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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Gil Zalmanovitch, Seattle, WA (US);
Gregory James Scott, Seattle, WA (US);
Shai Guday, Redmond, WA (US);
Alec Garvin Kwok, Redmond, WA (US);
Yue Jiang, Redmond, WA (US);
Kenneth Vincent Ma, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments enable data usage plans and data usage statistics to be shared among user computing devices. In some embodiments, a web service receives a schema populated with data describing the data usage plan from a mobile operator. The web service distributes the populated schema to the user computing devices, and subsequently distributes updated portions of the schema as the data usage plan is updated by the mobile operator. The web service may also collect the data usage statistics from the user computing devices and the mobile operator, reconcile any differences, and send synchronization notifications to the user computing devices based on the reconciliation. In some embodiments, users are able to view bandwidth consumption by a plurality of user computing devices sharing the same data usage plan.