Notification of charging rate adjustments in regions of a mobile network to control bandwidth usage in the regions

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9641696
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14302267

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Systems and methods are disclosed that notify end users of mobile devices of charging rate adjustments within a mobile network. A rate notification system receives bandwidth usage data for the mobile network, and identifies a region within the mobile network having a bandwidth usage that exceeds a threshold. The bandwidth usage is processed per media type (i.e., voice calls, text messages, etc) based on the bandwidth usage data. The rate notification system then identifies a mobile device located within the region, and identifies one or more contacts of the end user of the mobile device. The rate notification system then identifies an adjusted charging rate per contact per media type for this end user, and provides the adjusted charging rates to the end user of the mobile device.

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  • ALCATEL LUCENT;ALCATEL-LUCENT USA INC.;LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INVESTMENT CO., LTD.;PROVENANCE ASSET GROUP LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Cai, Yigang Naperville, US 335 6490
Li, Xiangyang Beijing, CN 122 1395

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