Adaptive ambient services
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- inspecting a traffic flow associated with an end-user device;
identifying a requested access within the traffic flow;
determining, based on a set of one or more access rules, whether the requested access is within a service profile associated with a first service available to the end-user device over a wireless network, the service profile identifying a particular network destination, a particular application on the end-user device, a particular content type, or a combination of these, a first service usage associated with the first service being accounted for separately from a second service usage associated with at least one other service available to the end-user device over the wireless network; and
if the requested access is within the service profile, creating or modifying a record, the record for assisting in accounting for at least a portion of a measure of the first service usage to a sponsor entity responsible for paying for or subsidizing at least a portion of the first service usage, the sponsor entity being an entity other than a user or subscriber associated with the end-user device,wherein determining, based on the set of one or more access rules, whether the requested access is within the service profile comprises determining whether the requested access is associated with the first service.
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Abstract
A method comprising inspecting a traffic flow associated with a device; identifying a requested access within the traffic flow; determining, based on one or more rules, whether the requested access is within a profile associated with a first service available to the device over a wireless network, the profile identifying a network destination, an application on the device, or a content type, a first usage associated with the service being accounted for separately from a second usage associated with a second service available to the device; and if the requested access is within the profile, creating or modifying a record for assisting in accounting for a measure of the first usage to a sponsor entity responsible for at least subsidizing at least a portion of the first usage, wherein determining whether the requested access is within the profile comprises determining whether the requested access is associated with the service.
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30 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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inspecting a traffic flow associated with an end-user device; identifying a requested access within the traffic flow; determining, based on a set of one or more access rules, whether the requested access is within a service profile associated with a first service available to the end-user device over a wireless network, the service profile identifying a particular network destination, a particular application on the end-user device, a particular content type, or a combination of these, a first service usage associated with the first service being accounted for separately from a second service usage associated with at least one other service available to the end-user device over the wireless network; and if the requested access is within the service profile, creating or modifying a record, the record for assisting in accounting for at least a portion of a measure of the first service usage to a sponsor entity responsible for paying for or subsidizing at least a portion of the first service usage, the sponsor entity being an entity other than a user or subscriber associated with the end-user device, wherein determining, based on the set of one or more access rules, whether the requested access is within the service profile comprises determining whether the requested access is associated with the first service. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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