T-mobile Usa, Inc.

Shelby Seward

Robert F Piscopo, Jr

Shujaur Rehman Mufti

William Michael Hooker

Yasmin Karimli

Hsin-Fu Henry Chiang

Boris Antsev

Adrian T Synal

Phani Ramisetty

Thomas P Lucht

Cristian Asandului

Timothy Dunn

Michael Hooker

Srini Bodapotula

Mathew George

Senthil Kumar Mulluppadi Velusamy

Vinod Ravichandran

Zeeshan Jahangir

Poornima Magadevan

Thomas Cast

Michele Kinsey

Rob Piscopo

Jeffrey Song

Gunjan Nimbavikar

Christopher Harvey Joul

Joshua Finger

Alexandru Catalin Ionescu

Michael Engan

Arturo Silis

Steven S Farsai

Srinivas Meka

Kimberly Bylund

Shailendra Dhamankar

Robert Piscopo

Krishnaraj Babu

Brad Smith

Anthony Yiu

Robert F Piscopo Jr

The disclosed system and method enable multiple user devices to track the read/unread status of received messages, even though the user reads the message on only one device. A server of a telecommunication network can receive, from a user device associated with a sender, a message sent to a recipient. The user device does not communicate to the server that the received message has been read. Upon receiving the message, the server can determine that the message is in reply to a message thread and can update a status of a second message in the message thread to the read status. The second message is the most recent message in the message thread sent by the recipient to the sender. The server can provide the updated status of the second message in the message thread to the multiple user devices associated with the sender.

Synchronizing message status across multiple user devices

Disclosed here is a visual collaboration software including multiple digital canvas and multiple tools enabling collaboration among multiple users by enabling creation and sharing of visual information including text and drawings. The visual collaboration software obtains from a second software, e.g., a project management software, a file or a portion of the file, and displays the file or the portion in one of the multiple digital canvases. In one embodiment, the visual collaboration software can enable the user to interact with the file obtained from the second software and can pass the modifications to the file to the second software. In another embodiment, the visual collaboration software can only display the file or the portion of the file in one of the multiple digital canvases, and an interaction between the user and the file has to be passed to the second software to compute to the effect of the interaction.

Embedded reference object and interaction within a visual collaboration system

One or more timers can be used by an originating UE during setup of a communication session. The timer(s) can be triggered by an originating UE receiving a response from a node of a telecommunications network. The timer(s) can further be terminated by a particular termination event during a remainder of the session setup, so long as the termination event occurs before timeout of the timer(s).

Call setup timer triggered by network response

User devices configured to select subsets of network identities and network devices configured to deliver messages based on those subsets are described herein. The user devices each receive multiple network identities for a service account, select a subset of the network identities based on preferences, and provide the selected subset to the telecommunication network in message headers. The preferences indicate network identities for which a user wishes the user device to receive communications. A network device receives and caches the subsets. The network device further utilizes the subsets in determining which user device to deliver messages to.

Message delivery based on subsets of network identities

A network terminal, e.g., a smartphone, can retrieve, from a datastore, a cryptographically-signed configuration record including a device identifier of the terminal. The terminal can transmit a request message comprising the configuration record and the device identifier. A network device can verify authenticity of the device identifier and a match between the identifier in the record and the identifier in the message. In response to confirmation of the request by a policy engine, the network device can determine a reply message comprising a cryptographically-signed second configuration record that includes a second device identifier. The terminal can verify that the signature is valid and that the second device identifier matches the device identifier. In response, the terminal can modify data in the datastore according to the second configuration record. The configuration record can lock or unlock the terminal, or determine permitted services or network peers.

Secure updating of telecommunication terminal configuration

A telecommunication network provides telecommunication service to a user equipment (UE) and a communication device that is connected to the telecommunication network via a private branch exchange. Both the UE and the communication device utilizing a Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number (MSISDN) for the telecommunication service, and the telecommunication network stores a profile associating both the UE and the communication device with the MSISDN. Additionally, the telecommunication network enables communication between the communication device and a communication partner device and notifies the UE of the communication.

MSISDN sharing between UES and PBX devices

Techniques are described for delivering subscriber information of a subscriber of a wireless carrier network to an authorized partner. The techniques include receiving, from a requesting entity device, a request for subscriber information of a subscriber, the request comprising a public Internet Protocol (IP) address of a user device associated with the subscriber, determining whether the requesting entity device is associated with an authorized partner based at least on one or more credentials associated with the requesting entity device, in response to determining that the requesting entity device is associated with the authorized partner, routing the request to at least one subscriber database of a plurality of subscriber databases to obtain the subscriber information using the public IP address of the user device, and transmitting the subscriber information of the subscriber to the requesting entity device.

MSISDN request handling for identity fraud management

In some aspects, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) proxy server of an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) infrastructure is configured to process SIP registration requests. In operation, the SIP proxy server receives a single SIP registration request that includes a plurality of IMS Public User Identities (IMPUs). The SIP proxy server then authenticates the plurality of IMPUs to determine which of the plurality of IMPUs are authorized IMPUs. A plurality of SIP registrations are then performed by the SIP proxy server, wherein each SIP registration of the plurality of SIP registrations is a SIP registration of a respective authorized IMPU.

Batched IMS SIP registration proxy

An example method is performed by a rich communications services (RCS) server. The RCS server maintains metadata and RCS messages associated with a message thread, where the message thread provides open group chat (OGC) communications among a plurality of participants. The RCS server receives a lock request from a participant of the message thread to lock the message thread and in response thereto modifies the metadata associated with the message thread to indicate that the message thread is locked. A request to join the message thread is then received by the RCS server, where the request is rejected in response to the RCS server determining that the metadata associated with the message thread indicates that the message thread is locked.

Locking open group chat communications

One or more timers can be used by an originating UE during setup of a communication session. The timer(s) can be triggered by an originating UE sending a request or receiving a response that uses a first signaling protocol. The timer(s) can further be terminated by the originating UE sending a request or receiving a response that uses a second signaling protocol different from the first signaling protocol, so long as the request/response using the second signaling protocol occurs before timeout of the timer(s).

Call setup timer triggered and terminated by different protocols

In some implementations, a core network device can receive an initiation request of a communication session to an alias number. The core network device can retrieve from a registration database one or more destination number(s) corresponding to the alias number. The core network device can transmit respective indication(s) of the alias number to destination(s) corresponding to the retrieved destination number(s). The core network device can initiate the communication session to one of the destination(s) using the respective one of the retrieved destination number(s). A destination number can correspond to a computing device, e.g., user equipment, configured to answer calls originating from an alias number that is different from the destination number, by receiving an intent message indicating the alias number, transmitting an acknowledgement, subsequently receiving an invitation message directed to the destination number for a communication session with another device, and transmitting an acceptance message to the other device.

Routing multiple numbers for one telecommunications device

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Bellevue, WA, United States of America

Shelby Seward