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System and method for limiting access to an IP-based wireless telecommunications network based on access point IP address and/or MAC address

  • US 9,826,453 B2
  • Filed: 07/03/2014
  • Issued: 11/21/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for ensuring communication quality for a mobile subscriber device (MS) on an IP-based wireless telecommunications network, the method comprising:

  • monitoring mobile registration requests for communication connections from the mobile subscriber device (MS),wherein communication connections from the MS are at least in part managed in the IP-based wireless telecommunications network,wherein the IP-based wireless telecommunications network has an IP-core,wherein each communication connection is associated with an entry point into the IP-based wireless telecommunications network, andwherein the entry point is identified by at least one of a Media Access Control (MAC) address or an Internet Protocol (IP) address;

    logging, at a network controller of the IP-based wireless telecommunications network, communication connections between the MS and multiple entry points during registration requests placed from the MS to the multiple entry points, including;

    a unique identifier of the certain MS locally stored by the certain MS, andunique identifiers of the multiple entry points;

    determining a number of ongoing communication connections that are associated with a specific entry point of the multiple entry points; and

    initiating a handoff from the IP-based wireless telecommunications network to a cellular telephony network of at least one ongoing communication connection associated with the specific entry point when the determined number of ongoing communication connections reaches a threshold limit,such that communication quality for each remaining communication connections in the IP-based wireless telecommunications network is improved.

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