Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Jolly Lal

Barry F Hoffner

Marc Chiaverini

Ratul Kumar Guha

Lixia Yan

Scott Anthony Townley

Javier Alejandro Ferro

Bhaskar Srinivasiah

Christopher M Perry

Mamadou Mamoune Niang

Uma Venkata Raman

Luke D VonFeldt

Mark Gilbert

Mark Andrews

Hiywote Demisse

Romeo R Tan

Jonathan B Ofri

Jeremy P Bolton

Alexis Polanco, Jr

Hans Raj Nahata

Muthukumar Retnasamy

Madhan Muralimanohar

A real-time network consumption tracking service is provided. A charging function (CHF) device receives transaction records of network consumption by user equipment (UE) devices in a wireless network and generates individual event messages based on each of the transaction records. Each of the individual event messages includes a detailed record based on one of the transaction records. The CHF device associates each of the individual event messages with a message bus topic, formats each of the individual event messages for publication on the message bus, and publishes each of the formatted individual event messages to the message bus. The message bus is accessible to external systems that generate dynamic network consumption data sets based on the formatted individual event messages.

Enhanced real-time network consumption tracking for wireless networks

A method may include determining a number of user devices that can access data services in a wireless network and storing information identifying the determined number of user devices for each of a number of sectors for each of a number of periods of time. The method may also include receiving a request from a first user device associated with a first user for access to data services during a first period of time, accessing the stored information to determine whether to grant the request and providing access to data services via the wireless network to the first user device. The method may further include excluding data usage by the first user device during the first period of time from being applied against a data limit associated with the user's data plan.

Tracking data usage in wireless networks

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