Patent ID: 9397899
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: accessing, at a wireless device, a portal managed by a usage manager to establish an agreement with the usage manager for use of an application via a wireless wide area network (WWAN), the agreement to include policies associated with limits to data bandwidth utilized while the application is used via the WWAN, the application provided by an application service provider having an application service level agreement (SLA) with the usage manager for providing the application to the wireless device via the WWAN; obtaining access to the WWAN through an operator of the WWAN to enable use of the application by presenting first credentials for authenticating the wireless device to the operator of the WWAN via a universal subscriber identity module (USIM) at the wireless device and presenting second credentials to the usage manager for authenticating the wireless device for use of the application, the second credentials comprising one or both of an X.509 certificate and a session initiation protocol (SIP) digest, the operator of the WWAN having an access SLA with the usage manager; and executing the application according to the agreement.