Patent ID: 9560216
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for performing roaming traffic charging for a user equipment, wherein the method comprises: receiving, in a network element of a home network, a roaming traffic charging request about the user equipment, wherein the user equipment roams to a visited network, the roaming traffic charging request includes roaming traffic-related information of the user equipment; if the roaming traffic-related information satisfies a first charging condition, forwarding, by the network element of the home network, the roaming traffic charging request to an OCS of an alternative roaming provider corresponding to the user equipment so as to perform the roaming traffic charging for the user equipment, wherein the alternative roaming provider corresponds to a home network of the user equipment, wherein the forwarding comprises: if the roaming traffic-related information satisfies the first charging condition, performing match query in an address information base, to determine address information of the OCS of the alternative roaming provider corresponding to the user equipment; forwarding the roaming traffic charging request to the OCS of the alternative roaming provider based on the address information, so as to perform the roaming traffic charging for the user equipment, wherein the alternative roaming provider corresponds to the home network of the user equipment.