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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2019
Applicant:
Tracfone Wireless, Inc., Miami, FL (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
TracFone Wireless, Inc., Miami, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/813 (2013.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/14 (2006.01); H04L 12/825 (2013.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04M 15/00 (2006.01); H04M 17/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/20 (2013.01); H04L 12/14 (2013.01); H04L 12/1435 (2013.01); H04L 12/1467 (2013.01); H04M 15/00 (2013.01); H04M 15/8214 (2013.01); H04M 15/83 (2013.01); H04M 15/85 (2013.01); H04M 15/852 (2013.01); H04M 15/854 (2013.01); H04M 15/88 (2013.01); H04M 15/882 (2013.01); H04M 17/02 (2013.01); H04L 47/25 (2013.01); H04W 28/0289 (2013.01);
Abstract
The disclosure provides a system and method for controlling on a wireless device the amount and speed of data transferred between a wireless device and the Internet, and a wireless device with a metering client that can throttle data speeds and types based on how much data a user has used. Specifically, the wireless device includes a metering client to track one of data usage or an amount of prepaid data available. When the metering client determines that the amount of data available has exceeded a pre-determined threshold, the wireless device inhibits further data transmission amounts and speeds.