Patent ID: 7340242

Claim:
A method for measuring by a terminal a service data amount received or transmitted at a terminal equipment (TE) comprising: monitoring at a mobile communications terminal, packets received or transmitted between a terminal equipment (TE) and a network to determine when a monitored received or transmitted packet corresponds to a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) control packet; determining at the mobile communications terminal whether a control protocol setup state of the TE is established when the monitored received or transmitted packet corresponds to the PPP control packet; in response to the mobile communications terminal determining that the setup state of the TE is established, cumulatively counting at the mobile communications terminal a number of all packets, excluding packets added during a protocol stack setting process, received or transmitted until every protocol session of the TE is released, wherein the determining of the TE being established indicates a start point of the cumulatively counting, the counting allowing the mobile communications terminal to determine a service data amount received or transmitted at the TE; and displaying the number of counted packets on a display of the mobile communications terminal, the counted packets displayed on the terminal including only data in a payload of a transmission control protocol layer, wherein the monitoring and the counting are performed by the mobile communications terminal during a call connection networking between the TE and the network.