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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2020
Applicant:
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Inventors:
James Edward Oliver, Alabaster, AL (US);
Ming Mei Lee, Morganville, NJ (US);
Debra Sparks, Birmingham, AL (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 11/00 (2006.01); H04M 15/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/24 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 15/57 (2013.01); H04M 15/31 (2013.01); H04M 15/62 (2013.01); H04M 15/63 (2013.01); H04W 4/24 (2013.01); H04M 2215/32 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various methods for a 3GPP defined Charging and Collection Function are employed that may use a microservices approach. The microservice approach may decompose the function of the network elements into component level functions that may be deployed as separate functional elements.