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Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Robert Engelhart, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/24 (2018.01); H04W 4/12 (2009.01); H04W 48/02 (2009.01); H04L 67/146 (2022.01); H04W 8/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/24 (2013.01); H04L 67/146 (2013.01); H04W 4/12 (2013.01); H04W 8/18 (2013.01); H04W 48/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method performed by a charging system includes receiving a message related to delivery of a service to an end user device. The charging system searches a local storage system to find a session identifier associated with the message. In response to determining that the session identifier is not at the local storage system, a backend storage system is queried for subscriber account data associated with the session identifier. As a result, despite the absence of the session identifier and associated subscriber account data at the local storage system, the charging system can grant service units for the end user device based on the subscriber account data retrieved from the backend storage system.


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