摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for optimizing charging and billing of the use of resources in an administrative communication network. SOLUTION: A processing device D, for a network equipment element RP of a communication network equipped with an accounting and billing management module, includes processing means MT which are tasked, firstly, to determine, from values representing selected local parameters of their equipment element RP and/or selected traffic streams received by this equipment element RP, associated with the identifier of a customer in the network, usage data concerning the resources of the network corresponding to said customer identifier, and secondly, task transmitted these usage data, and the identifier associated with them, to the charging and billing management module for a possible billing of the customer designated by this identifier is imposed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |