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Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a charging method and apparatus for machine-to-machine communications. The method includes: receiving a resource access request, where the resource access request includes a destination identifier; determining the current resource access is a charging event; sending the resource access request to a main service capability layer according to the destination identifier; receiving a resource access response, and determining charging data for the current resource access; and sending the charging data to a charging server. According to the embodiments of the present invention, the M2M service capability layer determines the charging data according to the resource access request, and sends the charging data to the charging server for charging the request initiator, thereby addressing a charging problem that arises when the request initiator uses the underlying network in a case in which the request initiator does not subscribe to the underlying network.

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First Claim