COMMUNICATION NETWORK SPECIFIC CHARGING METHOD AND COMMUNICATION NETWORK SPECIFIC CHARGING APPARATUS

摘要

COMMUNICATION NETWORK SPECIFIC CHARGING METHOD ANDCOMMUNICATION NETWORK SPECIFIC CHARGING APPARATUSABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURETo charge surely depending on data transmitted through aTCP/IP communication network or the like with a simpleconfiguration. In charging method for data transmission in a communication network in which a plurality of positions are connected to each other through a wide area network, sub networks being connected to the respective positions through LANs, and sending of data from terminal stations in the sub networks or receiving of data in the terminal stations being performed, sampling measurements of transmission states of originated data in the LANs and transmission states of incoming data in the LANs are performed in the LAMS connected to respective positions, the data of the transmission states subjected to the sampling measurement being periodically transmitted to a predetermined center connected to the communication network, and an amount of charging to each sub network being decided on the basis of the data of the transmission states transmitted to the center.Figure 1