The document discusses Datamatics' content billing solution for content providers. It describes several business models for content delivery and monetization, including reselling content, acting as a third party, transporting content, and revenue sharing. It also outlines the possible IT landscape involving a content delivery platform, billing functions, and payment partners. Finally, it discusses some key challenges around calculating billing based on different metrics, compensations, batch vs real-time processing, and generating invoices and settlements.
2. Business Model - Reselling
Service Delivery
Operator Cash Flow
Agreement
Content/
Interconnec Customer
t
Partner
3. Business Model - 3rd Party
Service Delivery
Operator Cash Flow
Agreement
Content
Partner Customer
4. Business Model - Transport
Service Delivery
Operator Cash Flow
Agreement
Content
Partner Customer
5. Business Model - Wholesale
Service Delivery
Operator Cash Flow
Agreement
Wholesale
Partner /
Service Customer
Provider
6. Business Model - Revenue Sharing for Content Service
Product Delivery
Collecting Cash Flow
Society
Preliminary
Products
Video Clip
Creator Operator
Product
Customer
Aggregator
Additional
Information
8. Possible IT Landscape
Content Delivery
Platform
PHP
Billing Invoice
Functions
Accounts
Payment
Receivables
Apache Partner
Web Server
Master/Tariff
Billing &
Settlement
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9. Content Billing - Challenges
• Different Calculation Basis
– data volume
– time duration
– items
• Compensations (Download of content without
charging the traffic)
• Batch processing and real-time capabilities
• End Customer Invoice and Partner Settlement based
on the same input
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10. Different Calculation Basis by Configurable Service Matching
• Services are used identify charging records
• Multiple Services can be used in parallel
• Service Configuration defines the expected type of data in
charging records in a matrix
• Several Comparison methods are supported
Service
Sample definition of four
services Data-High
Data WLAN Video
Speed
Service Type Data Data Data Video
Bandwidth High Speed Normal - -
CDR Fields
Access point - - Partner 1 -
URL - - - www.dreamworksstudios.com
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11. Compensations by Cross Products
• Download of Content generates charging records for
data usage which would normally charged
• Cross Products can be used to generate depending
on the number of downloads free quantities
• Free quantities will be settled against the actual
usage
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12. Batch Processing and Real-time Capabilities
• Charging Records will be processed depending on
the service
• Content of charging records is configurable
• Charging records can be used for more than one
customer/partner
• JAVA API and WebService Interface available for
– Query of account balance
– Create chargeable items
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15. xDR Data Flow
Re-Rating
xDRs
Billing
XDR. Aggregation
Rating EVENT Pre-
Pre- of prebills
- Customer Billing per invoice BILL.
Standard - Zoning Aggregatio BILL. period. BILL
xDRs - Time n of priced PREBILL Addition of
Zone xDRs on a non CDR
- Rating XDR.EVEN daily basis based fees
T etc. XML
Rejected DUPLICAT Invoices
E
xDRs
Mapping
Tables CISS.
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