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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2017
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Matthew Wayne Stafford, Austin, TX (US);
Qun Wei, Redmond, WA (US);
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Device querying of service entitlement is presented herein. A method can comprise receiving a provisioning rule representing that a barred service is to be excluded from a group of available services that are available to a subscriber, receiving, from a user equipment, a first message representing that the user equipment is equipped to facilitate a performance of the barred service, in response to receiving, from the user equipment, a second message comprising a request for the group of available services, and in response to determining, based on the first message, that the user equipment is equipped to facilitate the performance of the barred service, excluding the barred service from the group of available services resulting in a modified group of available services, and sending a third message comprising the modified group of available services directed to the user equipment.