Patent ID: 9681283
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for tracking usage of a wireless device, comprising: inserting, at the wireless device, an identifier of a first type of wireless service in a first data packet and a second data packet; implementing a tracking device in at least one of the following: a mobile virtual network operator system and the wireless device; monitoring, at the tracking device connected to and different from a wireless network, information regarding the first data packet sent from the wireless device to the wireless network, wherein the information regarding the first data packet includes an identifier of the wireless device, the identifier of a first type of wireless service, and an amount of data included in the first data packet; determining first usage of the first type of wireless service based on information regarding the first data packet; storing the first usage of the first type of wireless service for the wireless device; monitoring, at the tracking device connected to and different from the wireless network, information regarding the second data packet sent from the wireless device to the wireless network, wherein the information regarding the second data packet includes the identifier of the wireless device, the identifier of the first type of wireless service, and an amount of data included in the second data packet; determining second usage of the first type of wireless service based on the information regarding the second data packet; storing the second usage of the first type of wireless service for the wireless device; accumulating the first usage of the first type of wireless service and the second usage of the first type of wireless service as a total usage of the first type of wireless service for the wireless device; and storing the total usage of the first type of wireless service for the wireless device, wherein the identifier of the first type of wireless service is included in the first data packet and the second data packet.