Charging Validation for Third Party Value-Added Applications in Service Delivery Platform
Lina Ren, Yun Zhang Pei, Yibo Zhang, Chun Ying · 2006
With the gradual adoption of Parlay and Parlay-X technologies in telecom industry, many third party value-added applications have been developed and deployed in telecom network. Usually third party service providers utilize telecom operator's charging and billing infrastructure to bill service users. Despite the lack of trust between operators and third party service providers, little has been done regarding management of third party application charging in operator domain. In this paper, we present an idea of charging validation in service delivery platform to ensure correct execution and charging of complex third party value-added applications by checking service charging records. Charging template and service process model are used to achieve automatic validation.