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