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Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2023

Filed:

Nov. 29, 2021
Applicant:

T-mobile Innovations Llc, Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventor:

Dhananjay Indurkar, Overland Park, KS (US);

Assignee:

SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY, L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 68/00 (2009.01); H04M 15/00 (2006.01); H04W 88/16 (2009.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 68/005 (2013.01); H04M 15/66 (2013.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.02); H04W 88/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of data communication service to a wireless communication device, comprising receiving a first communication session initiation message by a communication gateway from a wireless communication device, wherein the first communication session initiation message provides no access point name (APN) or provides a default APN, based on the first communication session initiation message providing no APN or providing a default APN, sending the first communication session initiation message by the communication gateway to an APN allocation server, parsing the first communication session initiation message by the APN allocation server to determine a destination identity of the first communication session initiation message and to determine an identity of the wireless communication device, looking up a communication policy by the APN allocation server, looking up by the APN allocation server an APN associated with the communication policy, sending the APN by the APN allocation server to the wireless communication device.


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