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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 10, 2018
Applicants:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Cricket Wireless Llc, Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Sheldon Kent Meredith, Roswell, GA (US);

Justin McNamara, Dunwoody, GA (US);

Rajeev Garg, Frisco, TX (US);

Mark Austin, Allen, TX (US);

Assignees:

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);

Cricket Wireless LLC, Atlanta, GA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/06 (2009.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/06 (2013.01); H04L 43/16 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 28/0231 (2013.01); H04W 88/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining whether a past throughput of past traffic communicated between a communication device and a communication network meets a first threshold value, resulting in a first determination; responsive to the first determination being that the past throughput meets the first threshold, transmitting an instruction to the communication device to restrict a first subsequent throughput of first subsequent traffic to no greater than a second threshold value; determining whether the first subsequent throughput has been restricted, resulting in a second determination; and responsive to the second determination being that the first subsequent throughput has not been restricted, taking one or more actions to enforce a second subsequent throughput of second subsequent traffic to no greater than a third threshold value, wherein the third threshold value is lower than the second threshold value. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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