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

Claim 0:
1. A method performed by a charging function of a communication network for handling communication services for a subscriber of the communication network, the method comprising:
detecting that available credit in a credit account of the subscriber has reached or fallen below a credit threshold when the subscriber has multiple ongoing communication services consuming credit from the credit account;
sending 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;
determining 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 determining that a response with prioritization of one communication service has been received, initiating termination of all ongoing communication services except the prioritized communication service;
based on determining that a response with prioritization of one communication service has not been received, determining if information indicating a predefined prioritized communication service is available;
based on determining that information indicating the predefined prioritized communication service is available, initiating termination of all ongoing communication services except the predefined prioritized communication service; and
providing all available credit in the credit account to be available for the prioritized communication service or the predefined prioritized communication service.