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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2014
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Cellco Partnership, Arlington, VA (US);
Phillip A. Ritter, Danville, CA (US);
Chris S. Neisinger, Danville, CA (US);
Barry F. Hoffner, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Cellco Partnership, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A third-party application, executing at a mobile device, may be provided with information describing congestion levels in a network, such as a cellular wireless network through which the mobile device connects. In one implementation, the third-party application may select, based on the information describing the congestion levels, a data flow, from a number of data flows, to use when communicating with a destination device, each of the data flows being associated with different quality of service (QoS) parameters and being associated with different charging rates. The mobile device may communicate, through a proxy server, and using the selected data flow, with the destination device. The communication with the destination device may be implemented using sponsored data that is not charged to an account associated with an owner of the mobile device.