Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Brian Olson

Suzann Hua

Lalit R Kotecha

Sudhakar Reddy Patil

Scott Anthony Townley

Priscilla Lau

Ye Huang

David Chiang

Matthew W Nelson

Javier M Lopez

Paul H Prehn

Cora Kasaji Kalukuta

Donna L Polehn

Sagiv Draznin

Steven Roy Rados

Benjamin J Parker

Emerando M Delos Reyes

Kumar Sanjeev

Chris S Neisinger

Kent William Hughes

Kevin Lim

Joseph Lee

Craig A Barth

Nithya Krishnaswamy

Tony Ferreira

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an blocking delivery service is provided. The service may use an identifier of a source end device, destination address information associated with a destination end device, and configurable criteria as a basis to block delivery of application service layer data. The service may be configured to apply to end devices based on an addressing scheme of the service. The service may be configured on a network device that provides an application service. The service may block delivery without the use of class of service or subscriber provisioning.

Blocking delivery service

A computer device receives user parameters for an Over-The-Air (OTA) update campaign. The parameters include a number of user equipment (UE) devices to receive an OTA update, a device type to receive the OTA update, a file size of an OTA update file, and a service level agreement parameter for the OTA update campaign. The computer device generates an estimate for conducting the OTA update campaign based on the user parameters and predicted network conditions, provides the estimate to a user, and receives a request for conducting the OTA update campaign using the user parameters. The request includes identifiers for the UE devices and the OTA update file. The computer device generates, based on the request, a schedule to perform the OTA update on the UE devices in accordance with the service level agreement parameter, and instructs the UE devices to perform the OTA update based on the schedule.

Systems and methods to support firmware over-the-air events based on service level agreement

A computer device may include a processor configured to detect a condition to page a user equipment (UE) device, retrieve mobility category information associated with the UE device from a mobility database, and use the retrieved mobility category information to determine a paging policy. The computer device may be further configured to select a number of base station cells to which the computer device is to send a paging message based on the determined paging policy and page the UE device using the selected number of base station cells.

Systems and methods for a network paging policy based on device mobility category

An improved method and system of optimizing handling and sending of reachability notifications for a UE is disclosed. Solutions and implementations disclosed provide an efficient mechanism for determining the timing and duration of reachability periods for a UE and as a result predicting future reachability periods. This enables sending of one notification with sufficient information to inform the network of the time periods during which the UE is reachable instead of sending a notification each time the device becomes reachable.

System and method of optimizing user equipment reachability notifications

A computer device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to detect a condition to page a user equipment (UE) device, retrieve mobility category information associated with the UE device from a mobility database, and use the retrieved mobility category information to determine a paging policy. The computer device may be further configured to select a number of base station cells to which the computer device is to send a paging message based on the determined paging policy and page the UE device using the selected number of base station cells.

A system and method may include receiving information for a number of user equipment (UE) devices, wherein the information identifies a category associated with network access priority for each of the UE devices. The system and method may also include receiving, on behalf of a first one of the UE devices, a message to establish a network connection corresponding to a request for prioritized network access and determining whether a category for the first UE device allows for prioritized network access. The system and method may further include allowing prioritized network access to the first UE device, in response to determining that the category for the first UE device allows for prioritized network access and denying prioritized network access to the first UE device in response to determining that the category for the first UE device does not allow for prioritized network access.

System and method for controlling usage of priority access in networks

A mobility management entity device (MME) may receive a request from a user device to attach to a network. The request to attach to the network may include a user device identifier for the user device. The MME may receive, from a home subscriber server (HSS) and based on the user device identifier for the user device, information relating to the user device. The information may include at least one connection parameter. The at least one connection parameter may include at least information indicating whether a bearer should be allocated to the user device. The MME may establish a network connection for the user device based on the at least one connection parameter. The MME may cause traffic to be routed from the user device based on the at least one connection parameter.

Supporting network connectivity for multiple categories of user devices and applications

A system may be configured to allow for storage of location information regarding a set of user devices. The location information may be updated relatively frequently, and without introducing additional traffic into a wireless telecommunications network associated with the user devices. The location information may be made available to internal devices associated with the wireless telecommunications network and/or to external third party devices (such as banks, payment card processors, or advertisers) with user consent. Since the information is obtained and stored prior to requests, the location information may be provided, in response to requests, relatively quickly.

Subscriber location database

A user device may be used to prevent a user from driving a vehicle while distracted by the user device. The user device may create a user profile, determine whether the user is driving, and collect usage data while the user is driving. The user profile may include information regarding the driver's propensity to be distracted while driving and the usage data may include information on whether the user is actually distracted by the user device. The user device may determine whether the driver is distracted based on the user profile and the usage data, and may respond in one or more ways, such as by alerting the driver with an audio signal, disabling a feature of the user device, logging instances of user distraction with a diagnostics device, activating a braking system of the vehicle, warning nearby drivers about the driver being distracted, and more.

Distracted driver prevention systems and methods

A system may be configured to compute an estimated location of a user device based on an estimation coefficient and a measured distance between the user device and a base station. The estimation coefficient may be based on: an actual distance between a reference device and the base station, and a measured distance between the reference device and the base station. The system may store or output the information regarding the estimated location of the device.

Enhancing geo-location precision in wireless systems

A first server may: receive information regarding a user device from a second server; store the information regarding the user device to form device data; determine one or more connection durations based on the device data, each one of the one or more connection durations relating to a time duration in which the user device connects to one of the one or more network devices; receive, from the second server, performance data associated with each one of the one or more network devices; receive, from a client device, a query including a request for a performance indicator of the user device; generate the performance indicator based on the performance data and based on the one or more connection durations corresponding to the each one of the one or more network devices; and provide the performance indicator to the client device based on receiving the query.

Device network footprint map and performance

A network device is configured to receive information relating to factors associated with quality of experience issues. The network device is configured to analyze the information. The network device is configured to predict that a quality of experience factor associated with a particular type of communication will exceed a threshold level a future time. The network device is configured to send a message to the device, the device generating a rule or policy; and the rule or policy instructing one or more other network devices to increase a capacity of the network to prevent the quality of experience factor from exceeding the threshold value at the future time.

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