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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 20, 2015
Applicant:

Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Benjamin E. Bittfield, Lenexa, KS (US);

John H. Bennett, III, Lawrence, KS (US);

Frederick C. Rogers, Olathe, KS (US);

Chidambaram Pavanasam, Overland Park, KS (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 61/1511 (2013.01); H04L 61/251 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems are provided for allocating a Domain Name System server to a user device based on the Internet Protocol version capability of the user device. During a session set up for the user device in a wireless communications network, an IP version that the user device is capable of communicating with in the wireless communications network is determined. If the user device is capable of communicating in the wireless communications network using IP IPv4 and IPv6, a first Domain Name System (DNS) server is allocated to the user device for use in a current session. If the user device is capable of communicating in the wireless communications network using IPv6 only, a second DNS server is allocated to the user device for use in a current session, where the first DNS server is different than the second DNS server.


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