Real-time notification of toll-free data service usage

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9924339-B2
Application number	US-201615225313-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 1, 2016
Priority date	Aug 1, 2016
Publication date	Mar 20, 2018
Grant date	Mar 20, 2018

Abstract

A device may receive first information. The first information may be based on traffic associated with usage of a toll-free data service. The device may receive an identifier for a user device. The user device may be using the toll-free data service. The device may generate second information. The second information may correspond to usage, by the user device, of the toll-free data service. The second information may be generated based on the first information and the identifier. The device may send the second information to another device to support providing a notification of toll-free data service usage. The notification of toll-free data service usage may be based on the second information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A device, comprising:
on or more memories; and
one or more processors, communicatively coupled to the one or more memories to:
receive traffic information,
the traffic information being based on traffic associated with usage of a toll-free data service,
the traffic information including a plurality of records, each of the plurality of records including a second identifier;
receive a first identifier for a user device, the user device using the toll-free data service;
filter the plurality of records to create filtered traffic information, the plurality of records being filtered based on comparing the second identifier, for each of the plurality of records, and the first identifier: generate usage information,
the usage information corresponding to usage, by the user device, of the toll-free data service, and
the usage information being generated based on the filtered traffic information;

first information and the identifier; and
send the usage information to another device to support providing a notification of the toll-free data service usage to the user device,
the notification of the toll-free data service usage being based on the usage information.

2. The device of claim 1 , where the one or more processors, when generating the usage information, are to:
generate the usage information by aggregating the plurality of records.

3. The device of claim 1 , where the usage information includes byte count information for the usage, by the user device, of the toll-free data service.

4. The device of claim 1 , where the one or more processors, when sending the usage information to the other device, are to:
send the usage information to the other device while the user device is using the toll-free data service.

5. The device of claim 1 , where the one or more processors, when receiving the traffic information, are to:
receive the traffic information while the user device is using the toll-free data service.

6. The device of claim 1 , where the one or more processors, when receiving the traffic information, are to:
receive the traffic information while the user device is using the toll-free data service; and
where the one or more processors, when sending the usage information to the other device, are to:
send the usage information to the other device within a threshold time period after the user device has used the toll-free data service.

7. The device of claim 1 , where the first identifier for the user device is based on the user device being registered for the notification of toll-free data service usage.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:
one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
receive a first device identifier for a user device, the user device receiving traffic via a toll-free data service;
receive traffic information, the traffic information being associated with usage of the toll-free data service, the traffic information including a plurality of records, each of the plurality of records including a second device identifier;
filter the plurality of records to create filtered traffic information, the plurality of records being filtered based on comparing the second device identifier, for each of the plurality of records, and the first device identifier;
generate, for the user device, usage information based on the filtered traffic information and the usage information corresponding to usage, by the user device, of the toll-free data service; and
send the usage information to a notification device to support providing a notification of the toll-free data service usage to the user device,
the notification of the toll-free data service usage being based on the usage information.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8 , where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to receive the traffic information, cause the one or more processors to:
receive the traffic information while the user device is receiving the traffic via the toll-free data service.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8 , where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to send the usage information to the notification device, cause the one or more processors to:
send the usage information to the notification device within a threshold time period after the user device has received the traffic via the toll-free data service.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8 , where the one or more instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the one or more processors to:
aggregate the plurality of records to create aggregated traffic information before generating the usage information; and
where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to generate the usage information, cause the one or more processors to:
generate the usage information based on the aggregated traffic information.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8 ,
where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to generate the usage information, cause the one or more processors to:
generate the usage information based on aggregating the filtered traffic information.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8 , where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to receive the first device identifier for the user device, cause the one or more processors to:
receive the first device identifier for the user device based on the user device being registered for the notification of the toll-free data service usage.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8 , where the usage information includes byte count information for the usage, by the user device, of the toll-free data service.

15. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a device, traffic information, the traffic information being received based on a user device accessing content via a toll-free data service, the traffic information including a plurality of records, each of the plurality of records including a second identifier, and the first information being associated with usage of the toll-free data service;
receiving, by the device, a first identifier for the user device;
filtering, by the device, the plurality of records to create filtered traffic information, the plurality of records being filtered based on comparing the second identifier, for each of the plurality of records, and the first identifier;
generating, by the device and for the user device, usage information,
the usage information corresponding to usage of the toll-free data service by the user device, and
the usage information being generated based on the filtered traffic information; and
sending, by the device, the usage information to another device to support providing a notification of the toll-free data service usage to the user device,
the notification of the toll-free data service usage including the usage information.

16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:
aggregating the filtered traffic information to create aggregated traffic information before generating the usage information; and
where generating the usage information comprises:
generating the usage information based on the aggregated traffic information.

17. The method of claim 15 , where receiving the first identifier for the user device comprises:
receiving the first identifier for the user d

Assignees

• Verizon Patent & Licensing Inc

Inventors

• Bongu Huma Shankar Rao Fnu
• Huang Jian
• Kelly Susan
• Zhang Gong
• Dey Sayan
• AKMAL Mohammad Zohaib
• Chen Guanrao

Classifications

• H04M15/8353

  during the communication · CPC title

• H04M15/8355

  after the end of the communication · CPC title

• H04W4/26 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M15/09

  Third party charged communications · CPC title

• H04M15/8214

  Data or packet based · CPC title