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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:
Mar. 17, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 16, 2019
Applicant:

T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventor:

Mallika Deshpande, Sammamish, WA (US);

Assignee:

T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/14 (2006.01); H04W 4/24 (2018.01); H04M 15/00 (2006.01); H04W 88/16 (2009.01); H04W 76/00 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/1407 (2013.01); H04M 15/64 (2013.01); H04M 15/866 (2013.01); H04M 15/887 (2013.01); H04W 4/24 (2013.01); H04W 76/00 (2013.01); H04W 88/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to communication between a policy engine and a charging engine of a wireless communication network. In one example, the charging engine maintains a data store that includes counters and corresponding service identifiers of one or more subscribers of the wireless communication network. In operation, the charging engine receives a status request message from the policy engine, where the status request message is a request for information on a counter associated with a service identifier. The charging engine may determine that the service identifier is not included in the data store and in response thereto generate a default response message that includes nominal data. The charging engine then sends the default response message to the policy engine to enable the policy engine to implement a default policy for allowing a data session between a user device and the wireless communication network.


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