Techniques and systems for on-demand customized mobile data services

• US 9,603,059 B2
• Filed: 06/26/2015
• Issued: 03/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Vuornos, Lauri Jaakko, Hjelt, Joonas Emil
• Primary Examiner(s): Sarwar, Babar
• Application Number:
  US14/752,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20160381603A1
• Time in Patent Office: 634 Days
• Field of Search: 455/404.2, 455/406, 455410-411, 4554121-4142, 455418-4221, 455/566, 455/466, 455/550.1, 4554561-457
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1432 Metric aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/43 Billing software details
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/58 based on statistics of usage or network monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/66 Policy and charging system
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/20 Negotiating bandwidth
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing

Abstract

Techniques for generating and providing on-demand customized mobile data services are described. A technique may include receiving application usage data at a data package service; analyzing the application usage data to obtain analyzed data; designing one or more data service packages according to the analyzed data, each data service package to define a set of parameters to manage access to a cellular data network; presenting one or more data service packages to a client device; receiving a selection of a data service package from the client device; and uploading a policy associated with the selected data service package to a data access server. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving application usage data at a data package service;

analyzing the application usage data to obtain analyzed data;

dynamically designing one or more data service packages according to the analyzed data, each data service package to define a set of parameters to manage access to a cellular data network, the dynamically designing performed by the data package service that is distinct from a client device that originated the application usage data, the dynamically designing comprising;

designing a data service package including a specified amount of data usage for an application;

designing a data service package including a specified amount of data usage for a duration of time by any application;

or

designing a data service package including a specified amount of data usage for a plurality of applications;

transmitting, from the data package service, one or more data service packages to the client device distinct from the data package service;

receiving a selection of a data service package from the client device; and

uploading a policy associated with the selected data service package to a data access server, the uploading causing the data access server to provide access to data according to the data service package.

2. The method of claim 1, the application usage data to comprise an application identifier parameter, a network usage parameter, a data endpoint parameter, an application sequence parameter, a frequency parameter, or a duration parameter.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising:

receiving operator data from a cellular data network operator; and

designing one or more data service packages according to the operator data.

4. The method of claim 1, comprising:

receiving a request from the data access server for a data service package for a client device;

accessing the analyzed data for the client device;

selecting one or more data service packages for the client device according to the analyzed data for the client device; and

transmitting the selected one or more data service packages to the client device.

5. The method of claim 4, comprising:

receiving a device context with the request from the data access server; and

selecting one or more data service packages for the client device according to at least one of the analyzed data for the client device or the device context.

6. The method of claim 1, the analyzed data to comprise a determination of an application used by a highest number of client devices, an application used for a longest average duration by a plurality of client devices, an average amount of network data usage per application across a plurality of client devices, a set of other applications used in sequence with an application on a plurality of client devices, or a common time of day of use of an application across a plurality of client devices.

7. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor circuit;

a memory for storing one or more components for execution by the processor circuit;

a data package service for execution by the processor circuit to generate data service packages for client devices, the data package service comprising;

a client data analyzer component to receive application usage data from a set of client devices and analyze the application usage data;

a package generator component to dynamically design one or more data service packages based on the analyzed data, each data service package to define a set of parameters to manage access to a cellular data network, the dynamically designing performed by the data package service that is distinct from set of the client devices that originated the application usage data, the dynamically designing comprising;

designing a data service package including a specified amount of data usage for an application;

designing a data service package including a specified amount of data usage for a duration of time by any application;

or

designing a data service package including a specified amount of data usage for a plurality of applications; and

an offer interface component to receive a request for access to the cellular data network by a client device, transmit, from the data package service, a set of data service packages to the client device distinct from the data package service in response to the request, receive a data service package selection, and send a policy to a data access server to allow the client device to access the cellular data network in accordance with the data service package selection.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, comprising:

an operator interface component operative on the processor circuit to receive operator data from a cellular data network operator; and

the package generator component operative to design one or more data service packages according to the operator data.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein a policy associated with a data service package comprises parameters that define when the client device can access the cellular data network.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein a policy parameter specifies an application that can access the cellular data network, a group of applications that can access the cellular data network, a duration of access, a time of day of access, an amount of data transfer, or a day of the week of access.

11. The apparatus of claim 7, the offer interface component operative to receive a device context with the request for a data service package;

and to select one or more data service packages for the client device according to at least one of the analyzed data for the client device or the device context.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the device context includes what application is in the foreground on the client device at the time of the request, what data end point an application on the client device is attempting to access, or a time of day of the request.

13. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a system to:

dynamically design one or more data service packages according to analyzed data about application use on one or more client devices, the dynamically designing performed by a data package service that is distinct from the one or more client devices that originated the application usage data, the dynamically designing comprising;

designing a data service package including a specified amount of data usage for an application;

designing a data service package including a specified amount of data usage for a duration of time by any application;

or

designing a data service package including a specified amount of data usage for a plurality of applications;

select one or more data service packages for the client device according to the analyzed data;

transmit, from the data package service the selected one or more data service packages to a client device distinct from the data package service;

receive a client selection of one of the one or more data service packages from the client device;

generate a policy associated with the client selection; and

cause the system to forward the policy to a data access server to allow the client device to access a cellular data network in accordance with the data service package selection.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the system to:

receive application usage data from one or more client devices; and

analyze the data to obtain the analyzed data.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the system to:

receive operator data from a cellular data network operator; and

design one or more data service packages according to the operator data.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein a policy associated with a data service package comprises parameters that define when the client device can access a cellular data network.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the system to:

receive a request for a data service package and a device context for a client device; and

select one or more data service packages for the client device according to at least one of the analyzed data for the client device or the device context.