Patent ID: 9565318
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a service provider device of a service provider operating a telecommunication network, an indication that a user's consumption of data over the telecommunication network has exceeded a threshold, the threshold being one of a plurality of thresholds associated with increasingly larger amounts of data consumption; in response to receiving the indication, reducing, by the service provider device, a service level specific to the user, the service level being associated with a quality of service provided by the telecommunication network to one or more devices of the user; determining that the user's consumption of data over the telecommunication network has exceeded a second threshold; in response to determining that the user's data consumption has exceeded the second threshold, reducing a maximum bit rate at which at least one of the one or more devices of the user is able to communicate with the telecommunication network; and increasing the reduced service level while reducing the maximum bit rate.