| ASCII |
| American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
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| BCD |
| Binary Coded Decimal |
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| CDR |
| Charging Data Record |
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| CGLIB |
| Code Generation Library |
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| CIDR |
| Classless Inter-Domain Routing |
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| ERE |
| Ericsson Rule Engine - a framework for building a rule engine |
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| Field |
| Defines an identifier and the form of a piece of data. Configured in the service |
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| GUI |
| Graphical User Interface |
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| Internal ERE |
| An ERE server instance that is running on the local machine, used for testing purpose |
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| IP |
| Internet Protocol |
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| JAR |
| Java ARchive |
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| JDBC |
| Java Database Connectivity |
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| MDU |
| Multi Data Update, an ERE tool that allows data in selection trees to be updated easily. |
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| MMS |
| Multimedia Messaging Service |
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| Modifier |
| A element of the selection tree in which data is evaluated or modified. |
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| MSISDN |
| Mobile Station Integrated Services Network Number |
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| Node |
| A container of other selection tree elements that can add on behavior for the contained elements |
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| Plugin |
| See selection tree element |
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| Rating Period |
| Specifies a start time and name for one selection tree |
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| Rating Plan |
| Rating period container with a specified service |
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| RMA |
| Rating Management Application - The GUI used for configuring ERE |
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| SDD Tool |
| Selection Tree Difference Detection Tool |
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| SDF |
| Service Defined Field |
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| Selection Tree |
| Configuration rules, built of selection tree elements |
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| Selection tree element |
| A building block, for example a condition or modifier. Defined in the service and used in the selection tree |
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| Service |
| Contains definitions of data and selection tree elements |
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| Service Provider |
| Rating plan container |
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| SMS |
| Short Message Service |
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| Structure |
| Forms the root of a selection tree and can add on behavior for the whole tree |
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| TDF |
| Tree Defined Field - a definition of data, where the definition is done in a selection tree. |
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| XML |
| Extensible Markup Language |