[Serusers] how does a b2bua help billing

[Shaikat Mahmud]

I have used Asterisk as B2bua. I have written an application to communicate
with 3rd party billing software using Radius Client, Alepo RBS. In asterisk
when any caller is willing to initiate a call, you can set a hang up time
for that caller's channel. I have set the time when callee answered the
Invite of asterisk. When asterisk does any RTP relay or other stuffs on that
channel, then it checks when to hang up. It takes the current time from the
system, compares it with Hang Up time. When Asterisk sees that time is over,
it initiates the Protocol wise disconnect procedure.

Shaikat Mahmud

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From: serusers-bounces at iptel.org [mailto:serusers-bounces at lists.iptel.org] On
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Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 4:54 AM
To: serusers at lists.iptel.org
Subject: [Serusers] how does a b2bua help billing


Hi

I am curious as to how a b2bua does the billing side of things, I know it
sits in the middle and the media goes through it, but how does it keep
count of how long the session has been open for, does it keep a
continously running count of time after a INVITE or use some other
non-evasive method.

If it keeps a continous count (I presume in memory), how does is initiate
a disconnect, does it compare the time used with that left (which is
determined at call start)

Any links , pointers,

Iqbal

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