摘要 |
<p>In a process and system to determine use charges billed from the user of a telecommunication network, the use charge billed for a connection is determined before said connection is established from statistical properties of earlier connections established by the user. Use charges are preferably determined on the basis of a dynamic client profile stored in a first storage zone and derived from one or several random variables of earlier connections established by the user of the digital telecommunication network. When new connections are established by the user, the stored client profile is dynamically derived again. In a simple variant, the client profile contains a value proportional to the average price per connection or average connection time for the user. In a preferred embodiment, however, the client profile also contains multidimensional functions of random variables of earlier connections established by the user of the digital telecommunication network. The random variables used for deriving the client profile include, for example, connection time, day time, week day and/or geographical properties of earlier connections. Use charges are preferably also dependent on a statistically obtained system load. The advantage of the system is that use charges can be billed from a prepaid system even before the connection has been established.</p> |