Imsi mcc-mnc best matching searching
AssigneeAlcatel-Lucent Canada Inc.
InventorsLui Chu Yeung, Haiqing H. Ma
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Abstract
Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method of matching a user roaming request with the users home network, the method comprising: receiving a user request that includes an international mobile subscriber identification (IMSI); extracting mobile country code (MCC) from the IMSI; extracting the next M digits from the IMSI as the mobile network code (MNC); searching a MCC-MNC database for the extracted MCC-MNC; if the extracted MCC-MNC is found in the MCC-MNC database, then associate the user request with an identified roaming partner.
Claims18
A method of matching a user roaming request with the users home network, the method comprising:
- receiving a user request that includes an international mobile subscriber identification (IMSI);
- extracting mobile country code (MCC) from the IMSI;
- extracting the next M digits from the IMSI as the mobile network code (MNC);
- searching a MCC-MNC database for the extracted MCC-MNC;
- if the extracted MCC-MNC is found in the MCC-MNC database, then associate the user request with an identified roaming partner.
A tangible and non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions for execution by a network device for matching a user roaming request with the users home network, the tangible and non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising:
- instructions for receiving a user request that includes an international mobile subscriber identification (IMSI);
- instructions for extracting mobile country code (MCC) from the IMSI;
- instructions for extracting the next M digits from the IMSI as the mobile network code (MNC);
- instructions for searching a MCC-MNC database for the extracted MCC-MNC;
- instructions for if the extracted MCC-MNC is found in the MCC-MNC database, then associate the user request with an identified roaming partner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.