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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2015
Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Wen Xue, Overland Park, KS (US);
Lei Zhu, Overland Park, KS (US);
Chidambaram C. Pavanasam, Overland Park, KS (US);
Saravana Velusamy, Olathe, KS (US);
Ramkumar Swaminathan, Olathe, KS (US);
Anthony C. Wells, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method and system to help better manage resources when a mobile terminal is roaming while within a home-carrier coverage hole or while otherwise threshold close to home carrier coverage. In accordance with the disclosure, a mobile terminal's home carrier will determine that the mobile terminal is being served by a roaming carrier's cell site that is threshold close to a home carrier's cell site, and the home carrier will responsively assign to the mobile terminal an IP address that the home carrier is configured to block.