Offer based provision of fee based network access

• US 9,563,907 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2013
• Issued: 02/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Vigo Software Ltd (GO2 Holdings Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Vigo Software Ltd (GO2 Holdings Ltd.)
• Inventors: Rukavitsa, Anatoly, Prokopenko, Anton, Kirakosyan, Artem, Kulikov, Denis
• Primary Examiner(s): Danneman, Paul
• Application Number:
  US13/917,232
• Publication Number:
  US 20140372267A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,335 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1485 Tariff-related aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0253 using browsers or web-pages for accessing management information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/18 Delegation of network management function, e.g. customer network management [CNM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5029 Service quality level-based billing, e.g. dependent on measured service level customer is charged more or less
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0847 Transmission error
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/087 Jitter
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/80 Rating or billing plans; Tariff determination aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/8016 based on quality of service [QoS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/82 Criteria or parameters used for performing billing operations

Abstract

Offer based provision of fee based network access is presented herein. An access component can provide a complementary access of first content of a network to a device without a per-access fee to a user account associated with the device. A monitor component can receive, from the device, a request for an alternate access of second content of the network that is different from the first content. The access component, based on a characteristic associated with the network determined to satisfy a defined condition with respect to the alternate access, can send an offer directed to the device for purchase of the alternate access with the per-access fee to the user account.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

at least one memory to store computer-executable instructions; and

at least one processor, communicatively coupled to the at least one memory, that facilitates execution of the computer-executable instructions to at least;

provide a complementary access of a first traffic type of a network to a device without a per-access fee to a user account associated with the device;

receive, from the device, a request for an alternate access of a second traffic type of the network;

determine, by a monitor component of the system, whether a present characteristic of the network comprising consumption of network traffic by a network device of the network satisfies a defined condition with respect to the alternate access of the second traffic type;

in response to the present characteristic of the network being determined to satisfy the defined condition with respect to the alternate access of the second traffic type, send an offer directed to the device for purchase of the alternate access of the second traffic type with the per-access fee to the user account; and

in response to the present characteristic of the network being determined not to satisfy the defined condition with respect to the alternate access of the second traffic type, withholding the offer, wherein the alternate access of the second traffic type is associated with a second data transfer rate that is greater than a first data transfer rate associated with the complementary access of the first traffic type.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor further facilitates the execution of the computer-executable instructions to, based on an input received from the device representing an acceptance of the offer, provide the alternate access to the device.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the at least one processor further facilitates the execution of the computer-executable instructions to apply the per-access fee to the user account.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first traffic type comprises at least one of text, a rich site summary feed, or an email.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the second traffic type comprises at least one of a video stream, an audio stream, or hypertext transfer protocol secure based information.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the first traffic type is associated with a first quality of service that is lower in quality than a second quality of service associated with the second traffic type.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the present characteristic comprises a rate of data transfer.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the offer is directed to the device via at least one of a plug-in of an Internet browser of the device or an application of an operating system of the device.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the present characteristic comprises at least one of a quality of service, a radio condition associated with the device, a utilization of a resource of a base station associated with the device, an amount of resources allocated to the base station, or a type of the resource allocated to the base station.

10. A method, comprising:

providing, by a system comprising a processor, a first access of a first type of traffic of a network to a device without a per-access fee to a user account associated with the device;

receiving, by the system, a request for a second access of a second type of traffic of the network from the device;

in response to determining, by the system, that a current characteristic of the network comprising consumption of network traffic by a network device of the network satisfies a defined condition with respect to the second access, sending, by the system, an offer directed to the device for purchase of the second access with the per-access fee to the user account; and

in response to determining, by the system, that the current characteristic of the network comprising the consumption of network traffic by the network device does not satisfy the defined condition with respect to the second access, withholding, by the system, the offer, wherein the first access is based on a first data rate that is less than a second data rate of the second access.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

in response to receiving an input from the device representing an acceptance of the offer, providing, by the system, the second access to the device.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

charging, by the system, the per-access fee to the user account.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the providing the second access comprises:

providing access to at least one of a video stream, an audio steam, or hypertext transfer protocol secure based information.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the sending comprises:

sending the offer directed to the device via at least one of a plug-in of an Internet browser of the device or an application of an operating system of the device.

15. The method of claim 10, where the determining that the current characteristic of the network satisfies the defined condition further comprises:

determining, by the system, whether at least one of a rate of data transfer, a quality of service, a radio condition associated with the device, a utilization of a resource of a base station associated with the device, an amount of resources allocated to the base station, or a type of the resource allocated to the base station satisfies the defined condition.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the providing the first access comprises:

providing access to at least one of text, a rich site summary feed, or an email.

17. A computer-readable storage medium comprising computer executable components that, in response to execution, cause a computing system comprising a processor to perform operations, comprising:

providing, based on a first data rate, an initial access of a first traffic type of a network to a device without a fee to a user account associated with the device;

receiving a request from the device for a substitute access, based on a second data rate, of a second traffic type of the network;

in response to determining, by a monitor component of the computing system, that a consumption of network traffic by a network device of the network satisfies a defined condition with respect to the substitute access, sending an offer directed to the device for purchase of the substitute access with the fee to the user account; and

in response to determining that the consumption of the network traffic by the network device does not satisfy the defined condition with respect to the substitute access, withholding the offer, wherein the second data rate is higher than the first data rate.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to receiving an input from the device representing an acceptance of the offer, providing, based on the second data rate, the substitute access to the device.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise:

charging the fee to the user account.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the sending the offer comprises sending the offer directed to the device via at least one of a plug-in of an Internet browser of the device or an application of an operating system of the device.