Patent ID: 8856213

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a server device and from a content provider, traffic associated with a data service and that is destined for a plurality of user devices; retrieving, from a memory associated with the server device, service information, associated with the data service, where the service information includes a value, associated with the data service, that represents a level of service quality associated with the data service; determining, by the server device, that the data service is an approved data service in response to determining that the value associated with the data service is equal to or above a threshold; discarding, by the server device, the traffic in response to determining that the value is less than the threshold; processing, by the server device, the traffic to identify whether a condition is associated with the traffic based on the determination that the data service is an approved data service; transmitting the traffic to one or more of the plurality of user devices based on a determination that the traffic is not associated with the condition; and discarding, by the server device, the traffic based on a determination that the traffic is associated with the condition.