User equipment (ue) identification in a wireless communication network

A method of operating a wireless communication system to serve wireless user devices based on wireless user device Identifiers (IDs), the method comprising:

• a data recovery system detecting a loss of synchronization between data repositories, and in response, identifying the wireless user device IDs that were allocated to the data repositories during the loss of synchronization;
• the data recovery system reallocating the identified wireless user device IDs to the data repositories;
• that data repositories synchronizing the reallocated wireless user device IDs across the data repositories;
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• at least one wireless network element serving wireless data communications to the wireless user devices based on the reallocated and synchronized wireless user device IDs.

A wireless communication system to serve wireless data communications to wireless user devices based on wireless user device Identifiers (IDs), the wireless communication system comprising:

• a data recovery system to detect a loss of synchronization between Uniform Data Repositories (UDRs), and in response, identify the wireless user device IDs that were allocated to the UDRs during the loss of synchronization;
• the data recovery system to reallocate the identified wireless user device IDs to the UDRs;
• the UDRs to synchronize the reallocated wireless user device IDs across the UDRs;
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• at least one wireless network element to serve the wireless data communications to the wireless user devices based on the reallocated and synchronized wireless user device IDs.