Patent ID: 9565586
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: establishing, by a service control gateway positioned between an access gateway for a mobile access network and a packet data network, a session by which a mobile device accesses a service provided by the packet data network; determining, by a processor of the service control gateway, that the service control gateway has received an incomplete indication to activate usage monitoring of the service using the session based on a message indicating activation of the usage monitoring without having received a previous message triggering reporting for the usage monitoring or the message triggering reporting for the usage monitoring; and in response to determining that the service control gateway has received the incomplete indication to activate the usage monitoring of the service using the session, configuring, by the processor, at least a portion of the usage monitoring by the service control gateway without activating the usage monitoring.