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Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2024

Filed:

May. 09, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Paul Samuel Farag, Bellevue, WA (US);

Christopher John Spanton, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/126 (2021.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04W 12/122 (2021.01); H04W 12/128 (2021.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/126 (2021.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); H04W 12/122 (2021.01); H04W 12/128 (2021.01);
Abstract

A system can detect a change associated with a subscriber identity module (SIM) of a wireless device and generate a data record indicative of the change. In one example, the data record is stored on a digital ledger residing on a cryptographically secured and distributed peer-to-peer network (e.g., blockchain) that stores multiple data records of changes to SIMs of wireless devices. The system can determine whether a wireless device is impacted by malicious activity based on an age of its data record stored on the distributed ledger. For example, an aged data record indicates a lower probability that the wireless device was the subject of a SIM swap fraud whereas a newer data record indicates a higher probability of a SIM swap fraud.


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