公开(公告)号：US09923728B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-20

申请号：US14694683

申请日：2015-04-23

申请人： Cisco Technology, Inc.

发明人： Robert M. Batz ,  Walter G. Dixon ,  Robert A. Mackie ,  Mark Albert ,  Chris O'Rourke ,  Humberto M. Tavares

IPC分类号： H04L12/28 ,  H04L12/14 ,  H04L12/741

CPC分类号： H04L12/1403 ,  H04L12/14 ,  H04L12/1435 ,  H04L12/1471 ,  H04L45/74

摘要： In one embodiment, a method includes receiving one or more packets of a communication session from one or more interfaces, such that the interface is a subscriber interface or a network interface. The method further includes associating the communication session to an end user with a source Internet Protocol (IP) address of the packet if the packet is received from the subscriber interface or to an end user with a destination IP address of the packet if the packet is received from the network interface.

公开(公告)号：US20180077292A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-15

申请号：US15554570

申请日：2015-03-13

申请人： Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)

发明人： Björn RINGBERG ,  Lars ANGLERT ,  Karin HOEL

IPC分类号： H04M15/00

CPC分类号： H04M15/66 ,  H04L12/1407 ,  H04L12/1435 ,  H04L12/1439 ,  H04M15/00 ,  H04M15/60 ,  H04M15/61 ,  H04W4/24 ,  H04W4/50

摘要： Disclosed is a method performed by a policy control server of a communication network to facilitate provisioning of service-related products in the communication network. The method comprises receiving, from a node of the communication network, a policy settings request message, requesting charging policy settings for service-related products of a subscriber of the communication network, the message comprising a subscriber identity, obtaining, based on the received subscriber identity, information of a number of first service-related products that are provision-capable for the subscriber, and selecting, based on the information of the obtained number of first products, a number of second service-related products that are tentative for the subscriber. The method further comprises obtaining, in response to the selection, policy settings for the number of second products, and sending, to the communication network node, the obtained policy settings for the number of second products.

公开(公告)号：US09911106B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-06

申请号：US14141143

申请日：2013-12-26

申请人： Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

发明人： Rainer Schoenen ,  Halim Yanikomeroglu

IPC分类号： G07F19/00 ,  H04M15/00 ,  G06Q20/14 ,  G06Q20/08 ,  G06Q20/12 ,  H04L12/14

CPC分类号： G06Q20/145 ,  G06Q20/085 ,  G06Q20/127 ,  H04L12/1432 ,  H04L12/1435 ,  H04L12/1485 ,  H04M15/43 ,  H04M15/58 ,  H04M15/61 ,  H04M15/80 ,  H04M15/81

摘要： Embodiments are provided for enabling dynamic pricing of services to users. The amount of usage all or different services are quantized into quanta of minimum usage units, such as to an amount of effective bits (eBits) in communications services. The amount of usage of the different services is weighted differently, such as according to service cost or demand, to obtain corresponding amount of quanta of usage or eBits for each service. The amount of quanta of usage or eBits for the different services is summed up to provide a total amount of quanta of usage or eBits. The total amount of quanta of usage or eBits is converted into a total charge, as a product of the total amount of quanta of usage or eBits, or a monotonic function of the total amount, and a fixed charge rate per quanta of usage or eBit.

公开(公告)号：US09900231B2

公开(公告)日：2018-02-20

申请号：US13721066

申请日：2012-12-20

申请人： Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

发明人： Gil Zalmanovitch ,  Gregory James Scott ,  Shai Guday ,  Alec Garvin Kwok ,  Yue Jiang ,  Kenneth Vincent Ma

IPC分类号： H04W24/02 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04M15/00 ,  H04L12/14 ,  H04W4/24 ,  H04W4/00 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04M1/725 ,  H04W88/06

CPC分类号： H04L43/0876 ,  H04L12/1435 ,  H04L43/04 ,  H04L43/045 ,  H04L43/062 ,  H04M1/72522 ,  H04M15/41 ,  H04M15/58 ,  H04M15/60 ,  H04M15/765 ,  H04M15/7652 ,  H04M15/775 ,  H04M15/80 ,  H04M15/8044 ,  H04M15/83 ,  H04M15/84 ,  H04M15/846 ,  H04M15/85 ,  H04M15/853 ,  H04M15/854 ,  H04M15/856 ,  H04M15/86 ,  H04W4/24 ,  H04W4/26 ,  H04W4/60 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W8/186 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04W88/06

摘要： Embodiments manage use of different network connections for data transfer in view of priority information and a data usage plan identifying threshold limits associated with the different network connections. A computing device receives data transfer requests from applications executing on the computing device. The data transfer requests have priority information associated therewith. The computing device compares the priority information with available network connections. One or more of the data transfer requests are selected for initiation based on the comparison and on the threshold limits.

公开(公告)号：US09832690B2

公开(公告)日：2017-11-28

申请号：US14798663

申请日：2015-07-14

申请人： Sadafuku Hayashi

发明人： Sadafuku Hayashi

IPC分类号： H04W36/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L12/14 ,  H04M15/00 ,  H04W4/24 ,  H04W4/26 ,  H04W88/08 ,  H04W88/02 ,  H04W36/02 ,  H04W92/20

CPC分类号： H04W36/0072 ,  H04L12/14 ,  H04L12/1435 ,  H04M15/73 ,  H04M15/8038 ,  H04M2215/204 ,  H04M2215/7072 ,  H04M2215/7442 ,  H04W4/24 ,  H04W36/0055 ,  H04W36/02 ,  H04W72/042 ,  H04W88/02 ,  H04W88/08 ,  H04W92/20

摘要： A mobile communication system which can transfer information on the number of packets counted up until then by a base station of a mobile source, to a base station of a mobile target, even when a terminal performs a handover. UE moves to a Target eNode B, but a Source eNode B decides to perform a handover, and the Source eNode B includes information on the number of packets counted up until then in a Handover Request message to the Target eNode B, so as to notify the Target eNode B. After receiving a Handover Confirm message from the UE, the Target eNode B includes information on the number of packets received from the Source eNode B in a Handover Complete message transmitted to a CN Node, so as to notify the CN Node.

公开(公告)号：US20170330122A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-16

申请号：US15658015

申请日：2017-07-24

申请人： OpenPeak LLC

发明人： James Asnis

IPC分类号： G06Q10/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/14 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04W12/08

CPC分类号： G06Q10/06313 ,  H04L12/1403 ,  H04L12/1435 ,  H04L12/1496 ,  H04L43/0876 ,  H04L63/08 ,  H04L67/14 ,  H04L67/141 ,  H04L67/2814 ,  H04W12/0027 ,  H04W12/08

摘要： A method and system for enabling data usage accounting is described herein. The method can be practiced on a computing device that has secure applications and unsecure applications installed thereon. Initially, a request for a data session that includes a final endpoint can be received through a secure application. The request for the data session can be intercepted and modified to cause the request to be re-directed back to the secure application. A connection with a relay server can be initiated instead of the final endpoint such that data usage accounting for the data session is to be conducted at a remote location.

公开(公告)号：US20170310495A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-26

申请号：US15489054

申请日：2017-04-17

申请人： Tata Communications (America) Inc.

发明人： Brian Peebles ,  Frederic Dingemans ,  Patrick Menard

IPC分类号： H04L12/14 ,  H04W4/00 ,  H04W12/12 ,  H04L29/12

CPC分类号： H04L12/1446 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  H04L12/14 ,  H04L12/1435 ,  H04L61/605 ,  H04M15/00 ,  H04M15/49 ,  H04M15/8083 ,  H04M17/02 ,  H04M17/20 ,  H04M17/201 ,  H04M17/203 ,  H04M17/204 ,  H04W4/24 ,  H04W4/60 ,  H04W8/12 ,  H04W12/12

摘要： A system and method for providing top-up of mobile data, by processing one or more transactions between a data sponsor and a data beneficiary who is possibly being served by multiple data providers. The top-up can be based on i) an application program interface (API) call being made into the mobile network operator of a data user or ii) an API call being made into a sponsored data (SD) platform/system (SDS) to allocate a quota to the data user, among other possible product options. In the first option, provisioning of the data quota and consumption against the quota is managed directly by the mobile network operator itself. In the second option, allocation of the quota and consumption against the quota is managed by the SDS and an SD control app. The system can select a particular option because that option best meets one or more business goals or rules.

公开(公告)号：US09800741B2

公开(公告)日：2017-10-24

申请号：US14221306

申请日：2014-03-21

申请人： HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

发明人： Yafeng Zhang

IPC分类号： H04M11/00 ,  H04M15/00 ,  H04W4/24 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04L12/14

CPC分类号： H04M15/60 ,  H04L12/1403 ,  H04L12/1435 ,  H04L12/1467 ,  H04L12/1485 ,  H04L12/1496 ,  H04M15/85 ,  H04M15/851 ,  H04M15/854 ,  H04W4/24 ,  H04W12/06

摘要： Embodiments of the present application provide a charging method, a charging device, a charging system, and an authentication device. According to the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present application, when the available service volume of the user is not enough at the time close to the tariff switch point, the operation of forcing a user to go offline may be performed selectively, depending on the specific situation. Therefore, the operation of forcing a user to go offline can meet requirements of increasingly complicated charging policies of the operator.

公开(公告)号：US20170257223A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-07

申请号：US14905038

申请日：2015-11-03

申请人： TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)

发明人： Per Persson ,  Ola Angelsmark ,  Joakim Persson

IPC分类号： H04L12/14

CPC分类号： H04L12/14 ,  G06F11/3438 ,  H04L12/1432 ,  H04L12/1435 ,  H04L12/1496 ,  H04L12/28 ,  H04L12/4625 ,  H04L43/0817 ,  H04L67/12 ,  H04M17/00 ,  H04M17/35 ,  H04W4/24 ,  H04W4/70

摘要： The present disclosure relates to methods of metering, and in particular to methods of metering activities of applications in distributed networks. More particular, the disclosure concerns a method for metering the operation of distributed Internet of Things, IoT devices. This disclosure relates to a method for metering activities of an application in a data processing system, wherein said data processing system comprises resource nodes configured to perform activities executed as actors in the respective resource nodes; and wherein the actors are controlled by one or more runtimes in the data processing system. The method comprises tracing, by a runtime, information related to activities executed by actors controlled by the runtime, and metering, by the runtime, the operation of the application based on the part of the traced information, which is related to activities of actors being used by the metered application. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to corresponding apparatuses and computer programs.

公开(公告)号：US09756525B2

公开(公告)日：2017-09-05

申请号：US14578691

申请日：2014-12-22

申请人： Google Inc.

发明人： Siddharth Ray ,  Murari Srinivasan ,  Milo Steven Medin

IPC分类号： H04L12/26 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04L12/14 ,  H04L12/803 ,  H04M15/00

CPC分类号： H04W28/0289 ,  H04L12/1435 ,  H04L12/1489 ,  H04L47/122 ,  H04M15/80 ,  H04M15/8027 ,  H04W28/0247

摘要： A method includes receiving a connection request from a mobile device at a network device to allow connection of the mobile device to a core network of the first service provider through a first base station and determining whether a backhaul connection between the core network of the first service provider and the first base station is congested by the network device. The backhaul connection is determined to be congested when L is greater than (D−B)/T. When the first backhaul connection is determined to be congested, the method also includes preventing the first base station from connecting the mobile device to the core network.