Patent ID: 11877158
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. In a network core of a fifth generation (5G) wireless network comprising a plurality of triggering functions and a data store, a method for cleaning up hanging lawful interception (LI) resources, the method comprising:
causing each triggering function among the plurality of triggering functions on the network core of the 5G wireless network to send an update request to the data store in response to being notified about a failed triggering function within the plurality of triggering functions, wherein each update request comprises a request to change ownership of an auditing record corresponding to the failed triggering function;
selecting a triggering function of the plurality of triggering functions as a new owner of the auditing record, the auditing record corresponding to the failed triggering function, the new owner of the auditing record being selected based on a match between a claimant attribute in the auditing record and a claimant field in the update request sent by the triggering function; and
causing the new owner of the auditing record to send at least one request to a triggered point of interception (POI) to remove an LI resource corresponding to the failed triggering function.