Patent ID: 8437736

Claim:
A computer-readable storage device encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that if executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising: receiving a policy from a wireless carrier, wherein the policy specifies a data usage threshold allotted by the wireless carrier for data transferred over a wireless carrier network during a predetermined period of time; determining an amount of data that has been transferred by the mobile device over the wireless carrier network at a particular time during the predetermined period of time; determining a prorated amount of the data usage threshold corresponding to the particular time during the predetermined period of time; selecting a non-zero, minimum notification amount; determining that the amount of data that has been transferred by the mobile device over the wireless carrier network at the particular time during the predetermined period of time exceeds the prorated amount of the data usage threshold corresponding to the particular time by the minimum notification amount; and providing a notification that the bandwidth of the mobile device will be throttled, based on determining that the amount of data that has been transferred by the mobile device over the wireless carrier network at the particular time during the predetermined period of time exceeds the prorated amount of the data usage threshold corresponding to the particular time by the minimum notification amount.