Adjustable and dynamic thresholds in wireless networks
AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.
InventorsJames Chungyu LIU, Anthony E. JOHNSON
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Abstract
Techniques and architectures enable a wireless communications network to allow for dynamic changes or on-the-fly selections of Fair Usage thresholds or other thresholds and to allow for the Fair Usage thresholds to be associated with individual subscribers of the wireless communications network. Subscriber groups of relatively small granularity or individual subscribers may be assigned a profile that sets forth actions to be applied to subscribers in response to the subscribers reaching particular thresholds of data usage.
Claims20
A wireless communication network comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a non-transitory storage medium;
- and
- instructions stored in the non-transitory storage medium, the instructions being executable by the one or more processors to:
- generate an action-triggering profile for a subscriber of a wireless service provider, wherein the action-triggering profile is based, at least in part, on a rate plan associated with the subscriber;
- assign the action-triggering profile to the subscriber;
- receive, from a counter, a count of data usage by the subscriber;
- select, based at least in part on the action-triggering profile of the subscriber, which particular threshold of a threshold scale of multiple thresholds to use for triggering an action;
- and
- trigger the action associated with the selected particular threshold.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a network element, cause a flow controller of the network element to perform operations comprising:
- generating an action-triggering profile for a subscriber of a wireless service provider, wherein the action-triggering profile is based, at least in part, on a rate plan associated with the subscriber;
- assigning the action-triggering profile to the subscriber;
- receiving, from a counter, a count of data usage by the subscriber;
- selecting, based at least in part on the action-triggering profile of the subscriber, which particular threshold of a threshold scale of multiple thresholds to use for triggering an action;
- and
- triggering the action associated with the selected particular threshold.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- generating an action-triggering profile for a subscriber of a wireless service provider, wherein the action-triggering profile is based, at least in part, on a rate plan associated with the subscriber;
- assigning the action-triggering profile to the subscriber;
- receiving, from a counter, a count of data usage by the subscriber;
- selecting, based at least in part on the action-triggering profile of the subscriber, which particular threshold of a threshold scale of multiple thresholds to use for triggering an action;
- and
- triggering the action associated with the selected particular threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.