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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2015
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Jean-Francois Paiement, Sausalito, CA (US);
Sastry Isukapalli, Green Brook, NJ (US);
Ann E. Skudlark, San Ramon, CA (US);
Christopher T. Volinsky, Morristown, NJ (US);
Dan Melamed, New York, NY (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for assigning a mobile device that is unassigned to a user are disclosed. Mobile phone numbers are used as a surrogate for device. For example, the method implemented via a processor obtains the phone number that is unassigned from a list of phone numbers associated with a billing account number, assigns the phone number that is unassigned to the user, wherein the user is selected from among a plurality of users associated with the billing account number, determines a confidence level for the assigning of the phone number that is unassigned to the user, and performs an analysis to provide a service for the user to whom the phone number is assigned.