Patent ID: 8606224

Claim:
A method for delivering service related preemptive advice of charge, said method comprising: generating pre-emptive advice of charge messages; selecting terminals from a plurality of terminals for delivering said pre-emptive advice of charge messages using rules; controlling content, conditions for applicability and conditions for delivery of said pre-emptive advice of charge messages with said rules; and sending from a designated node or group of nodes, said pre-emptive advice of charge messages to said selected terminals, wherein selecting said terminals comprises: pre-scanning at least some of said plurality of terminals for verifying applicability of said rules, said pre-scanning being limited to those of said plurality of terminals for which administrative information changes, and said pre-scanning being performed upon changing of said administrative information; after said pre-scanning, activating terminal-rule identifier combinations related to terminal and rule combinations for which said rules apply to said terminals for which administrative information has changed; and from the terminals for which a terminal-rule identifier combination is activated, selecting terminals for which trigger information associated with each terminal meets trigger conditions; and determining a moment, based on said trigger conditions and trigger information, for performing said sending said pre-emptive advice messages to said selected terminals; wherein said rules comprise select conditions, and the trigger conditions for generating said preemptive advice of charge messages, wherein said select conditions comprise preconditions for performing said pre-scanning.