System, process, and device for multiple network usage tracking
AssigneeTracFone Wireless, Inc.
InventorsKaren Levine, Mansi Srivastava, Carmen Pina, Sonia Guell, Miguel Fernandez, James Zimmerman
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Abstract
A system for multiple network usage tracking, the system having a policy management platform having one or more processors able to receive and to calculate account usage data associated with an account profile, the policy management platform arranged externally from a network of at least one wireless carrier.
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A system for multiple wireless network usage tracking responsive to a multiprotocol switching element, the multiprotocol switching element configured to receive wireless usage data from each of a plurality of wireless carriers, the system comprising:
- a policy management platform implemented having at least one processor configured to receive the wireless usage data from the multiprotocol switching element that was received from each of the plurality of wireless carriers;
- a subscriber profile repository (SPR) cluster element configured to perform at least one of the following:
- location management, subscriber authentication, call handling, message handling, and data usage;
- the policy management platform is configured to communicate with the subscriber profile repository (SPR) cluster element via an Active Programming Interface (API) integration element;
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- the policy management platform being configured to calculate account usage data associated with an account profile based on the wireless usage data received from each of the plurality of wireless carriers,
- wherein the policy management platform is implemented externally from at least one of the plurality of wireless carriers.
A device for multiple wireless network usage tracking configured to receive wireless usage data from a plurality of wireless networks through a multiprotocol switching element for an account profile associated with at least one wireless device, the device having one or more processors configured to:
- aggregate the wireless usage data from each of the wireless networks for the account profile with a policy management platform;
- perform with a subscriber profile repository (SPR) cluster element at least one of the following:
- location management, subscriber authentication, call handling, message handling, and data usage;
- communicate between the policy management platform and the subscriber profile repository (SPR) cluster element via an Active Programming Interface (API) integration element;
- determine whether the aggregate of the wireless usage data from the account profile has reached a predetermined usage threshold with the policy management platform;
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- transmit a termination request with the policy management platform to one or more of the plurality of wireless networks, the termination request requesting termination of a wireless service to the at least one wireless device,
- wherein the policy management platform is implemented externally from at least one of the plurality of wireless networks.
A method for multiple wireless network usage tracking in response to receiving wireless usage data from each of a plurality of wireless carriers with a multiprotocol switching element, the multiprotocol switching element having one or more processors, the method comprising:
- connecting a policy management platform having one or more processors to each of the plurality of wireless carriers through the multiprotocol switching element;
- receiving with the policy management platform the wireless usage data from each of a plurality of wireless carriers for an account profile operatively linked to at least one wireless device registered on the account profile and configured to connect to the wireless carriers;
- performing with a subscriber profile repository (SPR) cluster element at least one of the following:
- location management, subscriber authentication, call handling, message handling, and data usage;
- communicating between the policy management platform and the subscriber profile repository (SPR) cluster element via an Active Programming Interface (API) integration element;
- aggregating the wireless usage data at the policy management platform;
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- determining with the policy management platform, in response to aggregating the wireless usage data, whether the wireless usage data has reached a predetermined usage threshold,
- wherein the policy management platform is implemented externally from at least one of the plurality of wireless carriers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.