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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2014
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04W 8/18 (2009.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/183 (2013.01); H04L 29/1282 (2013.01); H04L 29/12132 (2013.01); H04L 29/12188 (2013.01); H04L 61/1552 (2013.01); H04L 61/1588 (2013.01); H04L 61/6013 (2013.01); H04L 65/1016 (2013.01); H04L 65/1073 (2013.01);
Abstract
In an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network in which multiple subscriber data servers are deployed with partitioned subscription data for users, a subscriber location function (SLF) is used to proxy queries to a subscriber data server (such as an HSS) in which subscription data for a user can be found. The SLF receives a query for the subscriber data server, looks up the address of appropriate subscriber data server and proxies the query to the appropriate subscriber data server. Preferably, the SLF is co-located with a subscriber data server.