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Tracking data usage under a schematized data plan

  • US 8,977,231 B2
  • Filed: 12/20/2012
  • Issued: 03/10/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • a memory area associated with a mobile computing device, said memory area storing a schema representing a data usage plan associated with a user, the data usage plan describing threshold values associated with network connections of one or more computing devices of the user, the network connections being categorized based on types of network traffic data; and

    a processor programmed to;

    dynamically generate data usage statistics for the user, the data usage statistics representing network data consumed under the data usage plan by a mobile computing device, the data usage statistics being dynamically generated, at the mobile computing device, by collecting the network data consumed by a plurality of components of the mobile computing device;

    populate the schema stored in the memory area with the dynamically generated data usage statistics; and

    provide at least a portion of the populated schema to a web service for distribution to other computing devices of the user.

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