Patent ID: 9743269
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W,Y04S

Claim:
1. A method comprising: identifying, by a policy charging and rule function device and based on subscriber independent data collection criteria, one or more target subscribers from a plurality of subscribers, the subscriber independent data collection criteria including subscriber matching criteria and traffic matching criteria, the subscriber matching criteria including one or more of location information, a radio access technology type, a subscriber type, or a device type; for each of the one or more target subscribers, generating, by the policy charging and rule function device and based on the subscriber independent data collection criteria, subscriber specific policy and charging control rules that include the traffic matching criteria; and sending, by the policy charging and rule function device to a mobile network gateway, the subscriber specific policy and charging control rules to cause the mobile network gateway to collect network traffic data for network traffic of the one or more target subscribers that matches the traffic matching criteria.