Patents by Inventor Michael D. Krieger

Michael D. Krieger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9191522
    Abstract: A mobile communication device that monitors and reports consumption of multi-tiered communication services is disclosed. The mobile communication device comprises a radio frequency transceiver, a processor, a memory, and an application stored in the memory. The application, when executed by the processor in a trusted security zone, wherein the trusted security zone provides hardware assisted trust; monitors a tier of communication service consumption, wherein a tier of communication service is associated to at least one of the amount of data, the data throughput, the latency, or the jitter; creates logs of communication service consumption differentiated by tier, and transmits a message containing the logs of the communication service consumption to a billing data store in a network of a service provider associated with the mobile communication device, whereby a bill is created by a billing server accessing the billing data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Michael D. Krieger, Lyle W. Paczkowski, Matthew C. Schlesener