US2012208495A1PendingUtilityA1

System and method for monitoring account usage on a platform

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Individually held — no corporate assignee on recordPriority: Jun 23, 2010Filed: Jun 23, 2011Published: Aug 16, 2012
Est. expiryJun 23, 2030(~3.9 yrs left)· nominal 20-yr term from priority
Inventors:Jeffrey LawsonJohn WolthuisEvan Cooke
H04L 12/1446H04W 4/24H04M 15/77H04L 12/1403H04M 15/8278
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Abstract

A system and method for monitoring account usage on a platform that includes creating an account on a platform; assigning a usage model of the account; running an application of the account on the platform; monitoring usage of the application of the account; identifying a usage event of the usage model in the monitored usage; and generating an event response based on the usage event.

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1 . A method for monitoring account usage on a platform comprising:
 creating an account on a platform;   assigning a usage model to an application of the account;   running the application of the account on the platform;   the platform monitoring usage of the application of the account;   identifying a usage event of the usage model in the monitored usage; and   generating an event response based on the usage event.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the platform is a telecommunications platform. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein identifying the usage event includes detecting when a usage parameter passes a usage threshold that is set through the usage model. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein identifying the usage event includes detecting a pattern of application execution. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein generating a usage event includes deactivating usage by the account. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein generating a usage event includes sending a notification to an account holder. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein generating a usage event includes automatically billing a user account for more usage. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein generating a usage event includes messaging a URI specified for the usage event. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 8 , wherein the URI specified for the usage event directs application control to a billing application. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 8 , wherein the URI specified for a usage event activates a notification application. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 2  wherein the usage event is dependent on a time-rate based parameter for sessions with the application. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the usage event is dependent on a time span of allowed usage of the application. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the usage event is dependent on a data-use based parameter. 
     
     
         14 . A method for monitoring account usage on a platform
 creating a parent account on a platform;   creating a sub-account of the parent account;   assigning a usage model to an application of at least the sub-account;   running the application of the sub-account on the platform;   monitoring usage of the application of the sub-account;   identifying a usage event of the usage model in the monitored usage; and   generating an event response based on the usage event.   
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 14 , wherein the platform is a telecommunications platform. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 15 , wherein the parent account has at least two sub-accounts and a unique usage model is assigned to each sub-account. 
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 15 , further comprising assigning a usage model to the parent account, and wherein generating an event response based on the usage event includes activating a billing process and transferring funds to an entity. 
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 17 , wherein the transferred funds are dependent on the difference in the sub-account usage model and the parent account usage model. 
     
     
         19 . A system for monitoring account usage on a platform comprising:
 an application platform that runs an application and that includes
 an account system including a plurality of account resources with a usage model, wherein the usage model includes at least one usage event parameter; and 
 a usage monitoring engine configured for processing usage of an application of an account; and 
   a platform application programming interface (API) that interfaces with account resources and usage models of the application platform.   
     
     
         20 . The system of  claim 19 , wherein the application platform is a telecommunications platform. 
     
     
         21 . The system of  claim 20 , wherein the application platform includes a billing engine for processing transactions triggered through the usage monitoring engine. 
     
     
         22 . The system of  claim 20 , wherein the plurality of account resources includes a parent account resource that includes a plurality of sub-account resources, wherein the sub-account resources have access to an instance of an application of the parent account resource.

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