Tracking data usage under a schematized data plan

摘要

Embodiments provide a schema for representing data usage plans and data usage statistics. The data usage plan describes threshold values associated with network connections of computing devices of the user. A web service dynamically generates data usage statistics for the computing devices to represent data consumed by the computing devices under the data usage plan. The schema is updated with the data usage statistics and distributed to the computing devices for presentation to the user.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a memory area associated with a mobile computing device, said memory area storing a schema representing a data usage plan associated with a user, the data usage plan describing threshold values associated with network connections of one or more computing devices of the user, the network connections being categorized based on types of network traffic data; and a processor programmed to:
dynamically generate data usage statistics for the user, the data usage statistics representing network data consumed under the data usage plan by a mobile computing device, the data usage statistics being dynamically generated, at the mobile computing device, by collecting the network data consumed by a plurality of components of the mobile computing device;populate the schema stored in the memory area with the dynamically generated data usage statistics; andprovide at least a portion of the populated schema to a web service for distribution to other computing devices of the user.