Alcatel Lucent

Shishir Modi

Ranjan Sharma

Brad Nicholas

Daniel Saker

Goutam Sinha

Nathalie Charton

Sridhar Sripathi

A method for managing a Sponsored Data Plan (SDP) is provided in a mobile telecommunications network. The method includes: receiving a first request for an initial charging policy report in response to a detection of a user's data session with an Application Server (AS) () of a content provider; sending, in response to the first request, the requested initial charging policy report toward a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) () such that the PCRF () selects a first Policy Charging Control Rule (PCC-Rule) in accordance with the report for enforcement at a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF); receiving a second request to perform an online subscription of the user to the SDP; and sending, in response to the second request, information about the SDP toward the PCRF () such that the PCRF () selects a second PCC-Rule in accordance with the information for enforcement at the PCEF.

Sponsored data plan management

A method is provided for altering content of a webpage served from a content provider's server (). The method includes: receiving a data request at a proxy server () over a wireless telecommunication network (), the data request being initiated by a mobile device () served by the wireless network (); forwarding the request from the proxy server () to the content provider's server () over the Internet () such that the content provider's server () returns a webpage with original content contained therein in response to the forwarded request; receiving the returned webpage at the proxy server (); altering the original content of the webpage received by the proxy server (); and, forwarding the webpage with the altered content to the mobile device () initiating the data request.

Targeted mobile content insertion and/or replacement

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Pickerington, OH, United States of America

Shishir Modi