Enterprise access control and accounting allocation for access networks
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. 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 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. In some embodiments, enterprise and consumer billing allocation for wireless communication device service usage activities includes 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.
1. A network system for providing network access service notification messages containing information about a network access activity of each of a plurality of wireless end-user devices, the network system comprising:
a first service design center configured to:
provide a respective secure user interface for each of a plurality of enterprise network administrators, the respective secure user interface allowing each enterprise network administrator to define a respective device group list, each device group list identifying device credentials for a plurality of the wireless end-user devices associated with a given enterprise,
obtain from any of the plurality of enterprise network administrators through the respective secure user interface a first network access notification message policy comprising a first network access trigger condition and an associated first network access notification message to be applied to a given one or more of the wireless end-user devices in the respective device group list for that administrator, the first network access trigger condition comprising one or more current or requested wireless end-user device network access activities, the first network access notification message comprising notification information to be presented to that administrator through the respective secure user interface,
receive a trigger condition indication from a network element,
associate the trigger condition indication with the first network access notification message, and
present the notification information to that administrator through the respective secure user interface;
a network provisioning instruction translator configured to:
receive, from the first service design center, the first network access trigger condition, and
determine, based on the first network access trigger condition, one or more network access trigger identification instructions; and
a network provisioning system configured to communicate the one or more network access trigger identification instructions to one or more network elements responsible for monitoring wireless service usage of the plurality of wireless end-user devices, the one or more network elements responsible for monitoring the wireless service usage configured to:
execute the one or more network access trigger identification instructions to identify when the first network access trigger condition occurs for any device of the given one or more wireless end user devices in the respective device group list, and
send the trigger condition indication to the first service design center.
2. The network system recited in claim 1 , further comprising a master service design center configured to define a first notification policy design capability set for the first service design center, the first notification policy design capability set comprising a first subset of a master policy capability set.
3. The network system of claim 2 , wherein the master service design center is further configured to define a second notification policy design capability set for a second service design center, the second notification policy design capability set comprising a second subset of the master policy capability set, the second subset of the master policy capability set different from the first subset of the master policy capability set.
4. The network system recited in claim 1 , wherein the first network access trigger condition comprises a period of time since a previous network access trigger condition, and the first network access notification message comprises a real-time or near-real-time measure of an amount of service usage or a cost of service usage.
5. The network system recited in claim 1 , wherein the first network access trigger condition comprises an amount of service usage or a cost of service usage, and the first network access notification message comprises a real-time or near-real-time measure of an aggregate service usage or an aggregate cost.
6. The network system recited in claim 1 , wherein the service design center is further configured to send a user notification message to a user of a wireless end-user device meeting the first network access trigger condition, based on the first network access notification message.
7. The network system recited in claim 1 , wherein the first service design center is hosted on a wireless network operator network.
8. The network system recited in claim 1 , wherein the first network access trigger condition comprises a violation of an enterprise security policy.
9. The network system recited in claim 1 , wherein the first network access trigger condition comprises a service usage limit or a specified amount of accrued cost.
10. The network system recited in claim 1 , wherein the first network access trigger condition comprises a roaming service usage limit or specified amount of accrued roaming service cost.
11. The network system recited in claim 1 , wherein the one or more network elements responsible for monitoring the wireless service usage of the plurality of wireless end-user devices are configured to classify service usage by device application, and the first network access trigger condition comprises service usage classified to one or more device application access activities.
12. The network system recited in claim 1 , wherein the one or more network elements responsible for monitoring the wireless service usage of the plurality of wireless end-user devices are configured to classify service usage by network destination, and the first network access trigger condition comprises one or more classified network destination device access activities.
13. The network system recited in claim 1 , wherein the one or more network elements responsible for monitoring service usage comprise a service usage monitor located in a wireless operator network.
14. The network system recited in claim 1 , wherein the one or more network elements responsible for monitoring service usage comprise a service usage monitor located in an enterprise access network.
15. The network system recited in claim 1 , wherein the one or more network elements responsible for monitoring service usage comprise a service usage monitor located on a wireless device.
16. The network system recited in claim 1 , wherein the first network access notification message policy is associated with a first device group defined by a first list of device credentials, and the service design center is further configured to obtain a second network access notification message policy comprising a plurality of second network access trigger conditions and, for each of the plurality of second network access trigger conditions, an associated second network access notification message, the second network access notification message policy associated with a second device group defined by a second list of device credentials.