System, process, and device for multiple network usage tracking
AssigneeTracFone Wireless, Inc.
InventorsKaren Levine, Mansi Srivastava, Carmen Piña, Sonia Guell, Miguel Fernandez, James Zimmerman
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Abstract
A system for multiple network usage tracking, the system having a policy management platform having one or more processors able to receive and to calculate account usage data associated with an account profile, the policy management platform arranged externally from a network of at least one wireless carrier.
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A system for multiple wireless network usage tracking, the system comprising:
- a multiprotocol label switching element, the multiprotocol label switching element configured to receive wireless usage data from each of a plurality of wireless carriers;
- a policy management platform implemented by a network operator, the policy management platform having at least one processor configured to receive the wireless usage data from the multiprotocol label switching element that was received from each of the plurality of wireless carriers;
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- the policy management platform configured to calculate account usage data associated with an account profile based on the wireless usage data received from each of the plurality of wireless carriers,
- wherein the policy management platform is implemented externally from any network of the plurality of wireless carriers.
A device for multiple wireless network usage tracking, the device having one or more processors configured to:
- receive wireless usage data from a plurality of wireless networks through a multiprotocol label switching element for an account profile associated with at least one wireless device;
- aggregate the wireless usage data from each of the wireless networks for the account profile with a policy management platform;
- determine whether the aggregate of the wireless usage data from the account profile has reached a predetermined usage threshold with the policy management platform;
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- transmit a termination request with the policy management platform to one or more of the plurality of wireless networks, the termination request requesting termination of a wireless service to the at least one wireless device,
- wherein the policy management platform is implemented externally from any network of the plurality of wireless carriers.
A method for multiple wireless network usage tracking, the method comprising:
- receiving wireless usage data from each of a plurality of wireless carriers with a multiprotocol label switching element, the multiprotocol label switching element having one or more processors;
- connecting a policy management platform having one or more processors to a each of the plurality of wireless carriers through the multiprotocol label switching element;
- receiving with the policy management platform the wireless usage data from each of a plurality of wireless carriers for an account profile operatively linked to at least one wireless device registered on the account profile and configured to connect to the wireless carriers;
- aggregating the wireless usage data at the policy management platform;
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- determining with the policy management platform, in response to aggregating the account usage data, whether the wireless usage data has reached a predetermined usage threshold,
- wherein the policy management platform is implemented externally from any network of the plurality of wireless carriers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.