19 results about "Network providers" patented technology

An apparatus configured to process, based on signaling from a network, parameters related to roaming to an Evolved Packet System (EPS) when a Fifth Generation System (5GS) is in a disaster condition, wherein a subscriber to a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) provider operating the 5GS has a 5G only roaming agreement with a PLMN operating the EPS, determine the 5GS is in the disaster condition and generate, for transmission to the EPS, an attach request to attach to the EPS during the disaster condition.

Approaches presented herein relate to human authentication in a computerized environment. In particular, challenge-response authentication can be performed where a requestor must submit a correct and valid response. An automated attack on such an environment may use a proxy network to cause a large number of malicious requests to be received to the environment, over a period of time, that appear to come from different sources. To make such an attack less appealing, challenge-response authentication can require an amount of additional data to be transmitted with each request, where that amount is small enough to not have a significant impact on a single request from a legitimate user, but large enough that the amount of data to be transmitted when aggregated across a large number of malicious requests will be significant, resulting in a high cost to the attacker if the proxy network provider charges based on data transmission.

Techniques for providing multi-operator core SASE solutions (e.g., for 5G SASE) are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, a process, and / or a computer program product for providing multi-operator core SASE solutions for 5G SASE includes receiving mobile network traffic, at a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) cloud network, via a service provider interconnect between a plurality of mobile service provider networks and the SASE cloud network; monitoring the mobile network traffic at the SASE cloud network from the plurality of mobile service provider networks for a tenant of the SASE cloud network provider; enforcing a security policy based on one or more parameters associated with the mobile network traffic, wherein the security policy is associated with the tenant of the SASE cloud network provider; and forwarding the secured data plane traffic from the SASE cloud network to its original destination if allowed by the security policy, and block or drop the data plane traffic from the SASE cloud network if not allowed by the security policy.

A method of providing network services by a network provider may include receiving, by a uniform policy module of a network provider, a user policy for providing network services to a user device. The method may include generating, by the uniform policy module, one or more network parameters associated with the user device and based at least in part on the user policy. The method may include receiving, by the uniform policy module, a request from a network access controller associated with the network provider to provide network services to the user device. The method may include transmitting, by the uniform policy module, at least some of one or more network parameters to the network access controller, such that the network access controller provides the network services to the user device according to the transmitted network parameters such that the request is fulfilled.

Systems and methods for qualifying external network facilities for a service location of a passive optical network (PON) of a PON service provider are presented. An exemplary method may include obtaining an indication of a service location of the PON and an indication of a set of required optical services at the service location; determining a group of candidate external network provider facilities for the service location of the PON based on geospatial coordinates of the service location and respective geospatial coordinates of the candidate external network provider facilities included in the group; selecting, from among the group of candidate external network provider facilities, an external network provider facility for providing the set of required optical services to the service location; and causing one or more optical services to be delivered to the service location via the selected external network provider facility.

Systems and methods for qualifying external network facilities for a service location of a passive optical network (PON) of a PON service provider are presented. An exemplary method may include obtaining an indication of a service location of the PON and an indication of a set of required optical services at the service location; determining a group of candidate external network provider facilities for the service location of the PON based on geospatial coordinates of the service location and respective geospatial coordinates of the candidate external network provider facilities included in the group; selecting, from among the group of candidate external network provider facilities, an external network provider facility for providing the set of required optical services to the service location; and causing one or more optical services to be delivered to the service location via the selected external network provider facility.

Systems and methods for qualifying external network facilities for a service location of a passive optical network (PON) of a PON service provider are presented. An exemplary method may include obtaining an indication of a service location of the PON and an indication of a set of required optical services at the service location; determining a group of candidate external network provider facilities for the service location of the PON based on geospatial coordinates of the service location and respective geospatial coordinates of the candidate external network provider facilities included in the group; selecting, from among the group of candidate external network provider facilities, an external network provider facility for providing the set of required optical services to the service location; and causing one or more optical services to be delivered to the service location via the selected external network provider facility.

An architecture plan for a software-defined traffic routing mesh network that includes multiple tiers of network nodes for routing network data traffic between one or more client devices and an external network may be received. Network nodes for the multiple tiers may be procured via a computing device associated with a mesh network provider or via procurement network nodes that are associated with different independent entities. Subsequently, a configuration file may be generated based at least on the architecture plan and node information of the procured network nodes. The configuration file is then implemented to configure the procured network nodes into the mesh network. In some instances, a configuration command in the configuration file may be modified when the configuration command fails during the implementation of the configuration file. In other instances, the network nodes in the software-defined traffic routing mesh network may be further modified following deployment for use.

Systems and methods are provided for managing network segments that span across geographic regions and / or other types of network divisions in a cloud-based network environment. A cloud-based network provider's geographically dispersed network infrastructure can be used as the core of a customer's private wide area network, and the customer can define isolated segments to which other networks (virtual private clouds, virtual private networks, etc.) can attach. Even if implemented across some or all of the same regions as other segments of the same customer and / or other customers - and using the same physical and / or virtual routing components as them - the various segments can remain logically isolated from one another.

Techniques are provided for validating edge computing devices using verification of network identifiers. One method comprises obtaining an ownership voucher for an edge device, wherein the ownership voucher comprises credentials of the edge device, wherein the edge device comprises an integrated circuit used by the edge device to access a network, such as a mobile network, and wherein the ownership voucher further comprises: (i) an identifier of the integrated circuit used to access the network and / or (ii) an identifier of the network; verifying, by a provider of the network: (i) the identifier of the integrated circuit and / or (ii) the identifier of the network; and automatically enabling the edge device to access the network based on a result of the verifying. The ownership voucher may comprise an identifier of a subscriber of the network and the provider of the network may verify the identifier of the subscriber of the network.

This document discloses a technique for measuring the speed experience value of a network provider's customers. The technique provides a better quality of experience (QoE) speed metric that characterizes the customer experience. The technique uses scheduling period statistics to replace or enhance proactive speed measurement. The technique further provides a novel method for measuring QoE speed metrics by adapting the measured network application speed experienced by the customer to meet customer needs. The disclosed QoE speed metric can be used to determine the degree of congestion in communication networks.

The present invention relates to methods and systems for processing a payment transaction, and particularly for providing settlement of payment transactions. The method comprises: receiving at a card payment network provider a payment authorisation request for a payment transaction between a payer and a payee initiated via a card payment network operated by the card payment network provider, the payment authorisation request comprising digital currency network details for a receiving party; comparing non-receiving party digital currency network details with the receiving party digital currency network details, in order to determine if there is a common digital currency network between the non-receiving party and the receiving party, wherein the card payment network provider is authorised to utilise the non-receiving party digital currency network details to initiate a digital currency transaction; and in the event that the common digital currency network can be determined, instructing at the card payment network provider, the payment to be settled via the common digital currency network.

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for capability exchange between a user equipment terminal and a network device, comprising: receiving a message from the network device, the message comprising network provider information for identifying a manufacturer of the network device; updating the capability configuration of the user equipment terminal based on the message; sending an update notification message to the network device to trigger a capability exchange program; and transmitting capability report information to the network device in the capability exchange procedure. The capability report information includes the updated capability configuration and user equipment terminal provider information for identifying at least a portion of the user equipment terminal chipset manufacturer.

Certain exemplary embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems and / or methods for distributing advertisements from a central advertisement network to one or more peripheral devices at a location via a local advertisement server. In certain exemplary embodiments, the local advertisement server within a location receives advertisements from the central advertisement network and rebroadcasts them to peripheral devices within that location. Advertising information may be tracked and reported, e.g., for accounting, revenue-sharing, and / or other purposes in certain exemplary embodiments. Thus, in certain exemplary embodiments, the distribution of advertisements is provided to peripherals via a non-web- and non-PC-dependent network. Moreover, in certain exemplary embodiments, reporting and advertising related communications are substantially bi-directional regardless of device type. Certain exemplary embodiments provide revenue sharing among some or all of the central advertising network provider, the proprietors of locations, operators tasked with maintaining the local ad server and / or the peripheral devices, etc.

A method comprises writing, by a Network Exposure Function (NEF) to a memory, a first Internet Protocol (IP) address to a whitelist that is of the communication device and that is associated with an enterprise subscriber of a network provider; receiving, by the NEF, the API service request from the AF based on an invocation of an API, wherein the API service request comprises a second IP address of the communication device; comparing, by the NEF, the first IP address with the second IP address; obtaining, by the NEF, a rating group for the API service request based on comparing the first IP address with the second IP address; sending, by the NEF to a charging function (CHF), an indicator for indicating the rating group of the API service request; and sending, by the NEF, a second indicator to the CHF indicating the API service request is completed.

Embodiments an enterprise leasing from an access on-demand (AoD) provider access to radio unit (RU) and spectrum having specific bandwidth. The enterprise instantiates some of their network functions (NFs) to reside in the AoD private cloud and other NFs in a private or public cloud provided by a could service provider of their choice. The enterprise leases their desired NFs, spectrum and transport (all as a service) to build their 5G network. The system of the AoD provider also offers the enterprises transport / connectivity to other public / private clouds or to the Internet and offers management services to the enterprises.

Systems, methods, and devices for providing subscriber-specific dynamic content by one or more server computing device in an operator network. The server computing device may configure a gateway device for at least one user local area network (LAN) to access a dynamic content service, receive a dynamic content request from the gateway device, access data sources supporting the dynamic content service to retrieve information about a user device, and determine whether any service disruption condition has been met. If a service disruption condition has been met, the server computing device may generate subscriber-specific dynamic content based on the service disruption condition met, and send the generated subscriber-specific dynamic content to the gateway device for presenting to the user device.

Techniques for managing a service plan by a telecommunication network provider are described herein. The telecommunication network provider can implement a billing system to establish, update, or otherwise determine a service plan that is based on a user identity rather than a specific device identifier. The service plan can include a billing rate for multiple devices to connect to a telecommunications network without requiring that the service plan identify device information for each of the multiple devices. The billing system can receive user information from a device, authenticate a user identity, and analyze data in a service plan to determine whether to generate a connection credential for connecting the device to the telecommunications network.

The present disclosure relates to a method for facilitating payment transactions by a payment accepting device embedded with a near field communication (NFC) chip. The NFC chip may be pre-configured with merchant data for transactions with a merchant. A user device may use an NFC-enabled user device to read and retrieve the merchant data pre-configured in the NFC chip and initiate the payment transaction. In some non-limiting embodiments or aspects, the merchant may dynamically configure the NFC chip prior to each transaction. Thereafter, the transaction may be processed by a payment network provider. The present disclosure enables customers to conduct transactions without the need to share any customer-sensitive information with the merchant's PoS device, thereby preventing data theft and enabling customers to make payments using devices associated with the customers. The disclosure also does not require expensive PoS devices, and provides the merchant with a low-cost and economical method to accept payments.