Patent ID: 8818327
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: determining, by one or more servers, a voice call minutes quota and/or a data usage quota; monitoring, by the one or more servers, voice call minutes relative to the voice call minutes quota and/or data usage relative to the data usage quota; determining, by the one or more servers, that the voice call minutes are exhausted when the voice call minutes used meets the voice call minutes quota and/or that the data usage is exhausted when the data usage meets the data usage quota; sending, by a first of the one or more servers via a dedicated direct signaling interface, a signal regarding the exhaustion of the voice call minutes quota and/or the data usage quota to a second of the one or more servers; and performing, by the second of the one or more servers and based on the signal sent via the dedicated direct signaling interface, a status setting on an account, associated with the subscriber, to indicate that the subscriber is unavailable when the voice call minutes quota and/or the data usage quota has been exhausted.