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Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

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Jack T Tang

Patricia Ruey Chang

Lalit R Kotecha

William Chung King

Ce Xu

Peter Li

Peter Hu

Arda Aksu

David Chiang

Maria G Lam

Steven Roy Rados

Benjamin J Parker

Clarence E Drumheller

Russel Brankley

Daniel T Belenets

Jan Hao Tang

James A Wales

A user equipment (UE) provides a device identifier to a server device, and receives, based on one of the device identifier or a location of the device, carrier pricing information from the server device. The UE provides the carrier pricing information for display, and receives a selection of a particular carrier from the displayed carrier pricing information. The UE provides an indication of the particular carrier to the server device, initializes a connection with the particular carrier, and performs one or more communication operations via the connection with the particular carrier.

Multicarrier wireless service selection

A monitoring device may determine an application to monitor, may determine a parameter to monitor, where the parameter is associated with at least one of a network or a device, may determine user devices from which to collect the parameter, and may transmit, to the user devices, information that identifies the application and information that identifies the parameter. The monitoring device may receive, from the user devices, information that identifies values of the parameter, may analyze the values of the parameter, may determine, based on the analysis, that the application is a cause of a problem associated with the network or the device. The monitoring device may perform an action based on determining that the application is a cause of the problem.

Device and method for network troubleshooting

A network device may receive, from a user device, a request for network access to a network and communicate a request, to a subscriber data storage, for subscriber data, corresponding to the user device, to verify whether the user device may be granted network access. The network platform may determine, in response to communicating the request to the subscriber data storage, that the subscriber data storage is non-responsive and executing a fail-open function in response to determining that the subscriber data storage is non-responsive. The fail-open function may include processing the request for network access without subscriber data from the subscriber data storage and granting network access to the user device without verifying that the user device is permitted to access the network.

Fail-open network techniques

In existing standards for packet data communication over enhanced cellular networks, for a subscriber having a static address, the network relies on the terminal to provide the static address. Consequently, the terminal needs to know (be programmed with) its own static address and typically the address of a home agent element of the network. To eliminate the attendant need to provision such address data in the mobile station, the static address is stored in a node of the network, and the network assigns that one address to the mobile station, every time when the subscriber requests packet data service, for example, using a mobile IP (MIP) type address assignment procedure. The address assignment operation may also provide the home agent address to the station.

Network based IP address assignment for static IP subscriber

Improved billing accuracy in session-based communications is provided by separating session (or connection) billing from session processing. If two sessions () on the same serving node are bridged, so the true stop time of the prior session () is not known, the stop time of the prior session is defined as a function of the last activity during (TALS) that session. To accomplish this, the serving node detects and stores the time of last activity and the time of initiation for each connection and determines the billing time accordingly, regardless of the state of the inactivity timer () or whether sessions were bridged by the serving node.

Session-based accounting

A seat cover for an automobile to be installed over existing automobile seats includes at least two fabric straps having a hook surface, each of the fabric straps being attached to the automobile seat by a lower hook engaging the lower seat frame, an upper hook engaging the headrest supports, and an intermediate retaining bracket which engages each strap and retains it in the fold of the automobile seat located between the seat portion and the back portion of the automobile seat, the straps held against the inner surface of the seat with the hook surface facing outward from the automobile seat, with a lower seat cover covering the seat portion, the lower seat cover having an inner surface having a fabric loop surface which engages the hook surface of each strap, and an upper seat cover covering the back portion, the upper seat cover also having an inner surface having a fabric loop surface which engages the hook surface of each strap, the upper seat cover also having a headrest cover which covers the headrest of the automobile seat, the headrest cover removably attaching to the upper seat cover by a headrest retaining tab made of a fabric hook material.

Automobile seat cover

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