公开(公告)号：US20210377061A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-02

申请号：US17400192

申请日：2021-08-12

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Lixia Yan ,  James Mathison ,  Barry F. Hoffner ,  Marc Chiaverini

IPC: H04L12/14 ,  G06F16/2457 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04W28/02

Abstract: A system described herein may provide for the selection of a charging function (“CHF”) associated with a particular user equipment (“UE”). A particular CHF may be selected, from a group of candidate CHFs, based on CHF selection criteria respectively associated with the candidate CHFs and attribute information associated with the UE. The attribute information may describe attributes of the UE, profile information associated with the UE, and/or attributes of traffic and/or bearers associated with the UE.

公开(公告)号：US11133946B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-28

申请号：US16683899

申请日：2019-11-14

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Lixia Yan ,  James Mathison ,  Barry F. Hoffner ,  Marc Chiaverini

IPC: H04L12/14 ,  G06F16/2457 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04W28/02

Abstract: A system described herein may provide for the selection of a charging function (“CHF”) associated with a particular user equipment (“UE”). A particular CHF may be selected, from a group of candidate CHFs, based on CHF selection criteria respectively associated with the candidate CHFs and attribute information associated with the UE. The attribute information may describe attributes of the UE, profile information associated with the UE, and/or attributes of traffic and/or bearers associated with the UE.

公开(公告)号：US10772005B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-08

申请号：US16526420

申请日：2019-07-30

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Lixia Yan ,  Marc Chiaverini ,  Barry F. Hoffner ,  Ho Yin Cheuk

IPC: H04W28/02 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W36/22 ,  H04W48/06 ,  H04M15/00 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04W76/12

Abstract: A system described herein may provide a mechanism for accurately tracking data usage across multiple User Plane Function (“UPF”) devices in a telecommunications network. For example, different types of traffic may be handled by UPFs (e.g., may be dropped or forwarded), and the UPFs may be able to report the dropping of specific types of traffic, without needing to perform deep packet inspection (“DPI”). Header information may be passed from an upstream UPF to a downstream UPF with the traffic, where the header information indicates rules and/or policies that were applied by the upstream UPF. The downstream UPF may identify the rules and/or policies from the upstream UPF, and may use this information when reporting usage to a Session Management Function (“SMF”).

公开(公告)号：US20190166258A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-30

申请号：US16220595

申请日：2018-12-14

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Lixia Yan ,  Marc Chiaverini ,  Barry F. Hoffner ,  Ho Yin Cheuk ,  Imtiyaz Shaikh

IPC: H04M15/00 ,  H04W4/24 ,  H04W8/18

CPC classification number: H04M15/61 ,  H04L12/1403 ,  H04M15/58 ,  H04M15/62 ,  H04M15/852 ,  H04W4/24 ,  H04W8/183

Abstract: A system described herein may provide an interface between a Session Management Function (“SMF”) and a charging system in a wireless telecommunications system. The charging system may generate triggers which cause the SMF to monitor traffic associated with user equipment (“UE”) and alert the charging system when certain trigger conditions have been satisfied. The triggers may be modified during a communication session between the UE and the wireless telecommunications system. The triggers may be configured on a per-subscriber or a per-price plan level basis. The SMF may also cache a number of satisfied trigger conditions before notifying the charging system, which may result in an efficient use of networking and/or processing resources. The unification of “offline” and “online” charging events, by virtue of the interface, may also result in an efficient use of networking and/or processing resources.

公开(公告)号：US10205831B1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-12

申请号：US15824330

申请日：2017-11-28

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Lixia Yan ,  Marc Chiaverini ,  Barry F. Hoffner ,  Ho Yin Cheuk ,  Imtiyaz Shaikh

IPC: H04W4/24 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W4/26 ,  H04M15/00

Abstract: A system described herein may provide an interface between a Session Management Function (“SMF”) and a charging system in a wireless telecommunications system. The charging system may generate triggers which cause the SMF to monitor traffic associated with user equipment (“UE”) and alert the charging system when certain trigger conditions have been satisfied. The triggers may be modified during a communication session between the UE and the wireless telecommunications system. The triggers may be configured on a per-subscriber or a per-price plan level basis. The SMF may also cache a number of satisfied trigger conditions before notifying the charging system, which may result in an efficient use of networking and/or processing resources. The unification of “offline” and “online” charging events, by virtue of the interface, may also result in an efficient use of networking and/or processing resources.

公开(公告)号：US20190007560A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-03

申请号：US15639219

申请日：2017-06-30

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Lixia Yan ,  Imtiaz Shaikh ,  Barry F. Hoffner ,  Ho Yin Cheuk ,  Marc Chiaverini

IPC: H04M15/00 ,  H04W4/00 ,  H04W4/24

Abstract: A method is provided for performing RAN-usage-based tracking in a wireless core network. The method includes receiving a connection authorization request from a radio access network (RAN); obtaining a plan code for a communication device associated with the connection authorization request; associating, based on the plan code, the communication device with a RAN-usage-based plan; and sending, in response to the associating, tracking instances of RAN usage by the communication device to a usage-tracking server device.

公开(公告)号：US20180063336A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-01

申请号：US15479641

申请日：2017-04-05

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Jeremy P. Bolton ,  Luke D. VonFeldt ,  Christopher M. Perry ,  Mamadou Mamoune Niang ,  Barry F. Hoffner ,  Mark Andrews ,  Scott A. Townley ,  Lixia Yan ,  Marc Chiaverini ,  Javier A. Ferro ,  Hiywote Demisse ,  Ratul K. Guha ,  Jolly Lal ,  Romeo R. Tan ,  Uma Venkata Raman ,  Bhaskar Srinivasiah ,  Jonathan B. Ofri ,  Alexis Polanco, JR. ,  Mark Gilbert

IPC: H04M15/00

CPC classification number: H04M15/887 ,  H04L12/14 ,  H04M15/59 ,  H04M15/765 ,  H04M15/8207 ,  H04M15/8214 ,  H04M15/844 ,  H04M15/88 ,  H04M15/886 ,  H04W4/24

Abstract: A method may include determining a number of user devices that can access data services in a wireless network and storing information identifying the determined number of user devices for each of a number of sectors for each of a number of periods of time. The method may also include receiving a request from a first user device associated with a first user for access to data services during a first period of time, accessing the stored information to determine whether to grant the request and providing access to data services via the wireless network to the first user device. The method may further include excluding data usage by the first user device during the first period of time from being applied against a data limit associated with the user's data plan.

公开(公告)号：US09894215B1

公开(公告)日：2018-02-13

申请号：US15479641

申请日：2017-04-05

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Jeremy P. Bolton ,  Luke D. VonFeldt ,  Christopher M. Perry ,  Mamadou Mamoune Niang ,  Barry F. Hoffner ,  Mark Andrews ,  Scott A. Townley ,  Lixia Yan ,  Marc Chiaverini ,  Javier A. Ferro ,  Hiywote Demisse ,  Ratul K. Guha ,  Jolly Lal ,  Romeo R. Tan ,  Uma Venkata Raman ,  Bhaskar Srinivasiah ,  Jonathan B. Ofri ,  Alexis Polanco, Jr. ,  Mark Gilbert

IPC: H04M11/00 ,  H04M15/00

CPC classification number: H04M15/887 ,  H04L12/14 ,  H04M15/59 ,  H04M15/765 ,  H04M15/8207 ,  H04M15/8214 ,  H04M15/844 ,  H04M15/88 ,  H04M15/886 ,  H04W4/24

Abstract: A method may include determining a number of user devices that can access data services in a wireless network and storing information identifying the determined number of user devices for each of a number of sectors for each of a number of periods of time. The method may also include receiving a request from a first user device associated with a first user for access to data services during a first period of time, accessing the stored information to determine whether to grant the request and providing access to data services via the wireless network to the first user device. The method may further include excluding data usage by the first user device during the first period of time from being applied against a data limit associated with the user's data plan.

公开(公告)号：US09602995B2

公开(公告)日：2017-03-21

申请号：US14712115

申请日：2015-05-14

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Marc Chiaverini ,  Javier A. Ferro ,  Barry F. Hoffner

IPC: H04M11/00 ,  H04W4/24 ,  H04M15/00

CPC classification number: H04W4/24 ,  H04M15/64 ,  H04M15/65

Abstract: Systems and methods for synchronizing online and offline charging data are disclosed. In some implementations, a charging trigger machine (CTM) determines that charging data for a mobile user account at an online charging system (OCS) and charging data for the mobile user account at an offline charging system (OFCS) are to be synchronized. The CTM sends a credit control request (CCR) to the OCS. The CTM sends an account charging request (ACR) to the OFCS simultaneously with sending the CCR to the OCS and in response to determining that the charging data at the OCS and the charging data at the OFCS are to be synchronized. The ACR includes an instruction for a service data container (SDC) level trigger to be added to an output charging data record (CDR) created at the OFCS and associated with the mobile user account.

公开(公告)号：US12114395B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-08

申请号：US17736123

申请日：2022-05-04

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Lixia Yan ,  Javier A Ferro ,  Marc Chiaverini ,  Barry F Hoffner

IPC: H04W8/18 ,  H04W4/24 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W60/04 ,  H04W76/10

CPC classification number: H04W8/18 ,  H04W4/24 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W60/04 ,  H04W76/10

Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for automated recovery to re-provision a subscriber of a communication network are provided. A communication session establishment request for a user equipment of a subscriber to utilize a communication network may be received. Subscriber location information, session management subscription data, and policy data associated with the subscriber may be retrieved. A subscriber not found response may be received from a charging component as a response to a charging subscriber request for the charging component to track network and service utilization by the user equipment due to a prior failure to register the subscriber with the charging component. Accordingly, an automated self-healing action may be performed to re-provision the subscriber with the charging component for registering the subscriber for network and service utilization tracking by the charging component.