ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,818, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).
"Systems and methods for network usage monitoring" was invented by Lixia Yan (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Barry F. Hoffner (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Javier A. Ferro (Somerset, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving, by a charging function (CHF), a data usage monitoring request associated with use of an application, wherein the data usage monitoring request identifies a data usage threshold. The method may also include transmitting, by the CHF and to a session management function (SMF) or a user plane function (UPF), ...