Patent ID: 11916761
Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A system for providing communication services as value added services (VASs) to subscribers of a communication service provider based on building a subscriber relationship data structure in a data store and referencing the data store to determine service groups of subscribers to deploy the VASs, comprising:
a processor;
a non-transitory memory; and
one or more applications stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the processor:
construct the subscriber relationship data structure in the data store by a subscriber relationship engine of a network managed by the communication service provider and comprising a first layer, wherein the subscriber relationship engine comprises one of the one or more applications executable by the processor and the relationship data structure comprises a first layer which comprises a first VAS node corresponding to a first VAS offered by the network and a second layer comprising one or more service group nodes connected to the first VAS node and corresponding to one or more service groups;
receive a first request by the subscriber relationship engine for a first VAS offered by the communication service provider jointly from a first subscriber of the communication service provider and from a second subscriber of the communication service provider, wherein the first subscriber is associated with a first family unit, and the second subscriber is associated with a second family unit;
modify the subscriber relationship data structure by the subscriber relationship engine such that the one or more service group nodes comprises a first service group node in which the first subscriber and the second subscriber are each identified as belonging to a corresponding first service group of the one or more service groups;
present a first offer for the first VAS by an offer presenter of the network to the first subscriber and the second subscriber in response to receiving the first request, wherein the first offer is based on a service depth corresponding to the total number of subscribers comprising the first service group associated with the VAS; and
deploy the VAS by a VAS provisioning engine of the network to a first user equipment (UE) associated with the first subscriber and a second UE associated with the second subscriber in response to both the first subscriber and the second subscriber jointly accepting the first offer presented by the offer presenter.