Patent ID: 8204190

Claim:
An apparatus for integrated billing management in a wired/wireless integrated service network, comprising: billing information pre-processing means for analyzing billing processing request information received from a user terminal through a network access device, transmitting the received billing processing request information to a session information processing means and a billing information processing means, receiving a processing result from the session information processing means and the billing information processing means, and transmitting the processing result to the network access device; first session information processing means for receiving billing processing request information from the billing information pre-processing means, and performing a real-time session management function and a session overlapping management function based on type of the received billing processing request information in order to perform billing processing per a user without being duplicated; first billing information processing means for performing a billing process based on session information stored in a DB processing means for billing processing request information received from the billing information preprocessing means; and DB processing means for organizing databases with registration information, billing information, session information and management information and managing the organized databases by cooperating with the billing information pre-processing means, the session information processing means and the billing information processing means; wherein the first billing information processing means classifies data according to service-charge plans, and generates formulaic billing data, based on the session information and the billing information.