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Mobile device-based bandwidth throttling

  • US 8,285,250 B2
  • Filed: 10/27/2011
  • Issued: 10/09/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A mobile device comprising:

  • one or more processors; and

    a computer-readable medium coupled to the one or more processors having instructions stored thereon which, if executed by the one or more processors, cause the mobile device to perform operations comprising;

    receiving a policy from a wireless carrier that specifies one or more data usage thresholds allotted by the wireless carrier for data transferred over a wireless carrier network during a predetermined period of time;

    determining an amount of data that has been transferred by the mobile device over the wireless carrier network during the predetermined period of time;

    determining that the amount exceeds one or more of the data usage thresholds;

    throttling the bandwidth of the mobile device over the wireless carrier network based on determining that the amount exceeds one or more of the data usage thresholds;

    determining a first value representing a percentage of one or more of the data usage thresholds that has been used by the mobile device during the predetermined period of time;

    determining a second value representing a percentage of the predetermined period of time that has elapsed;

    determining that the first value is outside of a predetermined range from the second value; and

    displaying a warning based on determining that the first value is outside of a predetermined range from the second value.

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