System and method of managing IP access for user groups
AssigneeComverse, Inc.
InventorDaniel Leven
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Abstract
A system and method of managing the amount of usage of IP access to services for a user group are provided. The system includes: a user terminal through which a user interacts with the system; a user database for storing a user data; a real-time billing mediator for monitoring and collecting data traffic flowing through the system; a charging server for reading the user data from the user database and sending the user data to the real-time billing mediator; a user group provisioning station for updating the user data; and an application/content server for storing applications/content. The user group, rather than a network operator, provides controlling and provisioning of the IP access of individual users of the user group in the system.
Claims19
A system for managing IP access of a user in a user group, comprising:
- a user terminal through which the user interacts with the system;
- a user database for storing user data;
- a real-time billing mediator for monitoring and collecting data flowing through the system;
- a charging server for reading the user data from the user database and sending the user data to the real-time billing mediator;
- a user group provisioning station for updating the user data;
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- an application/content server for storing applications/content.
A method of controlling IP access of a user in a user group, comprising:
- a) requesting a connection to an application/content server via a user terminal;
- b) determining whether a user access is allowed, based on a predetermined limit on the user access input by a system administrator of the user group;
- c) establishing a connection between the user terminal and the application/content server, if it is determined that the user access is allowed;
- d) monitoring the user access, if the connection is established;
- e) determining whether the connected user has exceeded the predetermined limit on the user access;
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- f) notifying the user that the user access is not allowed and terminating the user access, if it is determined that the user has exceeded the predetermined limit.
A method of provisioning IP access of a user by a user group, comprising:
- a) inputting a predetermined limit on user access or the predetermined limits on the access of a number of users belonging to the user group via a user group provisioning station;
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- b) updating a user access quota or the access quotas of a number of users belonging to the user group in a user database, based on the predetermined limit or limits of the inputting operation.
Software contained in a computer readable medium, wherein said software comprises instructions to instruct a processor for performing operations, comprising:
- a) requesting a connection to an application/content server via a user terminal;
- b) determining whether a user access is allowed, based on a predetermined limit on the user access input by a system administrator of the user group;
- c) establishing a connection between the user terminal and the application/content server, if it is determined that the user access is allowed;
- d) monitoring the user access, if the connection is established;
- e) determining whether the connected user has exceeded the predetermined limit on the user access;
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- f) notifying the user that the user access is not allowed and terminating the user access, if it is determined that the user has exceeded the predetermined limit.
A system for managing IP access between a user terminal, through which a user in a user group interacts with the system to obtain IP access, and an application/content server, comprising:
- a user database for storing a user data;
- a real-time billing mediator for monitoring and collecting data flowing through the system;
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- a charging server for reading the user data from the user database and sending the user data to the real-time billing mediator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.