Sprint Communications Comapny L.p.

Sprint Spectrum L.p.

T-Mobile Innovations LLC

Abdolreza Asghari

Dominick Mangiardi

James D Kirby

Mark J Bonn

Ehtesham Khan

John Tayag Susbilla

ShouJei Cheng

Michael Tsai

Kenneth V George

Jonathan E Schaff

Systems and methods are provided for mitigating undesirable service disruptions in a communications network. Based on a determination that an access failure rate exceeds a threshold, it may be determined that a particular service is degraded or that a requesting user device is not authorized to access the service. One or more mitigation protocols may be used to block subsequent attempts by the requesting user device, a set of user devices associated with the requesting user device, or an area associated with the requesting user device to request access to the service.

Mitigating denial of service attacks on telecommunication services

Systems and method are provided for mitigating hacking of restricted access telecommunication services. In response to an authentication response from a user device, an authentication failure type and authentication failure frequency may be determined. Based on the authentication failure type and authentication failure frequency, the user device is blocked from accessing the telecommunication service for a predetermined period of time, preventing the service from being congested by recurring unauthorized users.

Mitigating authentication-based hacking of access restricted telecommunication services

A wireless data communication network authorizes Wireless Priority Service (WPS) communications. A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server transfers a WPS authorization code to a WPS communication device. The WPS communication device transfers a WPS SIP message to a SIP server. The WPS SIP message has the WPS authorization code and a WPS session request. The SIP server authorizes the WPS SIP message based on the WPS authorization code. When the WPS SIP message is authorized, the SIP server system identifies network addressing based on the WPS session request. The SIP server system transfers a response message to the WPS communication device that identifies the network addressing. The WPS communication device wirelessly transfers WPS data over the WPS session using the network addressing.

Wireless priority service (WPS) authorization

An Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) receives a media session invite having a Wireless Priority Service (WPS) prefix over a non-Long Term Evolution (LTE) network for a User Equipment (UE). The IMS identifies the WPS prefix and adds a Resource Priority Header (RPH) indicating that the media session invite is for a WPS call. The IMS transfers an authentication request to a WPS Application Server to authenticate the UE for the WPS call based on a UE identifier and receives an authentication response indicating that the UE is authenticated. The IMS determines that the media session invite was transferred over the non-LTE network and transfers an instruction to the UE indicating that the UE should re-originate the media session invite over the LTE network. The UE receives the instruction and transfers the media session invite having the WPS prefix to the IMS over the LTE network.

Data communication system to direct a user equipment to re-originate a media session invite having a wireless priority service (WPS) prefix over a long term evolution (LTE) network

A wireless access node to facilitate increased quality of service in consideration of medical information comprises a wireless communication transceiver and a processing system. The wireless communication transceiver is configured to receive medical data transmitted from a wireless communication device served by the wireless access node, wherein the wireless communication device senses the medical data from a user of the wireless communication device. The processing system is configured to determine a quality of service level for the wireless communication device based on the medical data, and implement the quality of service level for the wireless communication device.

Quality of service level based on medical data for a wireless communication device

A directory assistance (DA) application server to facilitate directory assistance lookup requests involving a web real-time communication (WebRTC) engine comprises a communication transceiver and a processing system. The communication transceiver is configured to receive a first session initiation protocol (SIP) information message comprising a request for directory assistance data, wherein the request is expressed in an extensible markup language (XML) format. The processing system is configured to query a directory assistance database to retrieve the directory assistance data and process the directory assistance data to generate a second SIP information message comprising the directory assistance data expressed in the XML format. The communication transceiver is further configured to transfer the second SIP information message for delivery to the WebRTC engine.

Information exchange between a directory assistance application server and a web-RTC engine

A method and apparatus to help manage sequential processing of messages. When a layer of a protocol stack in a computing device encounters a need to transmit two or more messages in a particular sequence, the layer generates and pass to a next layer of the stack a composite message defining the two or more messages together, rather than sending the messages one by one to the next layer. With this process, the combination of the two or more messages may thus pass between and/or through layers of the stack, and a layer of the stack receiving the combination may then extract the messages individually from the combination and output the extracted messages in sequence as desired.

Method and apparatus for managing sequential processing of messages

A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server comprises a signaling data system that receives a first SIP message having a Session Description Protocol (SDP) data set. The signaling system responsively stores the SDP data set in association with a session segment identifier and transfers a session request having the session segment identifier and not the SDP data set. The SIP server has a session data system that receives the session request having the session segment identifier and not the SDP data set. The session data system responsively authorizes the session request and transfers a session instruction having the session segment identifier. The signaling data system receives the session instruction having the session segment identifier and responsively identifies the SDP data set with the session segment identifier and transfers a second SIP message having the SDP data set.

Session initiation protocol (SIP) server to efficiently handle session description protocol (SDP) data sets

In various embodiments, methods, systems, and software are provided to provide location services to a mobile device. In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving a call request (including a caller identification) for a call from a mobile device, and determining if the call qualifies for a status update based on the caller identification. In response to determining that the call qualifies for a status update, the method also comprises receiving a location of the mobile device, determining the identity of a mobile unit that is in progress to the location of the mobile device, and initiating a location request of the mobile unit, receiving a location of the mobile unit in response to the location request, and providing status information based on the location of the mobile unit and the location of the mobile device to a user of the mobile device.

Location services

A customer care system. The system comprises a transformation engine, configured to use SIP/hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) signaling transcoding to invite the operator to the customer care session, map a SIP INFO MSCML payload to an interactive HTML web form, and transmit, to the operator, the HTML web forms transformed from SIP INFO MSCML payloads sent by the application server. The transformation engine is further configured to transmit, to the application server, SIP INFO MSCML payloads transformed from the HTML web forms sent by the operator, and use instructions from the SIP INFO MSCML payloads to script the operator's communication with the caller.

Using media server control markup language messages to dynamically interact with a web real-time communication customer care

A communication control system receives a call request indentifying a priority level of a calling party to establish a call from the calling party to a called party through a plurality of resources. The communication control system transfers a call setup request to setup the call the called party and receives a call rejection indicating that one of the resources is unavailable. The communication control system determines a call queue for the call based on which call queue of a plurality of call queues corresponds to the one resource and determines if the call should be placed in the call queue based on the priority level of the calling party. The plurality of call queues each correspond to a unique resource of the plurality of resources. If the call should be placed in the call queue, the communication control system places the call in the call queue.

Priority queuing in a next generation communication network

A system and method are described. A communication interface receives a request that identifies a service and a first communication device. A location system determines a location of the first communication device and a location of a second communication device. A processing system processes the location of the first communication device and the location of the second communication device to determine if the first communication device is in the vicinity of the second communication device. In response to determining that the first communication device is in the vicinity of the second communication device, the processing system transfers a notification indicating that the first communication device is in the vicinity of the second communication device.

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Abdolreza Asghari