Providing user location and time zone information for LTE/IMS charging
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsPriscilla Lau, Imtiyaz Shaikh, Mingxing Li
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Abstract
A method may include receiving a request from an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem, where the request relates to an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem service associated with user equipment. The method may further include obtaining location or time zone information associated with the user equipment from an access network; providing the obtained location or time zone information to the Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem; and providing the obtained location or time zone information to an on-line or off-line charging system.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- obtaining, by a mobility management entity device, time zone information for a user equipment;
- generating, by the mobility management entity device, a bearer message, the bearer message including the time zone information for the user equipment;
- and
- providing, by the mobility management entity device, the generated bearer message to a packet data network gateway associated with the user equipment.
A system comprising:
- a mobility management entity device to:
- obtain time zone information for a user equipment;
- generate a bearer message;
- include the time zone information in the generated bearer message;
- and
- provide the generated bearer message to a packet data network gateway associated with the user equipment.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a packet data network gateway, a first request associated with a bearer associated with a user equipment from a policy charging and rules function device;
- sending, by the packet data network gateway and in response to receiving the first request, a second request associated with the bearer to a mobility management entity device;
- receiving, by the packet data network gateway, time zone information associated with the user equipment from the mobility management entity device;
- and
- providing, by the packet data network gateway and in response to receiving the location or time zone information, the received time zone information to the policy charging and rules function device.
A system comprising:
- a packet data network gateway to:
- receive a first request associated with a bearer associated with a user equipment from a policy charging and rules function device;
- send, in response to receiving the first request, a second request relating to the bearer to a mobility management entity device;
- receive time zone information associated with the user equipment from the mobility management entity device;
- and
- provide, in response to receiving the location or time zone information, the received time zone information to the policy charging and rules function device.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by one or more devices, a request from an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem, where the request relates to an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem service associated with a user equipment;
- obtaining, by the one or more devices, time zone information for the user equipment;
- providing, by the one or more devices, the obtained time zone information to the Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem;
- and
- providing, by the one or more devices, the obtained time zone information to an online charging system, wherein the online charging system is configured to determine charges for a pre-paid service based on the Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem service and based on the obtained time zone information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.