Patent ID: 11972403
Assignee: nan
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for providing data delivery services from a service platform to one or more application programs, the method comprising:
storing, on at least one computer medium and in at least one database for maintaining subscription plans associated with a data delivery service provided by the service platform over a communications infrastructure for communication between the service platform and one or more mobile devices operated by the one or more end-user subscribers, a first record associated with a first entity and a first subscription plan for the data delivery service in response to receiving, from the first entity, a request for the first subscription plan, thereby establishing the first entity as a first service recipient to receive the data delivery service per the first subscription plan;
storing, on the at least one computer medium and in the at least one database, a second record associated with a second entity and a second subscription plan for the data delivery service in response to receiving, from the second entity, a request for the second subscription plan, thereby establishing the second entity as a second service recipient to receive the data delivery service per the second subscription plan;
registering a third entity to be associated with the service platform as a first sponsor having a first sponsorship for sponsoring at least a portion of the data delivery service provided by the service platform;
providing, to at least one mobile device operated by the first service recipient, first audio content via the data delivery service, wherein the first audio content has been received by the service platform from the first sponsor for data delivery to the first service recipient;
providing, to at least one mobile device operated by the second service recipient, second audio content via the data delivery service, wherein the second audio content has been received by the service platform from a fourth entity for data delivery to the second service recipient; and
after it is determined, by at least use of at least one processor, that a designated datetime for one of the subscription plans associated with the data delivery service provided by the service platform to a service recipient has passed, creating a bill for the service recipient of the one of the subscription plans regarding the data delivery service, wherein, in the instance the one of the subscription plans is the first subscription plan associated with the first record and as a result of a determination, by the service platform, that the first service recipient has subscribed to an audio delivery service provided by the first sponsor, the creating of the bill includes at least a) using first recorded tracked activity performed by the first service recipient using the data delivery service, b) creating a token requirement based on at least the first recorded tracked activity, and c) applying at least one credit towards the at least a portion of the data delivery service.