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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2008
Gary Joel Rieschick, Louisburg, KS (US);
Jeremy R. Breau, Kansas City, MO (US);
Raymond Robert Doerr, Gardner, KS (US);
John Eric Belser, Olathe, KS (US);
Gary Joel Rieschick, Louisburg, KS (US);
Jeremy R. Breau, Kansas City, MO (US);
Raymond Robert Doerr, Gardner, KS (US);
John Eric Belser, Olathe, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method for maintaining a common billing identifier for a user session in a communication network is presented. In the method, an authentication node of the communication network receives a first authentication request associated with a user session. In response to the first authentication request, a billing identifier associated with the user session is transferred from the authentication node to a source of the first authentication request. A second authentication request associated with the same user session is received at the authentication node. In response to the second authentication request, the same billing identifier is transferred from the authentication node to a source of the second authentication request.