Category: (2) TAM Application Type
Application Identifier: 5.20.1
Maturity Level: 4
Billing
Event Processing includes collection, guiding, distribution, mediation,
enrichment, analysis, summarization, and correlation of billing event
records. These functions are
required to support both file and event based processing.
Billing
events may originate from many sources.
A primary source of billing events is the Usage Management function. The Usage Management function will
provide information produced by various network elements to Billing Event
Processing. Events produced in the
Usage Management function may be used as:
1.
Measurements for calculating the charge of purchased products offerings where the
price is a usage price type. The events may report measurements expressed in
various units (bandwidth, duration, quantity, message vs. measured, etc.).
2. Purchase indicators that indicates to Billing that a product offering has been “ordered” by a customer
Other
sources of billing event records are:
Events
to be rated are distributed to the appropriate rating system. Once rated, the events are returned from
Rating to Billing Events Management and from there distributed to Bill
Calculation. Rated events may be used by Balance Management to affect a
balance.
Billing
Event Processing includes:
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