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Secure and trusted device-based billing and charging process using privilege for network proxy authentication and audit

  • US 10,282,719 B1
  • Filed: 11/12/2015
  • Issued: 05/07/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A user equipment with a primary identifier and a secondary identifier, comprising:

  • a memory;

    a processor; and

    a witness application stored in the memory, that when executed by the processor in a trusted security zone, wherein the trusted security zone provides hardware assisted trust,monitors communication service consumption of a plurality of different communication services associated with each of the primary identifier and the secondary identifier of the user equipment,stores a plurality of logs of communication service consumption differentiated by identifier in the trusted security zone, andtransmits a message comprising the logs of the communication service consumption to a server in a network of a service provider associated with the user equipment using a trusted end-to-end communication channel, wherein the logs are translated by the server to a format compatible with a billing data store supported by a billing server, wherein the translated logs are transmitted to the billing data store, wherein a bill is created for each of the primary identifier based on the monitored communication service consumption of the plurality of different communication services associated with the primary identifier and the secondary identifier based on the monitored communication service consumption of the plurality of different communication services associated with the secondary identifier by the billing server accessing the billing data store.

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