Operating system supporting cost aware applications

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8971841-B2
Application number	US-97223010-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 17, 2010
Priority date	Dec 17, 2010
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

A mobile computing device that supports cost-aware application components for operation over a metered network. A current basis for computing usage charges over one or more networks may be made available to the cost-aware application components through an application programming interface supported by an operating system service. That service may receive a policy for charging for data usage over a network and may also obtain information defining data usage for the mobile computing device. Based on this information, the service may determine a current basis for charging for data usage. With this information, the application component can determine a manner for executing network operations that involve data transmission over the network, such as deferring the operation or selecting an alternative network.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
for each network of at least one network, receiving information defining a policy for charging for data usage;
for each network, determining data usage on the each network;
determining, by a computing device for an identified network based on the policy and data usage, a current basis for usage charges on the identified network; and
providing, to a user mode component executing on the computing device, current network information c…

Assignees

• Menezes Pascal
• Piumatti Marco
• Parks Upshur W
• Rao Ravi
• Microsoft Corp

Inventors

• Menezes Pascal
• Piumatti Marco
• Parks Upshur W
• Rao Ravi

Classifications

• H04M15/8016

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L12/1485

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W48/02

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M15/886

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M15/885

  Electricity · mapped topic