Systems and methods for avoiding double accounting upon session failover

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9883052
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15192924

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Systems, methods, and software that perform offline charging. One embodiment comprises a Charging Data Function (CDF) of an Offline Charging System (OFCS). The CDF receives accounting requests for a session from a Charging Trigger Function (CTF), and generates an incomplete Charging Data Record (CDR) for the session based on the accounting requests. The CDF identifies request identifiers (ID) assigned to the accounting requests used to generate the first incomplete CDR, and inserts the request IDs in the incomplete CDR. The CDF determines whether one or more of the accounting requests used to generate the incomplete CDR were indicated as a re-transmitted accounting request by the CTF, and inserts content information for the re-transmitted accounting request(s) in the incomplete CDR.

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  • ALCATEL-LUCENT USA INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Cai, Yigang Naperville, US 335 6493
Sharma, Ranjan New Albany, US 110 1753

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