Client-based context-based billing for wireless networks

A method for generating a context-based bill for a mobile station subscriber, the method comprising:

• receiving, from a billing client running on a mobile station, a billing record, the billing record based upon a billable event, the billing record including a static subscriber identifier;
• accumulating one or more billing records for a billing period;
• determining if the billing period has elapsed;
• and
• generating, for the mobile station subscriber corresponding to the static subscriber identifier, the context-based bill based upon the accumulated one or more billing records when it is determined that the billing period has elapsed.

A mobile station for generating context-based billing information, the mobile station comprising:

• a transmitter for transmitting a billing record;
• a memory for storing computer executable code;
• and
• a processor for processing the computer executable code stored in the memory, the computer executable code including:
• computer executable code for receiving, from an application running on the mobile station, an event trigger;
• computer executable code for determining if the event trigger corresponds to a billable event;
• computer executable code for generating the billing record based upon the event trigger when it is determined the event trigger corresponds to a billable event;
• computer executable code for adding to the billing record a static subscriber identifier;
• and
• computer executable code for causing the transmitter to transmit the billing record from the mobile station to a user monitoring server.

A user monitoring server for generating a context-based bill for a mobile station subscriber, the user monitoring server comprising:

• a receiver for receiving a billing record;
• a memory for storing computer executable code;
• and
• a processor for processing the computer executable code stored in the memory, the computer executable code including:
• computer executable code for receiving, from the receiver, a billing-record from a billing client running on a mobile station, the billing record based upon a billable event, the billing record including a static subscriber identifier;
• computer executable code for accumulating one or more billing records for a billing period;
• computer executable code for determining if the billing period has elapsed;
• computer executable code for generating, for the mobile station subscriber corresponding to the static subscriber identifier, the context-based bill based upon the accumulated one or more billing records when it is determined that the billing period has elapsed.