Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Accounting
Reexamination Certificate
2004-08-13
2009-10-27
Smith, Jeffrey A (Department: 3625)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Accounting
C705S412000, C705S026640, C379S114060, C379S114070
Reexamination Certificate
active
07610225
ABSTRACT:
Utilization of resources used to provide a service, and/or costs associated with providing system resources for a service, are tracked in a system where the available resources vary depending on a variety of conditions including resource utilization by other users. The methods are well suited for systems such as mobile communications systems, where the amount of resources and/or costs to a system of providing a service are dynamic and can change on a relatively rapid time scale. Resource utilization is tracked on a per subscriber basis. Service charges can be determined as a function of both the amount of resources consumed and the amount of data delivered, with the amount of resources being used to deliver a fixed amount of data units varying as a function of environmental and/or other conditions. Service charges are sometimes determined as a function of the impact of providing the service to a first user on other system users.
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Levine Adam
Pelaez Francois A.
Qualcomm Incorporated
Smith Jeffrey A
Straub Michael P.
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