SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING BILLING EVENTS IN A MOBILE WIRELESS NETWORK FOR A NETWORK OPERATOR

• US 20150011184A1
• Filed: 08/25/2014
• Published: 01/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seven Networks LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Seven Networks Inc
• Inventors: Sutaria, Jay, Nanjundeswaran, Sridhar, Gustafson, Brian, Gent, Robert van
• Application Number:
  US14/468,265
• Publication Number:
  US 20150011184A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/408
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1428 Invoice generation, e.g. customization, lay-out, database processing, algorithms for calculating the bill or formatting invoices as WWW pages invoicing in general G06Q30/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/43 Billing software details
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/44 Augmented, consolidated or itemized billing statement or bill presentation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/8278 Event based
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing

Abstract

A system and method for tracking billing events in a mobile wireless network for a network operator is disclosed. The method can include, in one embodiment, capturing, by a server, event data associated with a mobile device. The event data specifies communication events at the mobile device and are captured are specific to a network operator which provides services to the mobile device. The method can further include, generating billing data for the mobile device using the event data and associated parameters, and providing, by the server, the billing data to the network operator providing services to the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method for tracking billing events in a mobile wireless network, the method, comprising:

capturing, by a server, event data having communications events and the event data is associated with a mobile device and specific to a network operator providing services to the mobile device;

generating billing data for the mobile device using the event data and associated parameters; and

providing, by the server, the billing data to the network operator providing services to the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, event data is captured for multiple mobile devices serviced by different network operators;

wherein, for each different network operator, billing data is formatted to be compatible with each particular network operator.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, the billing data is provided to the network operator in a batch.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, the billing data is provided to the network operator in real-time.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein, the event data is formatted to be used with custom queries of the network operator.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising, formatting the event data to be delivered to the network operator.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising, generating an aggregated event stream from the event data;

wherein, the aggregated event stream is formatted for a custom query of the network operator.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising, generating a standard report using the aggregated event stream to be provided to the network operator.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein, the standard report identifies a number total requests made by the mobile device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein, the number of total requests is categorized by one or more of service, and time.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein, the standard report identifies session based data including, one or more of, number of sessions, durations of user sessions.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein, the session based data is categorized by, one or more of, device, time, and date.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein, the billing report enables the network operator to bill a subscriber based on number of sessions or how long the mobile device is connected to the network.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein, the billing report enables the network operator to bill the subscriber of the mobile device based on transferred file size.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein, the associated parameters of the event data include identifiers of file types of files transferred in the communication sessions at the mobile device which enables the network operator to bill the subscriber to access different file types.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein, the different file types include, one or more of, MPEG, JPEG, electronically editable documents, and PDF.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the event data is categorized into service-based billing reports that identify different services used by the mobile device.

18. A method for tracking billing events in a mobile wireless network, the method, comprising:

capturing event data associated with a mobile device where the event data specifies communication events at the mobile device and is selected to be captured are specific to a service provider of an account accessed using the mobile device;

generating billing data for the mobile device using the event data and associated parameters; and

providing, by the server, the billing data to a network operator providing services to the mobile device.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein, the event data is captured by a mobile client on the mobile device, wherein, the billing data is generated by the mobile client.

20. A system for tracking billing events in a mobile wireless network, the system, comprising:

a data capturing module associated with a mobile device;

wherein, the event data specifies communication events at the mobile device;

a billing data generation module that generates billing data for the mobile device using the event data and associated parameters;

an aggregated event generating module that generates an aggregated event stream from the event data;

wherein, the aggregated event stream is generated according to, one or more of, user identifiers, event identifiers, service identifiers, or session identifiers;

a module that uses the aggregated event stream to perform trend analysis.