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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2015
Applicant:
Zte Corporation, Shenzhen, CN;
Inventor:
Rajesh Bhalla, Gahanna, OH (US);
Assignee:
ZTE Corporation, Shenzhen, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01); H04W 76/40 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 84/04 (2013.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.02); H04W 76/40 (2018.02);
Abstract
A communication network handles group management of two different types of groups of user devices. The first type of group is an application server managed group and is used for communication to/from application servers external to the network. The second type of group is a mobile network operator managed group and is used for group communication of network-specific messages to user devices.