Patent ID: 9270772
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, via an application programming interface associated with a device presence proxy, an application inquiry requesting network-related device presence data for at least one mobile device, the application inquiry provided from a second application programming interface; responsive to receiving the application inquiry, identifying via the device presence proxy, one or more network infrastructure nodes associated with providing network service to the at least one mobile device; requesting and obtaining via the device presence proxy from the identified one or more network infrastructure nodes, network data for the at least one mobile device, the network data associated with the network service provided to the at least one mobile device, and wherein the obtaining the network data includes communicating with a first network infrastructure node to identify a second network infrastructure node that is capable of providing the network-related device presence data; determining a response to the application inquiry requesting the network-related device presence data based upon the network data; and providing the response comprising the network-related device presence data via the application programming interface associated with the device presence proxy to the second application programming interface; wherein the second application programming interface obtains the network data exposed by the identified one or more network infrastructure nodes via the application programming interface.