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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2012
Umashankar Velusamy, Tampa, FL (US);
Bhaskar R. Gudlavenkatasiva, Tampa, FL (US);
George L. Hughes, Jr., Wesley Chapel, FL (US);
Nityanand Sharma, Tampa, FL (US);
Umashankar Velusamy, Tampa, FL (US);
Bhaskar R. Gudlavenkatasiva, Tampa, FL (US);
George L. Hughes, Jr., Wesley Chapel, FL (US);
Nityanand Sharma, Tampa, FL (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions executable by at least one processor, the instructions to cause the at least one processor to bill a subscriber, enrolled in a multi-tiered pricing plan, a plan fee associated with the multi-tiered pricing plan, for each billing cycle of a plurality of billing cycles, for services associated with a subscriber device; track, for each billing cycle, an amount of usage of the services; determine, for each billing cycle, a pricing tier corresponding to the tracked usage; and bill the subscriber, for each billing cycle, a fee associated with the corresponding pricing tier, wherein at least two of the corresponding pricing tiers differ.