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Methods for optimizing establishing connections to and facilitating offers of roaming services and devices thereof

US9215335B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateDec 22, 2014
Grant dateDec 15, 2015
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Expiry dateDec 22, 2034

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W88/16
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and device that optimizes establishing connections to and facilitating offers of roaming services, the method includes adding, by a diameter roaming gateway controller device, a domain name of a packet data network gateway in the home network system to an update location answer received in response to an update location request from a home subscriber system in a home network system associated with a roaming mobile computing device. The update location answer is sent, by the diameter roaming gateway controller device, to a mobility management entity in a visited network. Redirect information is added, by the diameter roaming gateway controller device, to a credit control answer received from the policy charging and rules function element in the home network system in response to a credit control request message generated by a packet data network gateway in the home network system. The redirect information provides instruction to route communications from the roaming mobile computing device to a landing server device. An update on a roaming provider for the roaming mobile computing device is received, by the diameter roaming gateway …

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