Patent ID: 8611852

Claim:
A method for providing advice of promotion in a service delivery environment, the method comprising: receiving a request to render a service from a subscriber using a device; identifying the subscriber by determining whether the subscriber is permitted to access the service and using a rating engine to determine a charge rate for the request based on a rate plan associated with the subscriber, wherein the rating engine includes a runtime rating model that takes as parameters a type, a quantity, a time and a location of the request; invoking the rating engine to identify a promotion by varying each and a different combination of said parameters of the runtime rating model, to generate a plurality of additional charge rates, identifying, from the plurality of additional charge rates, at least one charge rate which is different from the charge rate initially determined for the request; and transmitting the promotion including the at least one charge rate and the one or more varied parameters associated therewith to the subscriber in a response to the request, before the service is rendered.