Enterprise Billing Allocation for Wireless Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current wireless communication networks face challenges in efficiently allocating enterprise and consumer billing for service usage activities, particularly in dual-purpose devices where employees use the same device for both enterprise and personal purposes, leading to difficulties in distinguishing and charging for enterprise-sponsored and personal service usage.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system that monitors service usage activities on wireless communication devices, classifies them as either enterprise or consumer usage, and provides a service design center to configure and enforce billing allocations, using both network-based and device-based techniques to ensure secure and accurate billing differentiation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If employees use the same device for both enterprise and personal purposes, then device versatility and ease of operation are improved, but billing allocation accuracy and measurement precision deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments service usage into distinct categories by implementing classification mechanisms that separate enterprise-sponsored usage from personal usage. The system divides billing allocations into different buckets based on service type, device usage context, and account associations, enabling precise measurement and separate charging for each segment of usage activity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces intermediary classification mechanisms and service design centers that act as mediators between the dual-purpose device usage and the billing system. These intermediaries capture usage context, classify services appropriately, and enforce billing rules, thereby resolving the conflict between versatile device usage and accurate billing allocation.
2Measurement precision
If a classification system is implemented to distinguish enterprise and consumer usage, then billing allocation accuracy is improved, but device complexity and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements universal classification mechanisms and service design centers that can handle multiple service types, device configurations, and billing scenarios through a single unified system. The classification system is designed to be multi-functional, accommodating various enterprise and consumer services without requiring separate specialized systems for each case.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables self-service classification capabilities where the system automatically categorizes service usage based on pre-configured rules, service identifiers, and usage context. The classification mechanisms operate autonomously to distinguish enterprise from personal usage without requiring manual intervention, thereby reducing operational complexity while maintaining high billing accuracy.
3Reliability
If network-based and device-based techniques are used for monitoring and classification, then billing accuracy and reliability are improved, but device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges network-based monitoring capabilities with device-based classification functions into an integrated billing allocation system. The service design center combines network-level service identification with device-level usage context capture, creating a unified approach that leverages the strengths of both network and device components while distributing processing requirements across the network infrastructure.
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AI summary
Enterprise and consumer billing allocation for wireless communication device service usage activities is provided. In some embodiments, enterprise and consumer billing allocation for wireless communication device service usage activities includes: monitoring a service usage activity of a wireless communication device, and determining an enterprise and consumer billing allocation for the monitored service usage activity; reporting the monitored service usage activity to a network element, in which the network element determines an enterprise and consumer billing allocation for the monitored service usage activity; or providing a service design center for configuring an enterprise and consumer billing allocation of monitored service usage activities for a plurality of wireless communication devices associated with an enterprise account, and implementing the configured enterprise and consumer billing allocation for monitored service usage activities for the plurality of wireless communication devices associated with the enterprise account.