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Device-assisted services for protecting network capacity

  • US 10,848,330 B2
  • Filed: 08/21/2017
  • Issued: 11/24/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A wireless end-user device, comprising:

  • a plurality of wireless modems, each to perform data communication for Internet service activities over one or more wireless networks; and

    one or more processors configured toclassify each of a plurality of wireless end-user device network service activities into one of a plurality of categories, the categories includingcontrolled network service activities,disallowed network service activities, the classification of an activity as a disallowed network service activity, for at least some activities, based at least in part on a user-configurable setting for each of a plurality of wireless end-user device applications, andnon-controlled network service activities, the classification of an activity as a non-controlled network service activity, for at least some activities, based at least in part on whether such activity is associated with an application that is interacting with a user of the wireless end-user device, andcontrol Internet data access currently available via the wireless end-user device enabling access through one or more of the wireless modems todisallow Internet data access for disallowed network service activities,allow Internet data access for non-controlled network service activities, andregulate intermittent Internet data access for controlled network service activities, the intermittent Internet data access regulated by the one or more processors to coincide with temporally spaced times during which the one or more of the wireless modems are allowed by the wireless end-user device to connect to a wireless network,wherein classifying one or more of the wireless end-user device network service activities into at least one of a controlled network service activity category and a disallowed network service activity category is based at least in part on one or more of wireless end-user device inactivity, lack of user interaction with the wireless end-user device, or lack of user input, for a period of time.

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