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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2022
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Jerry Steben, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Samirkumar Patel, Middlesex, NJ (US);
Ye Huang, San Ramon, CA (US);
Helen Osias Eglip, Sammamish, WA (US);
Anthony Mathias George, Springville, UT (US);
Parry Cornell Booker, Sunnyvale, TX (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
In the various embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed for determining the location of User Equipment (UE) in a network and for authorizing access to content based on said location. An aspect of the present disclosure is a method including receiving, by a Content Authorization Function (CAF), a request to provide a UE type of a UE and a physical location associated with the UE, the request including a UE Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with the UE; querying, by the CAF, a Network Function (NF), to provide the UE type and associated physical location, the query including the UE IP address; receiving, by the CAF from the NF, the UE type and associated physical location; and transmitting the UE type and associated physical location.