At&t Intellectual Property I, LP

At&t Mobility Ii LLC

Gus Bourg

Qingmin Hu

Terry Figurelle

Jie McKnight

Jeffrey Dean Hjort

Daniel P Malee

Brian Keller

Gregory Herrera

Laury Ann Wills

Marcel Theodore Rivard

Scott Young

Jonathan Genz

Maryann Haslestad

Diane Didio

George Alto

Richard J Mnich

Mildred Roman

Kiran Banoor

Shilpa Subramaniam

A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for transmitting signaling information within payload traffic. The method parses a certificate received from a service provider to obtain service imprint information associated with a mobile service, inserts a service control parameter derived from the service imprint information into a packet header, and forwards the packet header within payload traffic to a policy charging and enforcing function.

Dynamic in-band service control mechanism in mobile network

A method includes receiving input during execution of a first application at an electronic device. The input indicates that data usage of the electronic device is to be billed to a first data usage account of a plurality of data usage accounts associated with the electronic device. The method further includes generating a request during execution of a second application at the electronic device. The method also includes, based on the input, encapsulating, by the electronic device, the request to generate an encapsulated request that identifies a destination endpoint provisioned for the first data usage account. The method further includes transmitting the encapsulated request from the electronic device to a network element.

Systems and methods of split billing

A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for transmitting signaling information within payload traffic. For example, the method parses a certificate received from a service provider to obtain service imprint information associated with a mobile service, inserts a service control parameter derived from the service imprint information into a packet header, and forwards the packet header within payload traffic to a policy charging and enforcing function.

A method includes generating a request at an electronic device associated with a plurality of data usage accounts. The method also includes selectively encapsulating, by the electronic device, the request to generate an encapsulated request that identifies a destination endpoint provisioned for a first data usage account of the plurality of data usage accounts. The method further includes transmitting the encapsulated request from the electronic device to a network element.

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Gus Bourg