Patent ID: 11924366
Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 2:
3. A method of a home session management entity of a home public land mobile network in a roaming charging related scenario between a visited public land mobile network and said home public land mobile network, the method comprising:
receiving, from a visited session management entity of said visited public land mobile network, a session creation request message, said session creation request message including information indicative of a first configuration utilized for mobile network related charging;
discovering a charging entity of said home public land mobile network;
transmitting a charging initiation request message to said charging entity of said home public land mobile network, said charging initiation request message including said information indicative of said first configuration utilized for mobile network related charging for generation of partial charging data records in said home public land mobile network;
receiving a charging initiation response message from said charging entity of said home public land mobile network, said charging initiation response message being indicative of success of said generation of said partial charging data records in said home public land mobile network and including information indicative of a second configuration utilized for mobile network related charging; and
transmitting, to said visited session management entity of said visited public land mobile network, a session creation response message, said session creation response message including said information indicative of said second configuration utilized for mobile network related charging, wherein
in relation to said discovering, said method further comprises:
transmitting, to a repository entity of said home public land mobile network, a discovery request message indicative of a predetermined charging functionality; and
receiving, from said repository entity of said home public land mobile network, a discovery response message indicative of said charging entity of said home public land mobile network, said charging entity of said home public land mobile network providing said predetermined charging functionality.