Methods for optimizing establishing connections to and facilitating offers of roaming services and devices thereof
US9215335B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 22, 2014 |
| Grant date | Dec 15, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 22, 2034 |
Classification
- 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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