Device assisted CDR creation, aggregation, mediation and billing
AssigneeHeadwater Research LLC
InventorGregory G Raleigh
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Abstract
Device assisted CDR creation, aggregation, mediation and billing is provided. In some embodiments, device assisted CDR creation, aggregation, mediation and billing for a wireless network includes collecting device generated service usage information for one or more devices in wireless communication on the wireless network; and providing the device generated service usage information in a syntax (e.g., a device assisted charging data record (CDR)) and a communication protocol (e.g., 3GPP, 3GPP2, or other communication protocols) that can be used by other network devices to augment or replace network generated service usage information for the one or more devices in wireless communication on the wireless network.
Claims9
A system, comprising:
- a plurality of wireless end-user devices, each comprising a service monitor agent to monitor application network service usage for each of a plurality of applications on that wireless end-user device and for a plurality of wireless networks, and to create device-generated service usage information from the monitored application network service usage, the device-generated service usage information separately recording network usage for multiple ones of the plurality of applications on the plurality of wireless networks;
- a processor of a network device in secure network communication with each of the plurality of wireless end-user devices, wherein the processor is configured to:
- collect the device-generated service usage information from the plurality of wireless end-user devices;
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- provide, to an accounting element for at least one of the plurality of wireless networks, the device-generated service usage information in a syntax and a communication protocol that can be used by other network devices to augment or replace network-generated service usage information for the plurality of wireless end-user devices;
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- a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.