Device assisted ambient services
AssigneeHeadwater Partners I LLC
InventorGregory G Raleigh
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Abstract
Various embodiments are disclosed for a services policy communication system and method. In some embodiments, a communications device implements a service profile for assisting control of the communications device use of a service on a network, in which the service profile includes service policy settings, and the service profile is associated with an ambient service plan that provides for initial access to the service with limited service capabilities prior to activation of a new service plan; and monitors use of the service based on the service profile.
Claims30
An end-user device comprising:
- a modem for enabling the end-user device to access one or more network communication end points over a wireless network;
- a user interface;
- memory configured to store a service policy associated with at least a first set of one or more service activities, the first set of one of more service activities being fewer than all service activities available to the end-user device, the service policy configured to:
- cause the end-user device to provide, to a network element, information for assisting in providing a first accounting to a sponsor entity, the first accounting comprising an accounting of at least a portion of a usage cost or usage measure associated with usage of the wireless network associated with the first set of one or more service activities, the sponsor entity being an entity other than a user of the end-user device, other than an account-holder associated with the end-user device, and other than an operator of the wireless network, the first accounting being separate from a second accounting of a second set of one or more service activities, the second set of one or more service activities being fewer than all service activities available to the end-user device, and
- cause a notification to be presented through the user interface, the notification being associated with the first accounting, the second accounting, or both the first accounting and the second accounting;
- and
- one or more processors configured to:
- monitor end-user device data traffic,
- identify, in the monitored end-user device data traffic, a data communication over the wireless network associated with the first set of one or more service activities, and
- in response to identifying the data communication over the wireless network associated with the first set of one or more service activities, apply the service policy.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing machine-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of an end-user device, cause the one or more processors to:
- monitor data traffic of the end-user device;
- identify, in the monitored data traffic of the end-user device, a data communication over a wireless network, the data communication associated with a first set of one or more service activities, the first set of one or more service activities being fewer than all service activities available to the end-user device over the wireless network;
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- in response to identifying the data communication over the wireless network:
- cause the end-user device to provide, to a network element, information for assisting in providing a first accounting to a sponsor entity, the first accounting comprising an accounting of at least a portion of a usage cost or usage measure associated with usage of the wireless network associated with the first set of one or more service activities, the sponsor entity being an entity other than a user of the end-user device, other than an account-holder associated with the end-user device, and other than an operator of the wireless network, the first accounting being separate from a second accounting of a second set of one or more service activities, the second set of one or more service activities being fewer than all service activities available to the end-user device, and
- cause a notification to be presented through a user interface of the end-user device, the notification being associated with the first accounting, the second accounting, or both the first accounting and the second accounting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.