Patent ID: 8868455

Claim:
A method comprising: inspecting a traffic flow associated with an end-user device; identifying a requested access within the traffic flow; determining, based on a first set of access rules, whether the requested access is within a first network data service profile, the first network data service profile defining a first network data service, a first service usage associated with the first network data service being accounted for separately from a second service usage associated with at least a second network data service available to the end-user device, the first network data service profile identifying a particular network end-point, a particular end-user-device application, a particular content type, or a combination of these; and if the requested access is within the first network data service profile, creating or modifying a first record, the first record for assisting in providing an accounting of at least a portion of the first service usage to a first paying entity responsible for subsidizing or paying for the at least a portion of the first service usage.