Method and device for indicating amounts of data in mobile networks
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
InventorAndreas Ericsson
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Abstract
A mobile communication device for use in a packet switched wireless communications network includes a display, which is able to indicate an amount of data remaining from a subscribed amount. This allows the user to see how much data lie can send or receive, within a prepaid subscription. The display is graphical, allowing the user to judge the amounts of data easily, as well as numerical. Advantageously, the mobile communication device calculates the amounts of data sent and received in such a way that it avoids double counting of retransmissions.
Claims24
A mobile communications device, comprising:
- a storage device, the storage device being capable of storing an indication of a first subscribed amount of data;
- a display, the display being capable of providing a first visual indication of a second amount of data remaining from the subscribed amount of data.
A mobile communications device as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the storage device is removable.
A mobile communications device as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the processing means is further capable of calculating a fourth amount of data in a session.
A mobile communications device as claimed in any preceding claim, capable of obtaining information, relating to the second amount of data, from a signal received from a mobile communications network.
A method of operating a mobile communications device, comprising:
- storing an indication of a first subscribed amount of data;
- and
- providing a first visual indication of a second amount of data remaining from the subscribed amount of data.
A mobile communications device, having a display, the display being capable of indicating an amount remaining from a subscribed amount of data.
A method of operating a mobile communications device, the method comprising:
- providing a visual indication of an amount of data remaining from a subscribed amount of data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.