GATEWAY DEVICE, A RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, A CHARGING CONTROL METHOD, A DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND A LONG-TERM COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM Russian patent published in 2020 - IPC H04W4/24 

FIELD: communication equipment.

SUBSTANCE: invention can be used to provide a gateway device that performs charging control in accordance with a RAT used by the UE, even when the UE performs communication using different RATs at the same time. To this end, the gateway device includes a control unit configured to, when communication terminal generates communication aggregation by performing first radio communication using first radio access technology and second radio communication using second radio access technology, control at least one bearer channel assigned to communication terminal in association with information indicating first and second radio access technologies, and a charging system communication unit configured to transmit information indicating first and second radio access technologies to at least one policy control and charging device that performs charging control.

EFFECT: technical result is improved quality of communication.

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