Integrated charge system in inter network connection

[Detailed Description of the Invention]

[Outline important point] A telephone network and a packet network are related with the integrated charging system in the network composition by which interconnection is carried out, The telephone exchange machine which connects the fee payment-in-advance terminal of a telephone network for the purpose of transmitting the fee collection information by the side of a packet network in real time to a telephone network subordinate's fee payment-in-advance terminal, Between the packet switches which connect the packet mode terminal of a packet network, In the network in which the contact between nets which transmits and receives a control signal was formed, It has packet amount-of-information data corresponding to the fee collection unit of a telephone network in the above-mentioned packet switch, When the communication data volume under communication with a fee payment-in-advance terminal and a packet mode terminal is measured and the quantity for the fee collection unit is reached, A fee collection count-up indication signal is sent out to the above-mentioned control device between nets, and a telephone exchange machine receives the count-up indication signal, and it constitutes so that a fee count-up signal may be sent out to the fee payment-in-advance terminal by the side of a telephone network in a part for the telephone network side fee collection, and the form to integrate. C Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to the integrated charging system in the network composition to which interconnection of a telephone network and the packet network is carried out. In addition to the fee storage type of the conventional coin type, generally, a card-type public telephone has come to be adopted with development of a public telephone in recent years. The case where connect a data terminal to card type telephone, and it performs data exchange has also increased. At these card type telephone terminals, the fee is prepaid and a card is subtracted by the fee collection signal from a telephone exchange machine. The necessity of carrying out data exchange to the packet mode terminal of a packet exchange network at these card type telephone terminals with expansion of a telephone switching network has also arisen. [Description of the Prior Art] The network composition figure of a telephone network and a packet network is shown in Drawing 4. in a figure -- 1 -- the contact between nets and 4 show a fee payment-in-advance terminal, 5 shows a packet mode terminal, and, as for PAKESO I and a switchboard, and 3, a telephone exchange machine and 2 show a data terminal 6. Telephone exchange machine 1 has the function to charge according to the duration of call of subscription telephone, and distance, and has a function which sends out the control signal of the number count-up of fee collection for every fixed fee collection unit to fee payment-in-advance terminal 4 like a card type public telephone. Whenever fee payment-in-advance terminal 4 receives the number count-up signal of fee collection, it has the function to perform fee subtraction of a card, and storage of a coin. Packet switch 2 has the function to charge in the end of a packet mode terminal according to the amount of information of 5, and has a function which sends out the control signal which integrates fee collection information at the time of ear cutting. Contact 3 between nets has a function which transmits and receives a control signal between telephone exchange machine 1 and packet switch machine 2, and it transmits the control signal according to the fee collection amount of information of packet switch 2 to telephone exchange machine 1. In the network of the above-mentioned composition, the fee collection concerning a telephone network conventionally about the fee collection in the case of Calling(ing) from a telephone network subordinate's terminal 4, and communicating with a Packet l-m subordinate's packet mode terminal 5 via network control unit 3 and a packet network is telephone exchange machine 1, The fee collection about a packet network was only a separation charging system charged with packet switch 2, and an integrated charging system which packet switch 2 passes fee collection information to network control unit 3 as a control signal at the time of Call disconnect, and integrates with a part for the telephone network side fee collection with network control unit 3 or telephone exchange machine 1. [Problem(s) to be Solved by the Invention] In the above-mentioned charging system, when communicating by the fee payment-in-advance method by the card or coin injection, it cannot collect out of the fee to which the fee collection by the side of a packet network was prepaid. Separation fee collection is because it cannot be determined while being transmission of information since the fee collection information by the side of a packet network is not known until A call is cut also in integrated fee collection from the first whether prepay a fee or not. In the above-mentioned case, in order to realize a fee payment-in-advance method, it has the fee collection information Sophisticated one by one which is the real time about both a telephone network and packet m by a telephone network, and it responds to it, and is the number Counting of fee collection to a fee payment-in-advance terminal. It is necessary to send out a A signal. An object of the present invention is to send out this fee collection information. [Means for solving problem] The principle lineblock diagram of the present invention is shown in Drawing 1. in a figure -- 1 -- the contact between nets and 4 show a fee payment-in-advance terminal, 5 shows a packet mode terminal, and, as for a packet switch and 3, a telephone exchange machine and 2 show a data terminal 6. In packet switch machine 2, the amount of information of the packet corresponding to the fee collection unit in a telephone network has however data called [ or ], and when the communication data volume under communication is measured and it becomes the quantity for the fee collection unit, fee collection count-up directions are outputted with a control signal to contact 3 between nets. In contact 3 between nets, if the fee collection count-up directions are received, it sends out to telephone exchange machine 1 for fee collection as fee collection count-up directions on the signal wire in a telephone network. At the time of the fee collection faucet i and rise indication signal reception, telephone exchange machine l for fee collection constitutes so that a fee payment-in-advance signal may be sent out to fee payment-in-advance terminal 4 in a part for the telephone network side fee collection, and the form to integrate. Since the amount of fee collection of both a packet network and a telephone network can be known in real time in telephone exchange ml per hour according to the above-mentioned method and a control signal can be sent to fee payment-in-advance terminal 4 based on the information, in the network connected between nets, a fee payment-in-advance method is realizable. [Function] The flow chart figure of Drawing 2 explains the principle of the present invention. In a figure, a telephone exchange machine and 2 show a packet switch, 3 shows the contact between nets, and I shows a fee payment-in-advance terminal 4. In telephone exchange machine 1, it is confirmed whether telephone network fee collection count-up directions sending-out timer TC is timeout (11). Since the fee collection opportunity of a telephone network and a packet network overlaps and count-up directions may be unable to be continuously issued on account of a circuit and a terminal if sending-out timer TC has not timed out, sending out is waited in that case here (12). If it is sending out OK, packet network fee collection counter PC will confirm from O whether to be size or not (13). From O, if counter PC is size, it will count counter PC 11 (14). A fee collection count-up indication signal is sent out to fee payment-in-advance terminal 4 (15). At fee payment-in-advance terminal 4, it remains, frequency is subtracted 11 and, in the case of a card type telephone, 1 1 Subtraction of the displays of a card is displayed (16). In (11), if telephone network fee collection count-up directions sending-out timer TC is timeout, fee collection count-up directions will be sent out (15). In network control unit 3, data is sent to packet switch 2 on an information transfer way (individual line). In packet-switching [2, it confirms whether to be the data reception from telephone exchange machine 1 (21). If it is data reception, receiving data i will integrate receiving data volume integrated value ■ (22). It is confirmed whether receiving data volume integrated value I is as larger as one telephone network gold content than data volume UC (constant) of a part (23). If integrated value l is size from data volume UC, directions of fee collection count-up will be sent out to network control unit 3 through a signal wire (24). Data NUC is subtracted from receiving data volume integrated value ■, and an integrated value is updated and returned (25). If receiving data volume integrated value I does not reach data volume UC for one unit of telephone networks in (23), it returns to the state of a data reception check (21). Packet network fee collection counter pc of telephone exchange machine 1 is updated +1 by the fee collection count-up indication signal sent out to telephone exchange machine 1 through network control unit 3 with the signal wire from packet switch 2 (26). Although the fee collection count-up signal to fee payment-in-advance terminal 4 was considered in the image sent by an out channel, a signal may be sent out by an in channel, i.e., the channel in data. [Example] The circuit lineblock diagram of the example of the present invention is shown in Drawing 3. As for a telephone switching network and 20, in 10, in a figure, a packet exchange network and 2 are packet switches, 4 -- a data terminal and 7 show a subscriber line switchboard, 8 shows a gateway switchboard, and, as for a packet mode terminal and 6, a fee payment-in-advance terminal and 5 show a packet multiplexer 9 -- D -- individual '! A signal wire and L show a relay line, CC shows a prime controller, and, as for a (information transfer line) and S, C3E shows a common line signal apparatus. Packet switch 2 has data about the fee collection unit of a telephone network, and it has an accounting part which issues fee collection count-up directions, a signal wire which can exchange a control signal between packet multiplexers 9, and a protocol at the time of the data reception of only the quantity equivalent to it. Packet multiplexer 9 is connected by gateway switchboard 8 by the side of telephone switching network 10, individual Line which transmits and receives data, and signal wire S which transmits and receives a control signal. While gateway switchboard 8 and subscriber line switchboard 7 also relay data, they are connected with 'm and vAL by signal wire S which transmits and receives a signal. Subscriber line receiver t*a1 is a form which does not overlap with the fee collection count-up signal to terminal 4 about self-network part fee collection from a signal wire at the time of fee collection count-up signal reception, It has a signal wire interface which can send out a control signal to the accounting part and terminal which send out fee collection faucet I and the amplifier signal to terminal 4 about a packet network. Fee payment-in-advance terminal 4 has a function of subtracting the remaining frequency recorded on the card, or storing one coin from signal wire S at the time of fee collection count-up signal reception. As the 2nd example of the present invention, a control signal is exchanged between packet switch 2, packet multiplexer 9 and packet multiplexer 9, gateway switchboard 8 and gateway switchboard 8, subscriber line switchboard 7 and subscriber line switchboard 7, and fee payment-in-advance terminal 4, Although there is common line signal wire S aside from Line which transmits and receives data, if it is a system does not need to exchange control information in particular by an out channel, and it can transmit [ if even the exchange of control information is possible ] and receive control information by an in channel only by data time 1PAD, it is applicable to the present invention. It is unnecessary, to not carry out line concentration multiplexing, especially concerning packet multiplexer 9 and have a packet assembly function in packet switch 2. [Effect of the Invention] When a packet network subordinate's terminal was conventionally accessed from a telephone network, even though fee collection was separately taken with each net, or it charged it collectively by the telephone network, it registers and appears in a net beforehand, and it accumulates billing data in a certain member correspondence, and had only the method of collecting later. It was impossible to have provided service, when fee payment-in-advance methods, such as a public telephone, were talked over the telephone in a telephone network, and it did not have net user discernment in a packet network in the above-mentioned conventional system and fee collection to net user discernment was not made. According to the present invention, it becomes possible to include a packet network fee into the payment-in-advance fee of a telephone network also in the above-mentioned case, and access of the packet network subordinate terminal from arbitrary users un-specific for both a telephone network and a packet network is attained.

[Brief Description of the Drawings]

The flow chart figure and Drawing 3 where Drawing 1 carries out the detailed description of the invention of the principle lineblock diagram of the present invention and Drawing 2 show the circuit lineblock diagram of the example of the present invention, and the network composition figure of the former [ Drawing / 4 ]. As for a telephone exchange machine and 2, in 1, in a figure, a packet switch and 3 are the contacts between nets, 4 -- a fee payment-in-advance terminal and 5 -- a packet mode terminal and 6 -- a data terminal and 7 -- a gateway switchboard and 9 show a packet multiplexer, 10 shows a telephone switching network, and, as for packet exchange network II~16.21~26, a subscriber line switchboard and 8 show the step number of a flow chart 20.