Patent ID: 8630617

Claim:
A method performed by a network system communicatively coupled to an end-user device via a wireless network, wherein the end-user device is a device configured to send or receive data over the wireless network, the method comprising: obtaining service usage information associated with the end-user device from one or more sources, wherein at least one of the one or more sources is the end-user device or a network source, the service usage information identifying one or more device activities of the end-user device and comprising a measure of usage of the wireless network associated with the one or more device activities; using one or more electronically-stored rules and the service usage information, generating first information and second information, the first information usable by an operator of the wireless network in providing, to a first entity, a first accounting of a first portion of the usage of the wireless network associated with the one or more device activities, the first entity being an entity other than a user of the end-user device and other than the operator of the wireless network, the second information usable by the operator of the wireless network in providing, to a second entity, a second accounting of at least a second portion of the usage of the wireless network associated with the one or more device activities; and providing the first information and the second information to a network element communicatively coupled to the network system in a syntax usable by the network element.