Alcatel-Lucent USA Assigned Patent

Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ, has been assigned a patent (9,491,311) developed by Sharma, Ranjan, New Albany, OH, for a “modular offline charging system that stores accounting data in data segments of a storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods for offline charging. An Offline Charging System, (OFCS) includes a data storage system partitioned into a plurality of data segments, a plurality of Input/Output, (I/O) devices configured to communicate with the data storage system, and a plurality of charging function devices configured to communicate with the data storage system. An I/O device receives an accounting record for an accounting session, selects a data segment of the data storage system for the accounting session, and stores the accounting record for the accounting session in the data segment. A charging function device retrieves a copy of the accounting record for the accounting session from the data segment, and processes the copy of the accounting record to generate a CDR for the accounting session.“

The patent application was filed on June 23, 2015 (14/748,085).