T-mobile Innovations LLC

T-mobile Usa, Inc.

Tupalli Shruthisagar

Anil Kumar Mariyani

Chris Jensen

Rajil Malhotra

Anuj Sharma

Deepesh Belwal

Dipta Moy Biswas

Sriharsha Kadalbal

Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for group-based filtering of user devices on a wireless network. Upon a request from a user device to access a requested network service, a device specific identifier associated with the user device is used to determine one or more groups associated with the user device. Based on any access restrictions for the one or more groups associated with the user device, the requested network service may be selectively authorized or provided.

Network access based on device type

Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for improving wireless network services by carrying out various procedures to identify and filter suspect user devices. A network function may monitor a plurality of network service requests from a particular user device and determine, based on the plurality of network services requests, that the requesting user device is engaged in suspicious activity. Upon such a determination, the network function may initiate one or more enforcement actions by communicating an instruction to an equipment identity register to add the requesting user device to a suspect device list stored on a unified data repository.

Automated suspect device filtering on equipment identity registers

A carrier network may detect and prevent completion of SIM swap frauds. For example, a carrier network may, based at least in part on a SIM swap request to replace a first SIM associated with a subscriber with a second SIM, store first information associated with the first SIM. Subsequent to the execution of a SIM swap to replace the first SIM with the second SIM, the carrier network may perform fraud detection on the SIM swap based at least in part on the first information associated with the first SIM stored based at least in part on the SIM swap request and based at least in part on second information associated with the second SIM and based at least in part on the SIM swap being detected as fraudulent by the fraud detection, cause the second SIM to be prohibited from operating with respect to the subscriber.

SIM swap fraud prevention

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Tupalli Shruthisagar