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System and Methods for Time Dependent Internet Pricing

  • US 20130226669A1
  • Filed: 02/28/2013
  • Published: 08/29/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2012
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A system and methods of enabling, optimizing, and leveraging time-dependent pricing for mobile data traffic in wireless and wireline networks, wherein the system comprises:

  • (i) a price-optimization computational module that takes in historical and current network congestion and historical and predicted user reactions to compute the best time-dependent prices for a plurality of upcoming timeslots so as to minimize the total cost incurred to the wireless network operator,(ii) a user profiling module that takes in user reaction data to characterize a model of how much traffic each user s application will be willing to defer to a later point in time under a given pricing incentive,(iii) a user interface module that displays the computed prices that vary over time, so that a user, or an automatic agent acting on behalf of the user, can choose which time it should use a certain amount of mobile data,(iv) a network measurement module that collects the actual traffic coming from each application, or a group of applications, from each user and device, over each period of time.

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