Provisioning a telephony network in response to an electronic device attaching to the network
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsPhilippe Wieczorek, Pierre-Yves Descombes, Michael R. Kelly
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Abstract
A technique includes, in response to an electronic device attaching to a telephony network, selecting a telephony number from a plurality of available telephony numbers to assign to the electronic device for a given session in which the electronic device is attached to the telephony network and provisioning the telephony network based at least in part on the assigned telephony number.
Claims15
A method comprising:
- in response to an electronic device attaching to a telephony network, selecting a telephony number from a plurality of available telephony numbers to assign to the electronic device for a given session in which the electronic device is attached to the telephony network and provisioning the telephony network based at least in part on the assigned telephony number;
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- provisioning a home location register with information pertaining to the plurality of available telephony numbers prior to the electronic device attaching to the telephony network.
An article comprising at least one machine-readable storage medium storing instructions that upon execution by at least one processor cause said at least one processor to:
- in response to an electronic device attaching to a telephony network, select a telephony number from a plurality of available telephony numbers provisioned in a home location register to assign to the electronic device for a given session in which the electronic device is attached to the telephony network and provision the telephony network based at least in part on the assigned telephony number.
A telephony system comprising:
- a home location register associated with a telephony network and provisioned with a plurality of use profiles containing data indicative of a plurality of telephony numbers and a plurality of subscriber identifiers;
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- a processor-based manager to, in response to an electronic device attaching to the telephony network, select a telephony number from the plurality of telephony numbers to assign to the electronic device for a given session in which the electronic device is attached to the telephony network and provision the telephony network based at least in part on the assigned telephony number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.