Patent ID: 7761084
Filing Date: 2010-07-20
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A billing mediation system for use within a communications network that correlates session records pertaining to usage of network resources, wherein a record producer generates one or more session records during a session by a user, comprising: a record correlator that receives and correlates session records, wherein each received session record has a unique identifier and an indication whether the received session record was the first or last record in a session; a look ahead cache coupled to the record correlator that caches unique session identifiers for session records and a timestamp for each session identifier that indicates when the most recent record for that session was received; a set of buffers coupled to the record correlator that store session records, wherein the buffers comprise: a session records database that stores correlated session records that are received from the set of buffers.