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1. Service Charging Platform

2. Charging & Rating Engine Modules Quota Manager Counter Type Management Screen Units and Multiplier Destination Matching Criteria Service Level Customer Specific Counter Management Matching Criteria Management
3. Charging & Rating Engine Matching Criteria is a powerful tool that allows to set parameters and rules for matching the counters with input as received from the network Absolute Time Calling Station Framed IP Realm Application Device Others extensible Counter Units Basis Counter Priority Management
4. Charging & Rating Engine Proration Policy Management Sub-Unit Management Reset Interval Enforcement Type Subscription State Customer Destination Management Counter Matching
5. Charging & Rating Engine Counter Instance Management Create Charge Reset Sub-Unit Reset All Quota Transfer Friend & Family Counters
6. Charging & Rating Engine Charging Function Counter Charging Monetary Charging Connection Charges Duration based charging Usage based charging Event based charging Multiple rounding schemes for used units Re-Rating application
7. Charging & Rating Engine Rate Sheet Management Add Rate Sheet Bulk Import Rate Sheet Update Rate Sheet
8. Charging & Rating Engine Rating Function Flat Rates Time varying rates for duration, usage and events Time of Day (Peak / Off-Peak) rates Day of Week (Weekday / Weekend) rates Day of Week / Time of Day Holiday Custom Progressive rates for duration, usage and events
9. Charging & Rating Engine Authorization Function Counter Matching Rate Matching Balance verification Return of total allowed units of Duration, Usage or Events to enforcement point
10. Charging & Rating Engine Online Charging System Multiple Charging Basis Duration Usage Events Multiple simultaneous charging for single session based on Duration and Usage
11. Charging & Rating Engine Reservation of Counter Units or monetary credit Use of single customer balance for multiple concurrent sessions without credit risk Change of tariff and change of counter support Support for Radius or Diameter server Service Denial based on time of day through rating engine
12. Charging & Rating Engine Interim Accounting Function Real-Time charging of session on every interim on multiple basis Duration Usage Functioning with or without unit reservation Detailed sub-records for each session for counter and rating changes
13. Charging & Rating Engine Stop Accounting Function Charging of Counters Charging of Credit Account Refund of unused counter and credit units
14. Charging & Rating Engine Special Numbers Management Emergency Numbers Calls to Emergency numbers succeed in all cases without user authentication or any other type of authorization Assistance Numbers Calls to special numbers like directory assistance numbers succeed after user authentication but without any credit checks Forbidden Numbers A list of numbers and prefixes that are specially forbidden system wide. Over rides any permission that may be available in the rate sheets Hot-lining Numbers
15. Charging & Rating Engine A list of access numbers to which calls are always allowed even for unidentified subscribers and are not charged Free Numbers / URIs A list of numbers / URIs to which calls are allowed for free without charging but only available to identified subscribers Toll Free Numbers A list of incoming numbers with a Rate Adjustment to the standard per minute rate on the call
16. Charging & Rating Engine Charging Policy Management Minimum Chargeable Duration Rounding Intervals Rate Multipliers Default Rates Usage Blocks (MB, GB) Minimum Balance
17. Charging & Rating Engine Reconciliation Lite Reconciliation with secondary CDR sources
18. Charging & Rating Engine Mediation LiteA CDR Mediation application that parses text based CDRs and gives to Charging Applications for Accounting  Administration GUI
19. Charging & Rating Engine Business Use Cases Bundled Quotas Bundled Quotas allow a Service Provider to offer some usage of a Service included in the Subscription Charges which are deducted periodically http://x.co/kbbqu
20. Charging & Rating Engine Business Use Cases Fair-Usage Policies Fair-Usage Policies allow a Service Provider to define limits of usage that a Customer can make after which the Fair-Usage policies start applying. Typical options for Fair-Usage policies are to throttle bandwidth, deny service or start charging http://x.co/kbfairu
21. Charging & Rating Engine Business Use Cases Sub-Interval Restrictions Sub-Units are a way to define usage limits at a frequency higher than the total subscription cycle http://x.co/ucsub
22. Charging & Rating Engine Business Use Cases Progressive Rates Progressive Rates are used in charging to offer such rates that are progressively changing relative to some criteria. Different such criteria are supported. http://x.co/ucprog Bill Shock Prevention
23. Charging & Rating Engine Business Use Cases Bill Shock Prevention
24. Charging & Rating Engine Charging Counter Charging Counters for specific destinations Counters for specific time slots Fair-usage thresholds for counters Higher frequency sub-units like daily or weekly limits within a monthly counter Friend n Family and other user specific counters Work flows for arbitrary business logic to allow setting such counters Interface with subscriber self-serve
25. Charging & Rating Engine Monetary Charging Connection Charges Duration based charging Usage based charging Event based charging Multiple rounding schemes for used units Re-Rating application
26. Charging & Rating Engine Rating Time varying rates for duration, usage and events Progressive rates for duration, usage and events Hooks for arbitrary rating schemes Rating Classes Hooks for arbitrary rules definition for rating classes
27. Charging & Rating Engine Prefix Matching for counters or rating Longest Prefix matching Exact Prefix matching Substring matching Start string matching Others definable through hooks
28. Charging & Rating Engine Authorization Application Counter Matching Rate Matching Balance verification Return of total allowed units of Duration, Usage or Events to enforcement point
29. Charging & Rating Engine Unit Reservation or Online Charging (OCS) Application Multiple Charging Basis Duration Usage Events Multiple simultaneous charging for single session based on Duration and Usage Reservation of Counter Units or monetary credit Use of single customer balance for multiple concurrent sessions without credit risk Change of tarriff and change of counter support Support for Radius or Diameter server Service Denial based on time of day through rating engine
30. Charging & Rating Engine Interim Accounting Application Real-Time charging of session on every interim on multiple basis Duration Usage Functioning with or without unit reservation Detailed sub-records for each session for counter and rating changes
31. Charging & Rating Engine Stop Accounting Application Refund of unused counter and credit units
32. Charging & Rating Engine Revenue Assurance Reconciliation with secondary CDR sources
33. Charging & Rating Engine Credit Control Real-Time interface to account balance management Real-Time interface to taxation Comprehensive alerting