Sprint Spectrum L.p.

Daren R Furness

Von Karl McConnell

Arun Santharam

Baoquan Zhang

Charles Woodson

Ronald E Lewis

Lyle Thomas Bertz

Matthew Barrow

Jesse Money

Tracy Poffenroth

Tania Mazza-Deblawe

A mobile station that is fully engaged such that it cannot be connected to an incoming call without being disconnected from an existing call receives an incoming call notification. The incoming call notification may, for example, take the form of a short message system (SMS) message or a packet protocol message, such as a session initiation protocol (SIP) message. The incoming call notification may identify the calling party and may explain how to take the incoming call. If the user accepts the incoming call, the mobile station is disconnected from existing calls and connected to the incoming call.

Method and system for incoming call notification

In a packet-switched network, a subscribing application subscribes to a network presence server to receive selected network presence information. The network presence server obtains the selected network presence information, at least in part, from status messages that a network access server, such as a packet data serving node (PDSN), sends, for example, to an accounting server. The network presence server then provides the selected network presence information to the subscribing application. The selected network presence information may include an identification of a particular customer that has just initiated or terminated a data session and the network address the particular customer is or was using.

Method and system for network presence notification

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Shawnee Mission, KS, United States of America

Daren R Furness