Patent ID: 7747242
Filing Date: 2010-06-29
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication system comprising a base station which performs communication with a mobile terminal, a packet control function apparatus which performs communication with the base station by a Radio Access Network (RAN) protocol, a node apparatus which performs communication with the packet control function apparatus by a Radio Access Network (RAN) protocol, and an accounting server which is connected to this node apparatus via a network, the wireless communication system exchanging a message via a wireless network between said base station and said mobile terminal to establish said connection with said granted communication quality wherein a connection is made with the mobile terminal with a granted communication quality, and accounting is performed corresponding to the quality of said communication with the mobile terminal, wherein: at least one of said base station, packet control function apparatus and node apparatus which performs communication by said Radio Access Network (RAN) protocol, measures the communication quality supplied to the mobile terminal based on said Radio Access Network (RAN) protocol, notifies said measured communication quality to said accounting server only when said measured communication quality is different from the communication quality being charged in the accounting system at that time, and the accounting server performs account processing using said notified communication quality.