公开(公告)号：US11468425B1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-11

申请号：US16834133

申请日：2020-03-30

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Om Prakash Suthar ,  Santhosh Shenoy Panambur ,  Raghavendra Vidyashankar Suryanarayanarao ,  Tae Ryoung Hur

IPC: G06Q20/32 ,  G06Q20/24 ,  H04M15/00 ,  H04L12/14 ,  H04W8/20 ,  H04W88/16

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.