US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on July 7 for "IMS routing based on subscriber type" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,900, issued on July 7, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"IMS routing based on subscriber type" was invented by Mohammed Al-Mehdar (Bellevue, Wash.), Shujaur Mufti (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Khurram Ahmad Mirza (Bellevue, Wash.), Saqib Badar (Bellevue, Wash.) and Kalyan Kalepu (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network operator can partition network elements, including elements of an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) or Policy and Charging Rules Functions (PCRFs) into groups reserved for specific types of subscribers. When a user equipment (UE) registers with an IMS, elements of the IMS can contact a Home Subs...