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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2006
Applicants:
Kuntal Chowdhury, Plano, TX (US);
Shaji E. Radhakrishnan, Nashua, NH (US);
Inventors:
Kuntal Chowdhury, Plano, TX (US);
Shaji E. Radhakrishnan, Nashua, NH (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 11/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04B 7/216 (2006.01); H04M 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems and methods for measuring and reporting prepaid service usage are provided. More particularly, monitoring and reporting packet data session usage for purposes of charging for service usage are provided. In some embodiments, layer-3 data packet monitoring is used to determine usage. In other embodiments, the start and end of a packet data session are used to determine usage. The usage can be determined from the duration of the packet data session or from the size or amount of packets sent and received by a mobile node.