US 10,542,413 B2Granted

Default roaming restrictions specific to roaming classes of service

AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

InventorsTiffany A. Moore, John I. Ayers, Michelle Mitchell, Anders H. Askerup, David C. Williamson

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Abstract

In some examples, a computer-readable medium includes instructions. The instructions may be executable by a processing resource to maintain a default roaming restrictions database that stores default roaming restriction attributes specific to roaming classes of service defined by a network operator. The default roaming restriction attributes may be specific to the roaming classes of service independent of mobile country code and mobile network code. The instructions may also be executable by the processing resource to perform a lookup into the default roaming restrictions database to identify a particular default roaming restriction attribute specific to a particular roaming class of service defined by the network operator.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

identifying a network connection to a mobile network, the network connection by a user equipment of a network subscriber that has roamed into a location of the mobile network;
determining a mobile country code (MCC) and mobile network code (MNC) associated with the mobile network;
determining whether any roaming class of service (COS) defined by a network operator has been assigned to the network subscriber;
when a particular roaming COS has been assigned to the network subscriber:
performing a lookup into a roaming restrictions database using a roaming COS identifier of the particular roaming COS and the MCC and the MNC of the mobile network;
when the lookup into the roaming restrictions database results in a lookup miss:
performing a lookup using the roaming COS identifier into a default roaming restrictions database storing default roaming restriction attributes specific to roaming classes of service according to roaming COS identifier fields to identify a default roaming restriction attribute specific to the roaming COS identifier of the particular roaming COS;
and
when the lookup into the default roaming restrictions database results in a lookup hit, applying the default roaming restriction attribute to the network connection of the network subscriber.

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A system comprising:

a memory storing:
a roaming restriction database to store roaming restriction attributes for roaming classes of service defined by a network operator according to a roaming class of service (COS) identifier field, a mobile country code (MCC) field, and a mobile network code (MNC) field;
and
a default roaming restrictions database to store default roaming restriction attributes specific to the roaming classes of services according to the roaming COS identifier field, but not the MCC field and not the MNC field;
and
a roaming determination engine to:
determine a particular roaming COS identifier for a network subscriber that has roamed to a location of and has established a network connection to a mobile network of the network operator through a user equipment;
determine that a lookup into the roaming restrictions database using the particular roaming COS identifier and an MCC and MNC of the mobile network results in a lookup miss;
responsive to the lookup miss, perform a lookup into the default roaming restrictions database using the particular roaming COS identifier of a particular roaming COS assigned to the network subscriber to identify a default roaming restriction attribute specific to the particular roaming COS identifier;
and
responsive to the lookup into the default roaming restrictions database resulting in a lookup hit, determine a particular default roaming restriction attribute specific to the particular roaming COS identifier and apply the particular default restriction attribute to the network connection of the network subscriber.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.