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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2022
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Howard Lang, Wayside, NJ (US);
Joseph Soryal, Glendale, NY (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a plurality of accounting nodes, each accounting node being associated with a service node of a communication network, each accounting node being configured to collect data usage information for a network segment of the communication network including an associated service node, and an accounting server in data communication with accounting nodes of the plurality of accounting nodes, the accounting server configured to receive from the accounting nodes the data usage information for each service node and determine billing for data usage of each network segment. Other embodiments are disclosed.