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.

1. Datamatics Content
Billing
Solution for Content Providers

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

7. Billing as a Service

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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13. End Customer Invoice and Partner Settlement
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14. C.I.S.S. Components

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.

16. Rating Processing Channels

17. Guiding and Rating Principles

18. Kontakt in Deutschland / D-A-CH Region
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