Patent ID: 9565543
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method performed by a network system in cooperation with a service processor executing on a wireless end-user device, the method comprising: receiving authentication information from the wireless end-user device, the authentication information enabling the network system to authenticate the service processor as trusted for device activity monitoring; the network system providing configuration information to the service processor, the configuration information identifying a plurality of device activities for which wireless network Internet data usage is to be monitored; based on the configuration information, the service processor, for each of a plurality of reporting intervals, monitoring and separately counting wireless network Internet data usage associated with each identified device activity; for each reporting interval for which wireless network Internet data usage is counted, the service processor securely sending one or more wireless data usage records to the network system, each such wireless data usage record identified with a corresponding one of the device activities and indicating the separate count of wireless network Internet data usage for that corresponding activity; and the network system receiving the wireless data usage records and, using one or more electronically-stored rules associated with one or more service plans for the wireless end-user device, apportioning the wireless data usage indicated in the wireless data usage records to different service plan data usage classes based on device activity.