# US 2021/0344718 A1 · Network service plan design

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- Number: US 2021/0344718 A1
- Document ID: US20210344718A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 17/121,717
- Filed: 2020-12-14
- Published: 2021-11-04
- Earliest claimed: 2009-01-28
- Assignees: Headwater Research LLC
- Inventors: Gregory G. Raleigh; James Lavine; Justin James; Jeffrey Green
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210344718A1

## CPC

- H04W 12/08: Access security
- G06F 15/177: Initialisation or configuration control {(processor initialisation G06F9/4405)}
- G06Q 10/06315: {Needs-based resource requirements planning or analysis}
- G06Q 10/06375: {Prediction of business process outcome or impact based on a proposed change}
- G06Q 20/102: {Bill distribution or payments}
- G06Q 20/20: Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
- G06Q 20/32: using wireless devices
- G06Q 20/40: Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check credit lines or negative lists
- G06Q 30/0207: Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
- G06Q 30/0241: Advertisements
- G06Q 30/0283: Price estimation or determination
- G06Q 30/0284: {Time or distance, e.g. usage of parking meters or taximeters}
- G06Q 30/04: Billing or invoicing
- G06Q 30/0601: Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
- G06Q 40/00: Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
- G06Q 40/12: Accounting
- H04L 9/32: including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system {or for message authentication, e.g. authorization, entity authentication, data integrity or data verification, non-repudiation, key authentication or verification of credentials}
- H04L 9/3247: {involving digital signatures}
- H04L 12/14: Charging, metering or billing arrangements specially adapted for data communications, e.g. authentication, authorisation and accounting [AAA] framework
- H04L 12/1407: {Policy-and-charging control [PCC] architecture}
- H04L 41/0806: for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
- H04L 41/0894: Policy-based network configuration management
- H04L 41/5003: Managing SLA; Interaction between SLA and QoS
- H04L 41/5054: Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
- H04L 47/20: Traffic policing
- H04L 47/2408: for supporting different services, e.g. a differentiated services [DiffServ] type of service
- H04L 51/046: Interoperability with other network applications or services
- H04L 63/0236: {Filtering by address, protocol, port number or service, e.g. IP-address or URL}
- H04L 63/04: {for providing a confidential data exchange among entities communicating through data packet networks}
- H04L 63/0428: {wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload}
- H04L 63/08: {for authentication of entities (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32)}
- H04L 63/0853: {using an additional device, e.g. smartcard, SIM or a different communication terminal (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving additional secure or trusted devices H04L9/3234)}
- H04L 63/0892: {by using authentication-authorization-accounting [AAA] servers or protocols}
- H04L 63/10: {for controlling access to devices or network resources}
- H04L 63/20: {for managing network security; network security policies in general (filtering policies H04L63/0227)}
- H04L 67/145: avoiding end of session, e.g. keep-alive, heartbeats, resumption message or wake-up for inactive or interrupted session
- H04L 67/306: User profiles
- H04L 67/51: Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
- H04L 67/55: Push-based network services
- H04L 67/63: Routing a service request depending on the request content or context
- H04M 15/00: Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication {; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP}
- H04M 15/49: {Connection to several service providers}
- H04M 15/58: {based on statistics of usage or network monitoring}
- H04M 15/61: {based on the service used}
- H04M 15/66: {Policy and charging system}
- H04M 15/80: {Rating or billing plans; Tariff determination aspects}
- H04M 15/8055: {Selecting cheaper transport technology for a given service}
- H04M 15/88: {Provision for limiting connection, or expenditure}
- H04W 4/02: Services making use of location information
- H04W 4/12: Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
- H04W 4/18: Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
- H04W 4/20: Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
- H04W 4/24: Accounting or billing
- H04W 4/50: Service provisioning or reconfiguring
- H04W 8/18: Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
- H04W 8/20: Transfer of user or subscriber data
- H04W 12/00: Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity
- H04W 12/02: Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
- H04W 12/037: of the control plane, e.g. signalling traffic
- H04W 12/06: Authentication
- H04W 12/37: Managing security policies for mobile devices or for controlling mobile applications
- H04W 24/08: Testing, {supervising or monitoring} using real traffic
- H04W 28/02: Traffic management, e.g. flow control or congestion control
- H04W 28/0215: {based on user or device properties, e.g. MTC-capable devices (services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] H04W4/70; wireless resource selection or allocation plan definition based on terminal or device properties H04W72/51)}
- H04W 28/0268: {using specific QoS parameters for wireless networks, e.g. QoS class identifier [QCI] or guaranteed bit rate [GBR] (negotiating SLA or negotiating QoS H04W28/24)}
- H04W 28/12: using signalling between network elements
- H04W 48/14: using user query {or user detection}
- H04W 48/16: Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
- H04W 72/0453: Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
- H04W 88/08: Access point devices
- H04L 41/0876: {Aspects of the degree of configuration automation}
- H04L 41/5025: by proactively reacting to service quality change, e.g. by reconfiguration after service quality degradation or upgrade
- H04L 67/34: {involving the movement of software or configuration parameters (network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416)}
- H04L 67/564: Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
- H04M 2215/0188: Network monitoring; statistics on usage on called/calling number
- H04W 8/02: Processing of mobility data, e.g. registration information at HLR [Home Location Register] or VLR [Visitor Location Register]; Transfer of mobility data, e.g. between HLR, VLR or external networks
- H04W 84/04: Large scale networks; Deep hierarchical networks
- H04W 84/042: {Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems}
- H04W 84/12: WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
- H04W 88/06: adapted for operation in multiple networks {or having at least two operational modes}, e.g. multi-mode terminals
- Y02P 90/80: Management or planning
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)
- H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08)
- Y02P: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS

## Abstract

A technique involves modular storage of network service plan components and provisioning of same. A subset of the capabilities of a service design system can be granted to a sandbox system to enable customization of service plan offerings or other controls.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of provisioning a service to be delivered to an end-user device via a network, the method comprising:
prompting a service designer, on a user interface of a computing device, to specify an aspect of an access control policy and an aspect of an access accounting policy;
generating, within the computing device, an access control policy instruction based at least in part on the aspect of the access control policy and an access accounting policy instruction based at least in part on the aspect of the access accounting policy; and
outputting, from the computing device, the access control policy instruction and the access accounting policy instruction to one or more processing elements accessible via the network to enable the one or more processing elements to apply, in connection with the service, an access control action in accordance with the access control policy instruction and an access accounting action in accordance with the access accounting policy instruction.