Patent ID: 8331901

Claim:
An end-user device, comprising: a modem for enabling the end-user device to access available network data services over an access network; one or more available applications for accessing the available network data services; memory configured to store one or more end-user-device sponsored-service policy instructions associated with a class of one or more sponsored services, the class of one or more sponsored services including at least one of a set of available network data services less than all available network data services; or a set of available applications less than all available applications, wherein the end-user-device sponsored-service policy instructions enable a sponsor entity to subsidize an access network usage cost or usage measure associated with a use by the end-user device of a member of the class of one or more sponsored services; and one or more device agents configured to: identify a current use or requested use by the end-user device of the member of the class of one or more sponsored services; and in response to the end-user device's current use or requested us of the member of the class of one or more sponsored services, execute the one or more end-user-device sponsored-service policy instructions, thereby enabling the sponsor entity to subsidize the access network usage cost or usage measure.