Client-based context-based billing for wireless networks

Details Client-based context-based billing for wireless networks Client-based context-based billing for wireless networks

2004-12-29

2009-11-17

Harper, Vincent P (Department: 2617)

Telecommunications

Radiotelephone system

Usage measurement

C455S407000, C455S405000, C455S409000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07620383

ABSTRACT:
The invention increases billing options for a wireless service provider by allowing the provider to make billing decisions based upon what a client or mobile station application does both on and off the network. This type of billing, based on context, generates a billing record of events whether or not a particular client accesses the wireless network or not. The invention also provides transmission quality data allowing the wireless network provider to improve user experience in a wireless network. The invention captures the context, including content, quantity, and/or quality of data processed by a mobile station using a client-based application rather than a network-based application. The client-based application causes the mobile station to transmit a billing record corresponding to the captured context to a user monitoring server. The user monitoring server processes the billing record for determining billing and for generating engineering reports.

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3GPP2 P.20001-B, “3rdGeneration Partnership Project 2 ‘3GPP2’ for cdma2000 Wireless IP Network Standard”,3GPP2 and its Organizational Partners, Sep. 2004, 111 pgs.

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