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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2023
T-mobile Innovations Llc, Overland Park, KS (US);
Robert Gary, Issaquah, WA (US);
Dan Hogberg, Redmond, WA (US);
Nicholas Lavassar, Issaquah, WA (US);
Christopher Painter, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
A method comprises obtaining a location of the device registered with a carrier network in association with a subscription account, wherein the subscription account comprises a home network subscription plan associated with a home network device registered with the carrier network, wherein the device is registered with the carrier network under a data plan separate from the home network subscription plan, determining a location of the home network device and a geographic zone around the home network device based on the device, and transmitting an instruction to a billing system in the carrier network to adapt the data plan associated with the device to a reduced billing rate when the location of the device is within the geographic zone around the home network device.