Systems and methods for monitoring data and bandwidth usage

A method for managing the consumption of data, comprising:

• monitoring, using at least one of a plurality of electronic devices, data consumption by the plurality of electronic devices, wherein the plurality of electronic devices consume data through a common account of a data provider;
• determining, using the at least one of the plurality of electronic devices, that the data consumption has reached a predetermined resource limit associated with the common account;
• automatically indicating, using the at least one of the plurality of electronic devices, to at least one other one of the plurality of electronic devices that the predetermined resource limit has been reached;
• identifying, in response to the determining, at least one of the plurality of electronic devices based on the data consumed by the identified at least one of the plurality of electronic devices;
• and
• managing access of the identified at least one of the plurality of electronic devices to data, wherein managing comprises reducing the data available to the identified electronic device, and wherein reducing comprises at least one of:
• preventing the identified electronic device from transferring a particular type of data;
• preventing the identified electronic device from transferring data using a particular communications protocol;
• preventing the identified electronic device from consuming data using a particular application;
• or
• preventing the identified electronic device from consuming data at a particular time of day or week.

A non-transitory computer readable memory medium comprising program instructions for managing data provider resource consumption by a device, wherein the program instructions are executable by a processor in the device to cause the processor to:

• monitor data provider resource consumption by the device over a first communications network;
• determine that the data provider resource consumption is within a predetermined range of a data provider resource limit;
• automatically provide a notice related to the consumed data provider resources in response to the determining that the data provider resource consumption is within the predetermined range of the data provider resource limit;
• and
• automatically limit access to data provider resources in response to the determining that the data provider resource consumption is within the predetermined range of the data provider resource limit;
• wherein, in limiting access to data provider resources, the program instructions are executable to cause the processor to:
• identify a restricted set of data provider resource usages;
• detect that a requested use is within the identified set;
• and
• prevent access to the data provider resources for the requested use in response to the detecting;
• wherein the identified set comprises at least one of:
• data provider resource usage by a particular user;
• data provider resource usage by a particular electronic device;
• data provider resource usage by a particular application;
• data provider resource usage by a particular process;
• data provider resource usage using a particular communications protocol;
• data provider resource usage for a particular type of data transfer;
• or
• data provider resource usage for a particular type of data.