Patent ID: 7860483

Claim:
A method for implementing a Policy and Charging Control (PCC), comprising: acquiring, by a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF), user location acquisition ability information carried in a Credit-Control-Request (CCR) message sent by a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF), wherein the user location acquisition ability information denotes that the PCEF does not have the ability of acquiring user location information; and determining, by the PCRF, a PCC rule of a user according to the user location acquisition ability information, wherein the PCC rule determined according to the user location acquisition ability information is for the PCEF to perform a corresponding PCC, wherein the location acquisition ability information carried in the CCR message sent by the PCEF comprises: a user location information attribute value pair whose attribute values are specific values denoting that the PCEF does not have the ability of acquiring corresponding user location information.