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US 8,478,667 B2Granted
Automated device provisioning and activation
AssigneeHeadwater Partners I LLC
InventorGregory G. Raleigh
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Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed for monitoring traffic associated with an end-user device communicatively coupled to a network system over a wireless access network, identifying in the traffic particular data transfers within a service activity category, determining a service usage measure based on the identification of the particular data transfers within the service activity category, and, based at least in part on the service usage measure, generating a notification configured to assist in causing a user interface of the end-user device to present device-specific service usage information.
Claims30
A method comprising:
- monitoring traffic associated with an end-user device communicatively coupled to a network system over one or more wireless access networks, the end-user device including at least one modem, a user interface, and at least one software component enabling the end-user device to access at least one data service over the one or more wireless access networks, the traffic comprising one or more data transfers;
- identifying, in the traffic, particular data transfers within a service activity category, the service activity category identifying a set of one or more service activities less than all service activities associated with the end-user device, the service activity category identifying a particular end-user device application or a particular network communication end point;
- determining a service usage measure based on the identification of the particular data transfers within the service activity category;
- based at least in part on the service usage measure, generating a notification configured to assist in causing the user interface of the end-user device to present service usage information;
- and
- obtaining a user input from a user of the end-user device, the user input associated with (1) the presented service usage information, or (2) a control policy applicable to one or more attempted or successful communications within the service activity category.
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A network system comprising:
- means for monitoring traffic associated with an end-user device communicatively coupled to the network system over one or more wireless access networks, the end-user device including at least one modem, a user interface, and at least one software component enabling the end-user device to access at least one data service over the one or more wireless access networks, the traffic comprising one or more data transfers;
- means for identifying, in the traffic, particular data transfers within a service activity category, the service activity category identifying a set of one or more service activities less than all service activities associated with the end-user device, the service activity category identifying a particular end-user device application or a particular network communication end point;
- means for determining a service usage measure based on the identification of the particular data transfers within the service activity category;
- means for providing a notification to the end-user device, the notification based at least in part on the service usage measure, the notification configured to assist in causing the user interface of the end-user device to present service usage information;
- and
- means for obtaining a user input from a user of the end-user device, the user input associated with (1) the presented service usage information, or (2) a control policy applicable to one or more attempted or successful communications within the service activity category.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program code for causing a computer to execute a method comprising:
- monitoring traffic associated with an end-user device communicatively coupled to a network system over one or more wireless access networks, the end-user device including at least one modem, a user interface, and at least one software component enabling the end-user device to access at least one data service over the one or more wireless access networks, the traffic comprising one or more data transfers;
- identifying, in the traffic, particular data transfers within a service activity category, the service activity category identifying a set of one or more service activities less than all service activities associated with the end-user device, the service activity category identifying a particular end-user device application or a particular network communication end point;
- determining a service usage measure based on the identification of the particular data transfers within the service activity category;
- based at least in part on the service usage measure, generating a notification configured to assist in causing the user interface of the end-user device to present service usage information;
- and
- obtaining a user input from a user of the end-user device, the user input associated with (1) the presented service usage information, or (2) a control policy applicable to one or more attempted or successful communications within the service activity category.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.