Re: [RFC] MT billing logic layer

fredag 13. februar 2004, 03:20, skrev Phuah Yee Keat:
> Err... I have got something to say over here...
> Should this be a telco problem? or a protocol module problem?
>
> For the CPA that I was talking about, it have some sense of
> transaction for long messages. The difference with this transaction
> thing with the UDH is that if we utilize the UDH data to do
> multiple messages, the client will get charged 3 times. While if we
> utilize the transaction in the CPA itself, the client will only get
> charged one time per transaction.

Does that mean you do the billing transaction outside of Kannel, with 
SOAP, http calls or somethoing else?

> I guess this actually is what is the final aim, although the
> discussion started with having binfo just for the first message so
> that the subsequence messages in the transaction would not be
> charged.
>
> But having binfofirst=1|2|3 does not help in my case. How CPA wants
> it is that the billing info is in all the messages, but that each
> message will have the following information
> transaction_id = same for all the messages in the transaction
> max_content = same with UDH
> content_sequence = same with UDH

What protocol is this?

> So, the Telco will be clever enough to figure out that the 3
> messages are in the same transaction, and will only charge it once.

It can get all this info from the UDH.

> Currently, my CPA implementation, extract the information from the
> UDH, and use it. Since kannel splitting config seems to be global
> across all the other smsc configurations, and my other telcos
> configuration needs the splitting.
>
> Hmmm... my conclusion is... this guy is trying to accomplish the
> same thing that I want to accomplish, but having the new config
> param binfofirst=1|2|3 does not help in my CPA module. Any better
> way of doing this??

I am not really sure I understand what you want to do.  The data you 
want is all in the UDH, and Kannel should probably not extend a 
protocol with something that is not in a protocols specification.

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