US Patent 8484568 Data usage monitoring per application

A user device associates a data session with a particular application, of the user device, that initiated the data session. The user device monitors network data usage for the data session and/or receives network data usage from a monitoring device associated with the network. The device stores and/or retrieves statistics for the network data usage associated with the particular application. The device further retrieves subscription plan information associated with the user device and presents, on a display, the statistics for the network data usage associated with the particular application and in relation to the subscription plan information associated with the user device.