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Billing Support
Comwave Mobile Internet Portal Solution can identify various methods to
ways to charge for content and applications on a Mobile Internet Portal
1.
per event (user clicked/accessed the content/application
ie. Downloaded a ringtone);
2.
per volume (the number of bytes the user received from
the application ie. Size of MP3 files);
3.
duration (the time that was needed to transfer content
from the application to the user ie. download time = 30 sec);
4.
content-type (what content did the user access ie.
binary, html, streaming media);
5.
time-period (when did the user access the application
ie. during peak-hours);
6.
usage of specific service enabelers (ie. usage of
location based services or a SMS-service);
7.
source of the content (who provided the content ie. 3rd
party content provider, internal application);
8.
type of subscription (has the user a silver, gold or
platinum membership);
9.
Access method (what access medium is used to access the
portal GPRS, WAP, Internet, TV).
Multi-access-Portals
offers a new opportunity to develop a business model with a mix of charging
methods to create profitable revenue-streams from the offered
services. With services on the
Mobile Internet Portal infrastructure, a mix of the charging methods can be
applied. Applications on the portal
infrastructure can create charging record logs that would be provided to
Service Data Records (SDR) Gateway in SML format if preferred, thus
offering a choice of charging various methods.
The existing services
are migrated and made available from the portal; therefore they do not have
to create Charging Data Records (CDR) through the portal. Existing services will continue to
generate CDR as before.
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