG. 4, the sender sends a multimedia message service request message to the MMS center to which the sender user belongs, and after receiving the MMS service request message, the MMS center returns a response message to the sender. The MMS center checks the information of the number of the received MMS service request message, and determines whether there is an identifier of the sender (such as a mobile phone number) in the locally cached gray list. If not, the MMS center The MMS information carried in the MMS service request message is saved, and the receiving end is notified to obtain the MMS information. If yes, the MMS center generates an authentication request message, where the authentication request message includes at least a sender identifier (such as a mobile phone number) and a request command. The code is sent to the arrears control gateway. The arrears control gateway sends an authentication request message to the BOSS system corresponding to the MMS center. The BOSS system queries the sender's balance based on the sender's identity, and after determining whether the sender is in arrears, generates authentication result information according to the judgment result, and sends the authentication result information to the arrears control gateway. The authentication control gateway sends the authentication result information to the corresponding information center. The information center performs corresponding processing according to the indication of the authentication result information. If the authentication result information indicates that the sender has owed a fee, the notification message is sent to the sender, indicating that the sender has owed money, and the multimedia message fails to be sent; if the authentication result The information indicates that the sender does not owe the fee, and the MMS keeps the MMS information carried in the MMS service request message, and notifies the receiving end to obtain the MMS message.

Based on the foregoing technical solution, in the embodiment of the present invention, when receiving the request message of the sending end, the information center queries the local cached gray list to check whether there is the identification information of the sending end carried in the request message, and when it is determined to exist, The sender may be an arrears user, and the information center generates an authentication request message for determining the arrears of the sender for the request message, and sends the message. For the arrears control gateway, the arrears control gateway sends an authentication request message to the corresponding BOSS system, and the BOSS system queries the sender's balance of the caller according to the sender identifier to determine whether the sender is in arrears and generates the authentication result information. And sent to the information center via the arrears control gateway, the information center processes according to the authentication result information, and terminates the current service request of the sender when the authentication result information indicates that the sender has owed money. Therefore, the resources occupied by the arrears users can be released in time, the waste of resources is avoided, and the limited resources can be allocated reasonably. The spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, it is intended that the present invention cover the modifications and variations of the invention as claimed.

Claims

Claim

1. An arrears control system, characterized in that the system comprises:

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the information center receives the sending before the arrears control gateway receives an authentication request message sent by the information center to determine a situation of arrears of the transmitting end. a request message of the terminal, where the request message includes at least the identifier information of the sending end;

The information center queries the local cached graylist list to check whether the identifier information of the sending end exists, and when it is determined that the identifier information of the sending end exists, generates an authentication request message based on the request message of the sending end, and sends the authentication request message to the The arrears control gateway.

The system according to claim 2, wherein the authentication request message includes at least the identification information of the transmitting end and the request instruction code indicating the inquiry of the arrears.

The system according to claim 3, wherein, when the service operation support system generates the authentication result information according to the authentication request message, the service operation support system searches according to the authentication request message. And generating a verification result information according to the credit balance, and transmitting the authentication result information to the arrears control gateway.

The system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein, when the information center responds to the sending end according to the authentication result information, if the authentication result information indicates the If the sending end has owed a fee, the sending end sends a notification message to the sending end, indicating that the sending end has owed a fee;

If the authentication result information indicates that the sending end does not have arrears, the corresponding processing is performed according to the request message of the sending end.

6. An arrears control gateway, wherein the gateway comprises:

a first processing unit, configured to receive an authentication request message sent by the information center to determine a situation of the arrears of the sending end;

The gateway according to claim 6, wherein the information center receives the sending before the first processing unit receives an authentication request message generated by the information center to determine a situation of arrears of the transmitting end. a request message of the terminal, where the request message includes at least the identifier information of the sending end;

Querying, in the locally cached graylist list, whether the identifier information of the sending end exists, and when determining that the identifier information of the sending end exists, generating an authentication request message based on the request message of the sending end, and sending the Control the gateway.

The gateway according to claim 7, wherein the authentication request message received by the first processing unit includes at least the identification information of the transmitting end and the request instruction code indicating the inquiry of the arrears.

9. The gateway according to claim 8, wherein the service operation support system When the authentication result information is generated according to the authentication request message, the service operation support system searches for a credit balance corresponding to the identification information of the sender according to the authentication request message, and generates an authentication according to the credit balance. Result information, and transmitting the authentication result information to the arrears control gateway.

The gateway according to any one of claims 6 to 9, wherein, when the information center responds to the sending end according to the authentication result information, if the authentication result information indicates the If the sending end has owed a fee, the sending end sends a notification message to the sending end, indicating that the sending end has owed a fee;

11. A method of controlling arrears, characterized in that the method comprises:

The arrears control gateway receives an authentication request message sent by the information center to determine the arrears of the sender;

The authentication result information is sent to the information center, and the information center responds to the request message of the sending end according to the authentication result information.

The method according to claim 11, wherein before the arrears control gateway receives the authentication request message generated by the information center to determine the arrears of the sender, the method further includes:

Receiving, by the information center, a request message of the sending end, where the request message includes at least identifier information of the sending end;

Querying, in the locally cached graylist list, whether the identifier information of the sending end exists, and when determining that the identifier information of the sending end exists, generating an authentication request for determining the arrears of the sending end based on the request message of the sending end The message is sent to the arrears control gateway.

The method according to claim 12, wherein the authentication request message includes at least the identification information of the sender and the request instruction code indicating the inquiry of the arrears.

The method according to claim 13, wherein, when the service operation support system generates the authentication result information according to the authentication request message, the method further includes:

The service operation support system searches for a credit balance corresponding to the identification information of the sender according to the authentication request message;

And generating authentication result information according to the credit balance, and transmitting the authentication result information to the arrears control gateway.

The method according to any one of claims 11 to 14, wherein the information center responds to the sending end according to the authentication result information, specifically:

And if the authentication result information indicates that the sending end has owed a fee, sending a notification message to the sending end, prompting the sending end to owe a fee;