Patent ID: 11937150
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A charging function of a communication network, comprising:
at least one processor; and
and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, configure the charging function to:
detect that available credit in a credit account of a subscriber of the communication network has reached or fallen below a credit threshold when the subscriber has multiple ongoing communication services consuming credit from the credit account;
send a threshold notification of the reached or fallen below credit threshold to a user equipment (UE) on which the subscriber has at least one of the multiple ongoing communication services;
determine if a response to the threshold notification has been received from the UE with prioritization of one of the multiple ongoing communication services;
based on a determination that a response with prioritization of one communication service has been received, initiate termination of all ongoing communication services except the prioritized communication service;
based on a determination that a response with prioritization of one communication service has not been received, determine if information indicating a predefined prioritized communication service is available; and
based on a determination that information indicating the predefined prioritized communication service is available, initiate termination of all ongoing communication services except the predefined prioritized communication service; and
provide all available credit in the credit account to be available for the prioritized communication service or the predefined prioritized communication service.