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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2012
Gregory G Raleigh, Woodside, CA (US);
Rob Rightmyer, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vladislav Kudelin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Gregory G Raleigh, Woodside, CA (US);
Rob Rightmyer, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vladislav Kudelin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Headwater Partners I LLC, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A method comprising inspecting a traffic flow associated with a device; identifying a requested access within the traffic flow; determining, based on a set of access rules, whether the requested access is within a service profile, the service profile defining a first data service, a first service usage associated with the first data service being accounted for separately from a second service usage associated with at least a second data service available to the device, the service profile identifying a particular network end-point, a particular end-user-device application, a particular content type, or a combination of these; and if the requested access is within the service profile, creating or modifying a record, the record for assisting in providing an accounting of at least a portion of the first service usage to a paying entity responsible for subsidizing or paying for the at least a portion of the first service usage.