Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Preventing roaming of a home subscriber in a visited network restricted for roaming
- Patent Title (中): 阻止访问网络中的归属用户漫游,限制漫游
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Application No.: US13264052Application Date: 2009-04-22
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Publication No.: US08554207B2Publication Date: 2013-10-08
- Inventor: Franco Foresti , Teerapong Sittigultorn
- Applicant: Franco Foresti , Teerapong Sittigultorn
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- International Application: PCT/EP2009/054795 WO 20090422
- International Announcement: WO2010/121654 WO 20101028
- Main IPC: H04W8/02
- IPC: H04W8/02

Abstract:
At present, there are operators which perform a Location Update procedure for a subscriber via Local Number Server under invoice agreement with the subscriber himself, and even where the subscriber is roaming in an area without roaming agreement with the subscriber's operator. In this situation, the subscriber's operator loses revenues because it has no roaming agreements with the operator where the subscriber is roaming, whilst the latter gets revenues from the subscriber by using the subscriber's operator Subscriber Identity Module or newer operator's card. To avoid this situation, there is provided a home location server arranged to determine whether roaming restrictions apply for a home subscriber before providing authentication data for said home subscriber and either deny the authentication data for the home subscriber to the requesting entity or apply a charging or billing for the provision of the authentication data for said home subscriber.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120040667A1 MEANS AND METHOD TO PREVENT ROAMING OF A HOME SUBSCRIBER IN A VISITED NETWORK RESTRICTED FOR ROAMING Public/Granted day:2012-02-16
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