Patent ID: 11916761
Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A method for providing communication services as value added services (VASs) to subscribers of a communication service provider based on building a subscriber relationship data structure in a data store and referencing the data store to determine service groups of subscribers to deploy the VASs, comprising:
(a) building the subscriber relationship data structure in the data store by a subscriber relationship engine executing on a computer system, wherein the subscriber relationship data structure comprises a first layer which comprises a first VAS node corresponding to a first VAS offered by the network and a second layer comprising one or more service group nodes connected to the first VAS node and corresponding to one or more service groups;
(b) receiving a first request by the subscriber relationship engine for a first VAS offered by the communication service provider jointly from a first subscriber of the communication service provider belonging to a first subscription account and from a second subscriber of the communication service provider belonging to a second subscription account that is distinct from the first subscription account, the first subscription account is associated with a first family unit, and the second subscription account is associated with a second family unit;
(c) modifying the subscriber relationship data structure by the subscriber relationship engine such that the one or more service group nodes comprises a first service group node in which the first subscriber and the second subscriber are each identified as belonging to a corresponding first service group of the one or more service groups; and
(d) deploying the first VAS by a VAS provisioning engine executing on the computer system to a first user equipment (UE) associated with the first subscriber and a second UE associated with the second subscriber.