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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2014
Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Alex Shusterman, Vienna, VA (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
Examples disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and software to manage communication paths in a communication network. In one example, a method of operating a mobility management entity to manage communication paths includes transferring a plurality of general packet radio service tunneling protocol (GTP) messages to a plurality of packet data network gateways, and identifying one or more response messages from the plurality of packet data network gateways. The method further includes determining transaction success information for each packet data network gateway in the plurality of packet data network gateways based on the one or more response messages, and altering communication path allocation based on the transaction success information.