Incentivized sharing for toll-free data
US10009406B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 9, 2015 |
| Grant date | Jun 26, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 2, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/63
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A network device provides, to a user device, an application for managing viewing and sharing of content available via an Internet service provider, and assigns a unique code for a user of the user device. The network device provides a catalog of available content items that includes toll-free data (TFD) content items with a different TFD uniform resource locator (URL) for each TFD content item in the catalog of available content items. The network device receives a user's selection, from the catalog, of a TFD content item to share, and generates a sharing URL based on a TFD URL for the selected TFD content item and the unique sharing code. The network device provides the sharing URL to the user device for sharing with other users.
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