Sprint Communications Comapny L.p.

Sprint Spectrum L.p.

T-mobile Innovations LLC

Nextel Communications Inc.

Sprint Communication Company L.p.

Raymond Emilio Reeves

Mark Douglas Peden

Ryan Alan Wick

Simon Youngs

Gary Koller

John Marvin Jones, Iii

Wen Xue

Piyush Jethwa

Michael Patrick McMullen

Prabhat Karki

Dwight Inman

Gregory Anderson Drews

Young Suk Lee

Brian D Farst

Roger Danforth Bartlett

Jason Norwood Ward

Tuan Quoc Tran

Ambreen Haleem

Brandon Christopher Annan

Michael Aaron Silvey

Thomas Michael Koch

Rodney Dewaine Nelson

Nathan A Smith

Jeff H Bryan

Sailesh Lamsal

Thomas Michael Hughson

John A Hale

Calvin D Mayfield

Deveshkumar Narendrapratap Rai

Jason Peter Sigg

John Eric Belser

Dhananjay Indurkar

Mark J Bonn

Jarrod Allen Nichols

Sean Patrick Hoelzle

Terry Gene Rayburn

Steven Duane Myers

Ameen Khanfar

Hung Kien Du

Tania S Mazza

Lauriann Lowe Hebb

Richard J Bassett

Lena Webb

Bee Sayaxong Lee

Lei Zhang

Kamran Qadir

LaReash Bridges

Ali Reza Hosseinmostafa

Michael Adetokunbo Adeniji

Jason Phillips

John Jones

Michael P Mcmullen

Systems and methods are provided for managing uplink transmission power (UTP) plans for user devices. A manager can assess UTP adjustment criteria to determine if an updated UTP plan should be activated for the user device. UTP plans may need to be updated when devices are transmitting too much power or not enough in order to be received by a telecommunications network. Updated UTP plans can increase or decrease the power transmitted by the device.

Managing uplink transmission power plans

Methods, media, and systems are provided for dynamic session trace management for user equipment (UE). For example, a first node is identified for a first UE, the first node being associated with a default trace processor. In some embodiments, the first node is identified based on a setup communication with the first UE. A trace profile for the first UE may generated. The trace profile may indicate a primary trace processor for the first UE. Based on the default trace processor of the first node being different than the primary trace processor, the first node is instructed to utilize the primary trace processor for trace reports associated with the first UE. In some embodiments, the primary trace processor may identify a location for the first UE using the trace reports. The trace reports may be received from a plurality of nodes and maintained by the primary trace processor.

Dynamic tracing in wireless communication networks

Detecting and remediating fraud on a wireless communications network is described. Trace reports corresponding to nodes and user equipment may be received. Two or more user equipment and associated with a common user may be indicative of fraud. Two or more user equipment may be instructed to identify their precise location, such as via a minimization of drive-testing system of the node and/or UE. Upon receiving a first precise location associated with a first user equipment and a second precise location associated with a second user equipment, and accessing a historical record of the common user, a comparison may be performed. Based upon this, one or more user equipment may be identified as fraudulent. Various remedial actions may be instructed related to at least one of the first node or the first user equipment.

Fraud detection in wireless communication networks

The technology described herein improves management of the optimization of a device configuration associated with one or more wireless communication technologies. An analysis is performed using performance data and device capability information for a plurality of user devices. An optimal device configuration associated with one or more wireless communication technologies is determined for one or more identified user devices of the plurality of user devices. The one or more identified user devices are instructed to operate using the determined optimized device configuration.

Optimization of device configuration relating to wireless access technologies

Systems and methods are provided for managing network configurations. In aspects, fixed wireless access-capable devices can be identified by a network manager to aggregate network connections. This may be utilized to manage congestion at a network node such that multiple direct connections with the network node are aggregated into fewer direct connections with the network node, using a fixed wireless access-capable device as an intermediary.

Managing network configurations

A method of computer authentication of a user request for a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card transfer by a biometric signature from a user equipment (UE) comprising assigning a risk score, by a mobile service provider, to a user account based on user activity in the user account, wherein the user activity includes a SIM card transfer authorization. The mobile service provider then sends a message requesting a biometric signature from an authentication application executing in memory on the UE. The authentication application on the UE then proceeds capturing a biometric signature, encrypting the biometric signature, and sending an encrypted biometric signature to the mobile service provider using a wireless communication protocol. The mobile service provider then compares the biometric signature to an authorized signature and modifies the risk score based on the comparison.

Subscriber identification module (SIM) authentication protections

A method and system for enabling MMS message delivery to a recipient device. An MMSC receives and stores MMS message content to be delivered to the recipient device, and the MMSC responsively sends to the recipient device an MMS-notification message carrying an address of the MMS message content stored at the MMSC and then receives a reply indicating that the recipient device received the MMS-notification message. The MMSC then detects that, after the MMSC received the reply, (i) at least a predefined threshold amount of time has passed and (ii) the MMSC has not yet received from the recipient device a request to download the MMS message content. And responsive to at least the detecting, the MMSC then sends to the recipient device a data-service-trigger message that triggers turning on data service of the recipient device, thus enabling MMS-message delivery to the recipient device.

Method and system to facilitate media-content delivery

Methods and systems are provided for determining a location of a device. The methods can include receiving information associated with a device, which can include one or more radio frequency (RF) signal strength values associated with communication between the device and at least one antenna element of an antenna array. The methods can also include, determining, based at least partly on the information associated with the device, a location for the device.

Systems and methods to determine a location of a device

An adaptable method of monitoring a mobile communication device for duplicate text messages. The method of monitoring for duplicate text messages comprises receiving, by a monitoring application, a text message by a first messaging protocol and a second text message by a second messaging protocol, wherein the first and second text message comprises message metadata and message content. The first and second message metadata is recorded into a message log. The monitoring application compares at least one factor of the second message metadata to the first message metadata stored in the message log and assigns an incident score. The second text message is displayed if the incident score exceeds a user criteria threshold. A user feedback selection input is displayed along with the text message on the display log.

Duplicate message management

Systems and methods are provided for mitigating denial of service attacks in a communications network. Based on a determination that requests to access an E11 resource exceeds a threshold, it may be determined that a denial of service attack attempt is occurring. One or more mitigation protocols can be used to block, filter, or re-route attempts that are associated with the denial of service attack. Association with the denial of service attack can be identified based on a distance between the user devices associated with the requests and a time period for which the requests were originated.

Mitigation of denial of service attacks on emergency services

Methods and systems for connecting a device to a wireless telecommunications network. The methods can include receiving an inquiry from a device for connecting to an antenna array. The methods can also include determining if the inquiry satisfies one or more predetermined connection rules.

Systems and methods for connecting a device to a wireless telecommunications network

A computer system for provisioning voicemail. The system comprises a processor, a non-transitory memory, and a voicemail provisioning application. Upon execution by the processor, the provisioning application receives a request to create a voicemail account associated with a first phone number, creates a voicemail account comprising a first voicemail box, assigns a voicemail account identifier associated with an identity of the subscriber, and transmits the voicemail account and first voicemail box to a voicemail system, wherein the voicemail account identifier is used to reference the voicemail account. The application further receives a request to create a voicemail account associated with a second phone number of the mobile communication device, determines that a voicemail account associated with the mobile communication device already exists, creates a second voicemail box, and transmits the second voicemail box to the voicemail account identified by the voicemail account identifier.

Provisioning a voicemail platform

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