Patent ID: 11871214
Assignee: AERIS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A system for automated traffic flow control using domain name for one or more devices enabled for connectivity over cellular network, comprising:
one or more devices enabled for connectivity;
a service profile associated with each of the one or more devices;
a protocol data analyzer;
a database; and
any one of: a policy and charging rule enforcement function (PCEF), a traffic control function (TCF) packet processor, or a firewall,
wherein the service profile includes: domain name information for one or more domain names that the device is allowed to access, denied to access or a combination thereof;
wherein the protocol data analyzer:
associates the at least one domain name with one or more internet protocol (IP) addresses,
monitors each of the one domains for change in the one or more IP addresses for that domain, wherein the monitors each of the one or more domains for change in the one or more IP addresses for that domain includes determining if there has been a change in the one or more IP addresses associated with that domain name using domain name system (DNS) look up and automatically updating the one or more IP addresses in the service profile for the one or more devices; and
updates the one or more IP addresses of the domain name in the database if any change in the one or more IP addresses for that domain is found; and

wherein:
a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) notifies the PCEF of the change in the service profile for the one or more devices in the PCRF,
traffic control function (TCF) policy and charging control (PCC) database notifies the TCF packet processor of the change in the service profile for the one or more devices in the TCF packet processor, or
firewall controller notifies the firewall of the change in the service profile for the one or more devices in the firewall processor, when there is a change to the IP addresses of the domain name in the database.