About Implementation of OOB OCMC-BRM Integration (Doc ID 1580756.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 07, 2024

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Goal

A business offers 3 different services to their mobile subscribers: telephony, Short Message Service (SMS), and data.

With these 3 services, mobile subscribers can perform 6 different types of usage which have different rating rules:
1.  With the telephony service:
     - Voice calls rated on duration
     - Voice mail to text rated on occurrence
2.  With the SMS service:
     - SMS rated on occurrence
3.  With the data service:
     - Data usage rated on volume
     - Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) rated on occurrence
     - Content purchase rated according to the content price

As rating is event driven in Billing and Revenue Management (BRM), the usual way to rate these different usage types with different rating rules is to have a specific event type for each usage type. However, in the implementation of out of box (OOB) OCMC-BRM integration, the Oracle Communications Online Mediation Controller (OCMC) always send "gsm" in the PIN_FLD_OBJ_TYPE field of the authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) requests to BRM whatever is the usage type. This means that on BRM, any usage type would be rated using the "/event/session/telco/gsm" event type.

In this condition, the business cannot use the service to differentiate the usage types because several usage types share the same service.
How BRM is supposed to rate the different usage types differently since they all share the same "/event/session/telco/gsm" event type?
How an OOB implementation of the OCMC-BRM integration is supposed to work to support such business?

 

Solution

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